Roy Blunt Starts my Day off with a Laugh

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) is majority whip and candidate for the House leadership post. In today's Wall Street Journal he writes (subscription only) that Republicans can be proud of what they have accomplished as the majority party:

House Republicans have cut the tax rate on capital gains and dividends, substantially lowered personal tax rates, and set in motion a plan to eliminate the death tax once and for all. In just the past year we have reformed our bankruptcy laws, placed limits and restrictions on class-action lawsuits and--for the first time since 1997--passed reforms in mandatory spending programs to reduce the federal budget deficit. And after freezing regular domestic discretionary spending the year before, we enacted a real cut in spending this year.

House Republicans even enacted an energy bill that included reforms that helped us through the energy crisis after Hurricane Katrina. We have begun the long process of reforming our health care system by enacting one of the first elements of consumer-driven health care in the form of Health Savings Accounts.

The message to the readers of the WSJ: we have taken care of our rich friends, and don't you forget it. Nevermind that we are hopelessly corrupt, that the size of government has exploded under our watch, that there is no oversight of anyone in the legislative or executive branch... We gave you all those wonderful tax cuts and have taken care of all our corporate friends and wealthy donors. You don't want to lose that do you?