GOP’s philosophy, practices conflicting

Donald Kaul, former Gazette and Register columnist, writing recently in his “OtherWords” column from Ann Arbor, provided some thought-provoking context to the Republican presidential candidate sweepstakes: “My feeling continues to grow that somewhere deep in the psyche of the American people there is a screw loose. We entered the 21st century as the most powerful nation on earth. There was nobody second. We had our problems, certainly, but we also had a budget surplus, a reasonable foreign policy, and a bright future.

“At which point the American people, in their wisdom, elected (George Bush) ... from Texas to lead them. He led them into two wars, a crushing public debt, and a financial crisis of historic proportions. Having been barely recovered from that folly, a good many people - Republicans, mainly - seem ready to do it again ...”

After witnessing the Tea Party nearly bring our country to its knees over raising the debt ceiling and hearing their hypocritical sanctimony, it's wise to note that if their side had any integrity when they were running things, they would have financed Medicare Part D and our two wars instead of putting them on the national credit card.

Tom Jacobson

Riverside