I can’t quite manage to put my finger on it. After 28
years as an allegedly highly respected Republican Congressional staffer,
including time with then Congressman John Kasich, Mike Lofgren walked away from
Washington, penned a lefty friendly manifesto that popped up on liberal
whack-a-mole Bill Moyers website and has since made a career out of being a
darling on the left, popping up regularly in places like the Daily Kooks, HuffPo,
AlterNet and entertaining the eight readers of Salon.com.
What I can’t quite grasp is, is it the fact that
Lofgren barely managed to register a blip in 28 years on the Hill among the
Republican political animals or did someone manage to piss him off by wizzing
in his Corn Flakes? Now Lofgren earns his keep by peddling all too familiar
liberal clap trap to fix the countries problems.
I find it laughable on its face that Lofgren embraces
liberal yet bemoans the death of the Constitution! Anyone with an iota of
common sense can point to liberal policy and liberal jurisprudence that has
decimated the Constitution. Lofgren mines familiar tropes like George W Bush
was in over his head when he became President; apparently Barack Obama was well
versed enough after nearly two years in the Senate to be the leader of the free
world. Like I said, laughable at best.
Lofgren has served up a litany of liberal red meat in
the form of a series of reforms he feels will “put America back on the right
track.” Among them are things like the elimination of private money from public
elections; wonder if that would include union dues? The downsizing of the
military and intelligence systems; because that worked so well in the lead up
to the events of 9/11. Adopt single payer healthcare system; because that has
worked so well for places like Canada and Britain…just ask the folks streaming
south from our neighbors to the north in pursuit of timely healthcare. I could
go on, but what would be the point of recapping these tried and failed
policies?
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