"We stopped billions of dollars in frivolous spending." -- House GOP whip stepping down (health care, Congress)

[walidm]

In the letter to his Republican colleagues, he tells them that in January 2007, as Democrats took control of Congress, he sat down and wrote himself a letter. It sat unopened on his desk until yesterday.
Blunt’s nearly two-year-old letter contained his thoughts on the 2006 midterm election failure, he writes, and his ideas on how to jump-start the conservative movement. "I wrote that our ideas didn’t lose the midterm election, we did," Blunt writes to colleagues. "I also wrote that, were we not successful in recapturing the majority in 2008, it was my intention to serve only two years as minority whip."Source

When it rains, it pours...

[Mike from back east]

He drank too much Kool Aid and now he has a tummy ache, boo hoo.

Here's one of the amazing aspects of his letter: "...Blunt, in his letter, catalogs some House Republican victories this year: upholding a veto on an expansion of children's health insurance, forcing Democrats to accept offshore drilling and backing the now widely praised "surge" in Iraq while the war was deeply unpopular...."

From his letter, we can see those vaunted GOP values:
- Let kids go without health care (GOP kids have health care, other kids can eat crap and die, especially if they aren't white).
- Focusing on oil instead of ways to get us OFF of oil; of course, the oil lobby pays very well, we must keep sucking that nipple.
- Lets throw more lives at a rat-hole of a war that's done NOTHING to make us safer. Al Queda is in Pakistan/Afghanistan, not Iraq.

With GOP values like these, is it any wonder they got their ass handed to them in the last two elections?

[walidm]

Originally Posted by Mike from back east

He drank too much Kool Aid and now he has a tummy ache, boo hoo.

Here's one of the amazing aspects of his letter: "...Blunt, in his letter, catalogs some House Republican victories this year: upholding a veto on an expansion of children's health insurance, forcing Democrats to accept offshore drilling and backing the now widely praised "surge" in Iraq while the war was deeply unpopular...."

From his letter, we can see those vaunted GOP values:
- Let kids go without health care (GOP kids have health care, other kids can eat crap and die, especially if they aren't white).
- Focusing on oil instead of ways to get us OFF of oil; of course, the oil lobby pays very well, we must keep sucking that nipple.
- Lets throw more lives at a rat-hole of a war that's done NOTHING to make us safer. Al Queda is in Pakistan/Afghanistan, not Iraq.

With GOP values like these, is it any wonder they got their ass handed to them in the last two elections?

Odd that he didn't share the letter, just highlights....c-ya. He knew he wasn't going to get anywhere, his brand just got smashed.