Episode V: The Republicans Strike Back

First thing, congrats to Amanda Carpenter, who I steal a lot of my stuff from (properly credited, of course), on her new gig at the Washington Times.

If you’re like me, and if you’re reading this, I can only assume we at least share similar political leanings, hearing the media say that the Republicans only say no and have no ideas, while ignoring all the Republicans who have plenty of ideas, makes you want to wild out and get violent. Contrary to popular opinion, having an idea that differs from what Dear Leader thinks doesn’t mean you don’t have one.

Apparently the Republicans are mad as hell aboot this too and aren’t going to take it any more. How mad are they? They held not one but TWO different press conferences to say so…

House and Senate Republican Conference Chairmen Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R.-Tenn.) held a session with reporters on the House side of the Capitol to unveil their messaging Wednesday. Pence said that “with some degree of cooperation” between Republicans in the House and Senate, the GOP would aggressively “challenge assumptions and content of the president’s budget.” According to the plan, Senate Republicans would be tasked with crafting alternatives to specific liberal proposals, like cap-and-trade, while House Republicans would concentrate on offering an alternative to President Obama’s budget.

Less than an hour after their presser ended, a group of House and Senate Republican gathered on the Senate side of the Capitol for another press event to criticize the president’s plan to create jobs. Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was leading the charge and said he had a way the GOP could create up to 2 million jobs “without dropping taxpayer dollars out of airplanes.” Three House Republicans stood beside him, along with Sen. James Inhofe (R.-Okla) to promote a “No Cost Stimulus” bill to open more jobs in the energy sector by lifting restrictions in the Outer Continental Shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, among other things.

So, I’ll guess we’ll see where this goes. One one hand, these all sound like gangbuster ideas for me. One the other hand, had I not have been on Twitter and caught the link to this article, I would have no idea any of this happened.

We shall see.

UPDATE: BOO-YAH!

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