Hypocrites: Hatch, Bennett, and Those Who Vote for Them
(Letter appeared in SL Tribune, Feb. 12, 2010)
Where were Sens. Orrin Hatch’s and Bob Bennett’s concerns for deficits when they voted for tax cuts, two wars and a drug plan without paying for any of them? Where was their concern for the middle class and our broken health care system during the past decade when the Republicans controlled Washington? Where was their concern on their watch (Bennett’s on the Senate Banking Committee) when regulation of banks and the securities trade were deemed unimportant? Where was their concern when they spent the budget surplus and then piled trillions of debt on the taxpayers? Americans don’t deserve taxpayer-funded health care, but Congress does! Earmarks are OK as long as it’s their “good” earmarks, right Rep. Jason Chaffetz? It’s OK now to vote against legislation he previously co-sponsored, right Rep. Rob Bishop?
Our political culture rewards hypocrisy and irresponsibility instead of serious efforts to solve our country’s problems. Winning elections is priority No. 1. We should look in the mirror every morning and recognize the biggest hypocrites of all, we who vote for these guys.
Magda Greene
Bountiful