GOP Wish To See America Fail Rather Than Allow Obama To Succeed Taken To Extreme By Orange County Extremist Dana Rohrabacher

OC kook Dana Rohrabacher (extreme right) playing Taliban in Afghanistan

Last year right wing extremist Dana Rohrabacher barely squeaked through a grassroots re-election challenge by Debbie Cook. Although the DCCC refused to assist Cook, Rohrabacher only managed to attract 53% of the vote, the worst showing of his career. He spent $741,821 to Cook's $481,660. Had the DCCC spent just a fraction of the money on Cook that they wasted on Alabama reactionaries like Bobby Bright and Parker Griffith, who keep voting with Republicans (but only on the important stuff), Congress wouldn't have to endure another two years of the intolerable Rohrabacher.

Needless to say, he's opposed everything that President Obama has proposed this year, from equal pay for women to health insurance for needy children and, of course, the Stimulus package. But as Orange County Progressive diarist joeesha pointed out today, Rohrabacher has a crazy way of justifying his obstructionism-- crazy even for a far right lunatic fringe kook like himself.

"Some people claim the Republicans economic plans have failed. Nothing could be further from the truth.

We needed to crash the real estate and construction industry to end opportunity for the illegal immigrants who were destroying our schools and health care. The Republican plan is working."

The millions who have lost the equity in their homes, or half their life savings, and the 3.6 million Americans who have lost their jobs in the last year are true patriots who are sacrificing for their country.

The last thing in the world we need is an economic stimulus plan which will put Pedro and his friends back to work."

If that sounds certifiably insane to you... you probably don't live in a deep red hellhole like some of the parts of Orange County where Rohrabacher draws his support. And if you think this is bizarre coming from a member of Congress, keep in mind that before 9/11 Rohrabacher used to brag that he was an honorary Afghan mujahideen-- having been over to Afghanistan for a photo op-- and even today was pushing his Planet X foresight obsession and his Near Earth Object Preparedness Act. Hopefully Obama's post-partisanship won't include asking Rohrabacher for his input on Afghanistan-- or immigration reform.