Way to be GOP!

by: Justin Lynch

I'm an independent, so I like to take objective looks at both parties. Right now the Republican Party is a joke. There is no strategy at the national or state levels, no sense in what they're doing now, and are in serious danger of losing even more seats of power (although they just suffered defeats in New York and soon coming to Minnesota.)

So what has the GOP done in this time of heightened tensions about swine flu?

1. Stripped flu pandemic preparedness funding from stimulus package (to be fair, this happened before the swine flu started, just after worldwide scares of SARS and bird flu.)

2. Continue to block the nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, a vital office that directly deals with the doctors and hospitals on the frontlines.

They'll be back in the majority soon!

-Update 4-28-09-

Moderate Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter bolted the party he's been a member of for 42 years for the Democrats, seeing as he would probably lose the 2010 primary in a party that has grown more conservative. The Dems are one seat closer to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a development that would leave the GOP even more irrelevant.

And...the Senate confirmed Kathleen Sebelius, probably specifically because of this blog post.