Sanford: a lonely budget cutter
South Carolina Governor Mark Sandford is doing what few politicians of any political persuasion are willing to do: reject stimulus money.
Granted, he’s not rejecting all of it, but still a substantial amount. Sanford is engaging in political retroaction. The year, you ask? 1964.
Not since Barry Goldwater has the Republican Party seen such a principled budget cutter as Sanford. This stripe of conservatism breaks sharply with the supply-side brand in the sense that although both cherish “limited government,” the supply-sider is willing to run-up large (usually military) spending deficits, while the budget cutter never spends more than he has, which sometimes forces him to forgo a tax decrease.
The caveat to all of this, of course, is that Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run failed miserably. Hopefully Sanford will not make the same mistakes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/politics/04sanford.html?_r=1&hp
I heard some other Republican governors are doing the similar things, such as Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal. But I really do think that more than anything else, these actions are mainly political ploys for them to ring up points with their hardline Republican constituents for the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary.
Sanford sure is lonely, eh? kekeke
Lonely enough to spend time entertaining his libido in South America! ZING!!!