Too Little, Too Late.

7:51 pm in Uncategorized by JetProvost

Watching Bobby Jindal decry the anti-intellectual trend of the Republican party reminds of when Jeb Bush spoke up a few months ago to say that he was very disappointed in the lack of bipartisan cooperation between Obama and Congressional Republicans. Yes, I guess it’s better that they say these things, but where were they the last four years? Jeb Bush’s point about compromise and cooperation would actually have been useful during the debt ceiling and health care debates, and Jindal’s new-found voice of reason would have been nice before he had signed bills to permit and fund the teaching of creationism in Louisiana.

Forgive my eye rolling, but if they really wanted to get serious, they should have said so back when it would have mattered. That they lacked the courage to do so then and only do so now says enough about them.

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Tags: bush, Jindal, Louisiana, obama, politics
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It’s not a gift if you’re entitled to it.

Isn’t the whole “gifts” thing a perfect example of the sense of entitlement that has come over the American right. When they explicitly vote for the candidate who will give them a tax cut, that’s not a gift, it’s a matter of patriotism. When Democrats vote for candidates who propose programs they benefit from, it’s a gift and bribery. It’s like the right thinks the largess they receive isn’t a gift because they are entitled to it, but Democrats are entitled to nothing and therefore receive only “gifts.”

To read this and earlier posts, visit my blog at http://rationalpersuasion.blogspot.com/.

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