According to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican Party's “primary goal” for the next 1.5 years is not to reduce federal spending, pay down the ridiculous federal debt or cut taxes, the party's three chief public policy themes.
No, Rohrabacher is arguing that “getting America on the right path” has to be temporarily set aside to accomplish a higher calling: the defeat of President Barack Obama.
“Our primary goal in the next 18 months is to ensure that President Obama is not re-elected, and second to that is we win a Republican majority in the Senate,” the Costa Mesa Republican
wrote in a Monday comment on Red County.
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Based on that strategy, the congressman–who skipped Vietnam War duty but constantly hails himself as a “patriot”–isn't motivated to help the economy improve while Obama is in the White House. This leads to an important question. Is sabotaging America–even for 18 months–patriotic?
Rohrabacher rationalizes his strategy by claiming that conservative principles can't be enacted “unless the American people reject Obama in the next election” and that the GOP must not allow a government shutdown because, he believes, that would guarantee Obama a second term in office.
According to Rohrabacher, the 1995 federal government shutdown was perceived by the public as a Republican-caused mess that ensured the re-election of President Bill Clinton.
But Red County's Chip Hanlon, a longtime Orange County conservative activist, says Rohrabacher's spin is “a bummer.”
Hanlon cites
THIS article by
Erick Erickson as proof of the myth.
Still, Rohrabacher won't budge. Not surprisingly, he's belligerent. He dismissed Hanlon as a “heartbroken blogger.”
The next threat of a federal government shutdown is Friday.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
