I think it's a fair question. As Warren Buffet says - we're in an economic war and congress needs to stop playing politics and act like this is a time of war and not just attack the commander-in-chief. They are not bringing any solutions, just bashing and sticking to their guns when clearly the American people have decided this is too serious and has given the Republicans in congress a spankingly bad approval. Republicans are crying about the biggest deficit ever - but do they realize their leader had created the previous biggest defict ever during boom years? We face an economy collapsing and in need of serious life support - with solutions far beyong a tax cut or small tweaks the republicans are proposing. Yet they stick to their failed ideas that got us into this mess. If the greatest capitalist in American culture today is telling them to get on the bandwagon, what else can one ask for? The Republicans borrowed and spent their way into a useless war that drained a trillion dollars from our gov't - but they aren't ready to do the same to save our economy? I say shame on them.
I don't like what they've been doing but I dislike accusing people one disagrees with of being unpatriotic even more. No party, ideology or idea owns patriotism. It was BS when the Republicans played that card. I'm not going to turn around and do it myself.
I don't blame them for saying what is right. Both parties have been obsessed with spending. I think they realize that Americans aren't comfortable with large deficits anymore, and that is one reason why they are out of power. I really don't see how they are unpatriotic.
Definitely shame on them. A spending freeze? How stupid can you get? The Republicans are being more "unpatriotic" than the Dems they accused of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" when they slammed Bush's Iraq policies. The national GOP is morally and intellectually bankrupt right now. They have no ideas other than to recycle the same old gruel that voters have rejected the last 2 elections. Their hypocrisy about deficit spending is over the top even for them.
Maybe this deserves its own thread, but what problem is more threatening to the future of this country, the economic crisis or terrorism
Buffett on CNBC this morning publicly stated that he thinks Obama is not handling the crisis the way he should be.
Economy is more threatening to the future. Terrorism leads to greater losses(Can't bring people back from the dead). Economy is the bigger concern for me at this point though.
Well, you almost answered the question there. The answer to the OP is no. Batman Jones nailed it. Obstructionist is not the same as unpatriotic.
Unpatriotic? no. Unproductive? yep. Unexpected? not really. The only thing close to a philosophy that Republicans have is the "small government" mantra, which as we have seen frequently backfires in practice, and in my opinion, is not really a philosophy more than it is a rallying cry(the absence of something is not something). So accordingly, the obvious course of action when confronted with obscurity is to oppose whatever the government does, no matter how intellectually inconsistent or inherently ridiculous it may make you seem.
I want to agree with those stating that their stance on the economy does not make them unpatriotic, but when they put Rush L. on a pedestal high enough that their elected representative has to bow to him, and he as the evident benchmark for the GOP states more than once that he hopes the president's economic plans fail (which would obviously be at the expense of our country and all the people in it) then I would have to say yes, what they are doing has some seriously unpatriotic overtones.
