South Carolina’s Republican Chairman Is Dreaming
TIME TO SNAP BACK TO REALITY, COMRADE DAWSON
FITSNews – February 10, 2008 – Ever since football ended (editor’s note: #%&*), we’ve had to come up with new ways to doze off on Sunday afternoons. Like reading the guest commercials editorials over at The Palmetto Scoop, for example.
Last week it was U.S. Rep Joe Wilson providing our napping accoutrement, today it was SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson making our eyelids heavy.
Dawson’s Scoop infomercial – assuming you stayed awake long enough to read it – would have you believe that everything is just fine and dandy in good ole’ SCGOP-land.
Of course, we all know better. Republicans got out-voted big time in the recent South Carolina presidential primaries, and while there may be a few national figures left defending the party’s fiscal conservative mantle, the same cannot be said for the closet donkeys running the show here in the Palmetto People’s Republic.
Yet to hear Chairman Dawson tell it, the fractured and fiscally-reprehensible SCGOP is a Reagan-esque tax-cutting machine:
We are proud of Governor Mark Sanford and our Republican legislative leadership in Columbia who embody our state Party platform that calls for “sound fiscal management that provides effective and efficient government with a minimum amount of taxation.†(Page 13, SCGOP Platform) They continue to fight for limited government that is a responsible steward of our tax dollars – slashing income taxes and property taxes and eliminating the sales tax on groceries.
Wait a minute … “sound fiscal management?” “Responsible steward of our tax dollars?”
Is Dawson running for Mayor of Oppositeville?
We’re gonna go out on a limb here and guess that if you look up “slashing” in the dictionary, it doesn’t say anything about passing a revenue neutral tax swap (i.e. trading property tax relief for a sales tax hike) and implementing a glorified social welfare program (i.e. the grocery and lower income tax bracket reductions). That’s “dubious diction” under any circumstances, but it gets even less believable when you lump on the $1.5 billion in new spending these jokers blew last year – part of a 41% increase in government over the last three years.
Besides, even if these bozos weren’t blowing through cash like MC Hammer, none of that tinkering around the edges of our non-competitive tax code has done a damn thing to create new jobs in this state.
We appreciate the tough spot Chairman Mao ZeDawson is in, we really do. He’s got a boneheaded governor trying to run for Vice President sort of in charge of one branch of government, and a bunch of not-so fiscal liberals running another. And that’s before you get to the third branch, whose left-leaning Queen Bee just wants to give everybody fat raises (including herself) and buy them some drinks to thank them for all their hard work.
Here’s the real record, people. Unemployment is through the roof (editor’s note: still), income levels are flat (editor’s note: still), nobody’s got health insurance (editor’s note: still), crime is rampant (editor’s note: still) and we’ve got the worst education system in the history of Western civilization (editor’s note: yup, still).
And on top of all that, now these buffoons want to pass a law saying you can’t criticize anybody who’s an incumbent?
Yeah … right.
Wake up, Comrade Dawson.
Comments
By Holly on February 10th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Sorry for a cross post…but just had to…
Dawson chants the mantra with gusto and pride, but in the end it is still a shallow reading of an old but venerable book. Dawson’s version is political, not philosophical. He may use the required terms to sound conservative, but conservatism at its roots is about people, and his rote recitation of the mantra is void of compassion or even acknowledgment that the people are paramount.
His way is decisive, unaccountable, and ineffective. His way has been to grab glory and power for a few at the expense of the rest of us. He measures his worth by comparing himself to the Democrats…a low bar to be sure.
Katon’s GOP has lost it will to make a difference. The words are there, but the actions are not. Shallow men with reptilian desires of self-promotion are in charge and have been for some time. The GOP has lost its way, and the sooner we are though with the likes of Katon Dawson and Mark Sanford, the better.
By Larry on February 10th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Great post Will.
Keep it up…the GOP needs commentary like this!
By Harden Gervais on February 10th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
The law wasn’t saying you couldn’t criticize anybody, it’s just that your friends have to show who is funding them. I once heard Republicans talking about disclosure as the alternitive to McCain-Feingold. I guess that’s gone by the wayside.
By Larry on February 10th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I have heard rummors of, shall we say, friendly contracts, resulting from the debates.
Anybody know which of the republican “insiders” took the GOP to the bank?
By Gillon on February 11th, 2008 at 10:27 am
This post provides a good argument to vote Democratic in the fall. The Democrats are who they are, and I always thought intellectual honesty was as good a virtue as any for a politician to have. But hey, maybe Republicans are finally catching on to that–with the crash and burn of Mitt Romney and the rise of John McCain.
By Gal Leo on February 11th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Gillon:
Hillary runs as a centrist when she is speaking to moderate crowds, she feeds unbridled socialism to union listeners, and she touts her fiscal conservativism when she talks to her Wall Street friends.
Edwards…a conservative southern Democrat his entire life (try being a raving liberal in a mill town)…ran as Karl Marx with better hair.
Barack is running as….. nothing. Change? Hope? Serioulsy, please tell me five of his policy positions.
You call that intellectual honesty?
I will join you all day on criticizing the GOP on talking out of both sides of its mouth ….but might accuse you of the same thing when you claim the Dems aren’t just as bad.
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