Republican's Selective Outrage

September 19, 2011 at 11:07 AM

By RICH LEVY

Predictably in a bad economy, the president's numbers have taken a hit, yet Obama's favorability basks in the sunlight compared to mildewing Republican numbers, which consistently show GOP trust and favorability to be polling lower than a snake's navel. Per their custom, Republicans now launch hysterics over anything except Job One - getting unemployed Americans back to work. 

Today’s GOP kindergarten-bathroom-dance is over a small company that used a federally guaranteed energy development loan. The company wasn't owned by big political donors, it obtained its loans in an open and transparent process, but it finally succumbed (to Chinese competitors) when commodity price shifts made their product uncompetitive. Even given the modestly sized guarantee program, the failed company's share was only 13 one-thousandths.

Meanwhile, those same GOP screechers are curiously silent about Dick Cheney's own Halliburton and its KBR subsidiary, which managed to lose ONE THIRD of the resources they were contracted to manage in Iraq. It’s hard to count money while distracted by screaming, and Halliburton “misplaced” $1.2 Billion in Iraq funds, as U.S. troops were being fatally electrocuted in KBR’s shoddily-built facilities.

A small business tried, and failed. That's the risk part in business; sometimes you lose. This terrifies the GOP axis of greed, because they believe business is about a sure thing, like no-bid contracts and sweetheart deals for Republican insiders, those cherished licenses to steal.

A rigged system that makes some very wealthy Republicans wealthier: that is Job One for today's GOP.

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