Friday, February 20, 2009
Congress / Kotz / Politics Has Sen. Bob Corker Turned Loon?
Posted by Pete Kotz on Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:16 AM
It wasn't great legislation, but at least the man was trying. The unknown senator appeared to be rising above the partisan blather to actually make something happen.
But while reason may earn the respect of colleagues, it doesn't get you headlines or invites from Sean Hannity. Corker discovered that during the auto bailout hearings, when he launched a weird attack against the UAW for its alleged greed.
Never mind that the Big 3 had taken their management cues from Soviet-era manufacturing. And never mind that Bob had nothing to say about Detroit executive wages. His attack made him a darling of the exec set, which believes that livable wages are the root of all evil. Suddenly he was being gushed over by the Wall Street Journal and Fox.
Bob was drunk with fame...
Fast forward to this week, and you'll see nothing of the reasonable senator from last summer. He's now claiming that Tennessee can't even spend the $4.2 billion it's due from the stimulus package.
So it's no crime to be against the stimulus. Hurtling oneself into massive debt isn't for everyone. The problem is you heard little from Corker when Bush was burning up the treasury like a 13-year-old with a pocket full of Bar Mitzvah money at Opry Mills. And now that he's become Captain Fiscal Prudence, he seems to be suffering from a severe plunge in IQ.
First he backed a Republican stimulus package centered on tax cuts. Jeepers, honey, we're gonna pay $14 less to the federal government this year! Let's buy a Escalade! And now he's making wild claims about how Tennessee can't even spend the stimulus money.
Has Bob turned loon? Or is he just the latest in a long line of pols shamelessly grubbing to be the senator from Fox News?
Dear people, it may be time for an intervention.
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Actually, Bob Corker is one of the few sensible senators in Washington. You want maybe Barbara Boxer? His compromise last year of the first bailout bill was truly stellar. But to ask the union bosses and their thugs to actually take a cut in pay so that GM and Chrysler could stave off Chapter 11 was just too much to ask. Never mind that hundreds of thousands were losing their jobs. The UAW stood firm and would not budge an inch. Sen. Corker saw this for what it was, and came up with some give on both sides. He is a credit to Tennessee and won critical acclaim for his thoughtful reasoning. And Yes, FOX is THE network for thinking individuals. If you want the Obama robots who don't actually think for themselves but march in lockstep with his socialist agenda, watch CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, PBS, and I could go on and on.
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