WestVirginiaRebel Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Breitbart:WASHINGTON (AP) - Their ranks swollen after the last election, Republican governors from Florida to Alaska are undermining President Barack Obama's agenda at every turn ahead of the Democrat's 2012 re-election campaign. Some are rejecting federal money for high-speed rail. Many are fighting the president's health care law. And several are going after the Democratic Party's bedrock constituency, pushing laws that would weaken the power of unions. Not that any Republican governor will acknowledge that this is politics at play—even if it is. "Republican governors are doing what they said they would as candidates," insisted Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who led the GOP's campaign efforts last fall and may seek the party's presidential nomination. "All this goes back to our commitment in the last election that we're going to get control of spending for the sake of the taxpayers." "It's not a conspiracy. It's not that we're doing this for a political reason to go after the president," added first term Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. "We have fundamental disagreements. We have different perspectives." But left unsaid in interviews with governors attending this weekend's National Governors Association meeting was this: Republicans, particularly in places with many electoral votes, like the Midwest, are fully aware that stymieing Obama's plans in the states could weaken him just as he tries to make the case to the country that he should get a second term. ________Darn those Republican governors, actually doing what they were elected to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Well good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCJim Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Let's pray they don't cave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Let's pray they don't cave They will if the majority of Americans cave...so I am praying that Americans won't cave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCJim Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Amen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCJim Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Let's pray they don't cave They will if the majority of Americans cave...so I am praying that Americans won't cave. Not so much the American people caving but as how the media will say they are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Let's pray they don't cave They will if the majority of Americans cave...so I am praying that Americans won't cave. Not so much the American people caving but as how the media will say they are Yup. I think most folks are smarter than that. At least I can hope can't I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saltbag Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Wow, it's government from the states upward, as originally intended. How refreshing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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