A Boston Tea Party …(Street Cred)

The art of charades was once again on display in the federal government this week. The federal highway bill was signed into law this week. A government with Republican (I use this term specifically) control of the house, senate, and executive branch passed a $286 billion with $24 billion in pork projects.

This is a perfect example of the difference between a Republican and a conservative Republican. Republicans call $24 billion in pork economic stimulus while true conservative Republicans call $24 billion in pork unnecessary and wasteful. Notice the different connotation that goes with economic stimulus. It tells us we should be thankful for our politicians wasting our tax money. Imagine if a Democratic controlled government had passed such an outrageously pork filled bill the Republicans would be screaming. The hypocrisy should not be shocking. It became evident shortly after the “contract with America” that Republicans were no longer conservative but instead would operate in a manner that keeps them in power.

It is time to let Republicans like those in Washington and Republican cheeleaders like Sean Hannity and Scott Hennen who use the word “conservative” for “street cred” that they no longer fool us. They use the word conservative to help catagorize themselves into a certain "niche". Spokespeople for the Republican party have no link to true conservatism. They have become so intertwined with their own party to harshly criticize them. A true conservative would demand that the money spent on pork be returned to its owner, the American taxpayer. The reaction these spokespeople should have had should have been vomiting on the air. Pork spending should make every true conservative violently ill but instead is passed of as economic stimulus by those whose loyalty is to party rather than conviction. This type of Republican is as close to a true conservative as Kennedy and Kerry are to being true Catholics, only in name. The next time you run across a Republican pretending to be a conservative……….tell him/her to F*** OFF!