Sure isn't your grandparents' Republican Party:
* In Wisconsin, Senate Republicans are breaking out the credit card to borrow more hundreds of millions of dollars and stick our grandkids with the bill for a highway-building bloat of their own creation. Remember when Republicans sold themselves as fiscal conservatives?
* And Gov. Walker, along with key GOP state senators and corporate servants like Tom Tiffany, have forgotten that former GOP Gov. Warren Knowles put his name on the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund - - a land conservation and public access program - - not a big-business-serving timber stand and wetland filling policy. Now Republicans only respect the green if it's on a greenback.
* In Washington, with support from many Republican Trump voters nationally, sucking up to Vladimir Putin and grasping after election assistance from Russian operatives is the GOP's foreign policy and campaign strategy new normal.
As Trump has said of his son's eight-person get-together with seven of his best friends in Dad's campaign and Putin's network to chat aboutsanctions adoptions and maybe the Giants upcoming season, "most people would have taken that meeting."
The same way Trump took that second meeting he forgot to disclose with Putin that most people would have taken, without a translator, witness or third-party - - so screw Reagan's old-timey "Trust, but verify" nonsense.
Because what are friends for?
* In Wisconsin, Senate Republicans are breaking out the credit card to borrow more hundreds of millions of dollars and stick our grandkids with the bill for a highway-building bloat of their own creation. Remember when Republicans sold themselves as fiscal conservatives?
* And Gov. Walker, along with key GOP state senators and corporate servants like Tom Tiffany, have forgotten that former GOP Gov. Warren Knowles put his name on the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund - - a land conservation and public access program - - not a big-business-serving timber stand and wetland filling policy. Now Republicans only respect the green if it's on a greenback.
* In Washington, with support from many Republican Trump voters nationally, sucking up to Vladimir Putin and grasping after election assistance from Russian operatives is the GOP's foreign policy and campaign strategy new normal.
As Trump has said of his son's eight-person get-together with seven of his best friends in Dad's campaign and Putin's network to chat about
The same way Trump took that second meeting he forgot to disclose with Putin that most people would have taken, without a translator, witness or third-party - - so screw Reagan's old-timey "Trust, but verify" nonsense.
Because what are friends for?
