Aggressively Uninformed

Let’s be blunt: Congressional Republicans have every political incentive to hinder President Obama, no matter what their actual opinions of his policy moves are. Politics ultimately boils down to: the incumbents stay in until they screw up or we get bored with them. So, I fully expect to see lots of knee-jerk reactions and obstruction from the members of the House in particular, so I’m not going to take anything too seriously from the Grand Old Party’s legislative branch. I’m much more interested in a group of Republicans who are forced by the electorate to actually act in the best interests of their constituents: the Republican governors. Compare: zero Republican votes for the stimulus in the House, but an outright endorsement from Charlie Crist, and a grudging acceptance from most other Republican governors. Even the born-again deficit hawks (read: Palin, Jindal, Pawlenty) sure as hell aren’t buying into the “spending isn’t stimulus” idiocy, they know what that money would mean for their states’ economies.