The Happy Party

[babylonsister]

:puke: I know, Byron York is a dork and not to be believed. But I couldn't resist, because I do pause to wonder what exactly they're happy about. The tanking of the economy? The misery many Americans are feeling? :eyes:

The Happy Party

By Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent 2/8/09


They took a beating in November, but now, in the stimulus fight, Republicans are smiling again.

You see it all over Capitol Hill, in the hallways, the hearing rooms, the gathering spots. Republicans, coming off a devastating, across-the-board electoral defeat, are … happy. Being in opposition, after eight years of a Republican presidency and 12 years of GOP rule in Congress, suits many of them just fine.

It’s not that they were glad to lose. There are a lot of indignities involved in being the minority, and a pretty small minority at that. But talk to Republican lawmakers and insiders these days, and they speak as if an enormous weight has been lifted from their shoulders. Some of that weight was named George W. Bush, but in a larger sense, Republicans are relieved to be free of the burden of running things.

“We weren’t very happy with the results of the election, and on through the inaugural, but I guarantee you, I’ve never seen the spirit of Republicans as high as it was at the GOP retreat,” Arizona Rep. John Shadegg told me, referring to the House Republican getaway a week ago at the Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va.

more...

http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/Fired-up-by-the-stimulus-fight-the-GOP-is-a-happy-party-again-39289272.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. I'm increasingly of the mindset that to be a Republican is to be truly

sick in the head. When a Senator from Oklahoma (Inhofe) is excited because a failing economic package might put them back into power, you know they're all just sick fucks.

[TBF]

2. Of course they are happy - they got away with stealing $7B from the taxpayers...

and now someone else has to clean up the mess they left. Assholes.