My former governor, Christie Whitman of New Jersey, centrist Republican, laments the loss of Arlen Specter and says:
In the coming election cycle, we have the opportunity to remind the nation that our party is committed to such important values as fiscal restraint, less government interference in our everyday lives, environmental policies that promote a balanced approach between protection and economic interest, and a foreign policy that is engaged with the rest of the world.
Huh? What Republican party is she talking about? The one whose president and members of Congress supported unnecessary tax cuts, government expansion, wiretapping without a warrant, decimating the environment, and saying fuck you to the rest of the world? File under wishful thinking.
You’re just not translating it right:
Fiscal restraint = cutting “socialist” aid and welfare programs
Less government interference in our everyday lives = getting rid of those nasty regulations and “special rights” that interfere with us (white upper class Christians) treating everyone else like crap
environmental policies that promote a balanced approach between protection and economic interest = balanced policies whose fulcrum is decidedly on the side of “economic interest.”
foreign policy that is engaged with the rest of the world = hey, you can’t invade a country or tell it to go fuck itself unless you’re engaged with it, right?
I’m still pissed at her for lying about toxicity during the aftermath of the 911 attacks.