AP Fumes: GOP Pols Do What Their Hicks Want!

Posted: Feb 16, 2013

Via the Sweetness & Light blog, there’s this hilarious AP headline: “Unyielding GOP politicians doing what voters ask.” AP wants them to ignore the voters? You almost have to applaud AP for noticing that the conservative “obstructionists” in the House were indeed elected to uphold conservative principles. Something tells me AP didn’t do a horrified story from San Francisco or Beverly Hills in 2005 that “unyielding liberal Democrats” were actually going to listen to their constituents and oppose President Bush. But reporter Nicholas Riccardi reported from northern Utah: To understand why the nation may remain politically gridlocked for the next two years, talk to people in a place like Heber City, a conservative farming and ranching hub nestled beneath the imposing peaks of the Wasatch mountains. Many voters here, and in conservative communities across the country, still want to do whatever it takes to stop Obama, despite his solid re-election in November, and the politicians they elect are listening. Riccardi presents Rep. Jason Chaffetz, whose constituents have the gall to urge him to repeal Obamacare. That’s why AP picked Heber City, where Chaffetz knocked off a more establishment Republican in 2008, representing the "problem" of uncompromising Republicans. The AP man wrote Obama announced an “ambitious agenda” in his State of the Union – and somehow more tax hikes, raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour, and gun control aren’t described as a “liberal agenda.” Then he quoted Obama insisting Republicans aren’t really a majority: "The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they're really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies," Obama said in an interview with The New Republic magazine last month. http://sweetness-light.com/archive/ap-fumes-gop-pols-doing-what-voters-want#.UR6DSWesxYI Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/02/16/ap-horrified-obama-hating-utah-unyielding-gop-politicians-doing-what-vot#ixzz2L78SKGWC ;