It matters not the name of so called conservative journalists, they all have so many things in common. The first words out of their mouth is, "I am a conservative" which implies they think they are elite and they and only they have the answers to everything. They all promote republican talking points like a bunch of robots and have a record of promoting misleading information. Conservative republicans today inside and out side of congress in leadership roles preach a conservative republican ideology that is unAmerican.
Mr. Varney's editorial published in the Times Picayune of October12 is so childish. He does not understand when a lie is a lie. Conservatives will take anything to the extreme. He talks about the growth in government workers but fails to mention how many jobs have been created in the private sector.
Varney talks about unemployment being over 8% for 43 months and glides over the second great republican depression under the George W. Bush administration that made that possible. Of course Varney had little good to say about unemployment dropping to 7.8%. And never would he mention that unemployment under Reagan stood above 10% for ten straight months and Reagan was not handed a depression.
Varney's editorial of October 19 was even more childish. He claims that Obama did not seek republican support and just ignored what the republican leaders in the U.S. House and Senate said soon after Obama took office. That is they would not work with the President and their goal was to make Obama a one term President. He then went on to rewrite the Clinton Presidency by saying his great success was signing on to republican initiatives. The fact of the matter is that the democratic controlled congress in 1993 passed President Clinton's deficit reduction and economic plans with out the vote of any republicans in the House or Senate. They all predicted doom and gloom and all voted no. The President's initiatives were his own.
I would much rather be an American first and foremost and have knowledge of the facts where ever that leads. As President Clinton articulated so many times, "when you operate on an ideology you have to come to a conclusion before you have the facts". Remember those WMD in Iraq that did not exist except inside Bush and Chaney's ideological mind.
This writer will take Americanism over conservative ideology any day. Thank goodness the Times Picayune carries E.J. Dionne's editorials to set the record straight.
