This is a posting about the hypocrisy of our national leaders and how their logic is similar to an argument once delivered on a sit-com.  Unfortunately, the spineless ones in Congress aren’t funny.

There was an episode of Barney Miller on Election Day.  The detective were called to a house where a woman was locked in her bathroom.  Her husband had forced her into the john so she couldn’t vote.  The husband explained that his wife hated him that she was going to vote against his candidate just to cancel out his vote.  He wanted to make sure his vote counted.

Funny on TV.  But in real life, it’s ridiculous.  But that’s exactly what Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions is saying when he calls for federal spending cuts but not cuts that are directed at his state.  Here’s how the New York Times wrote about it:

Mr. Sessions said money taken from NASA would not be saved but would instead be directed to other Obama administration priorities that he did not support. He said his preference would be to set an overall spending limit and allow Congress to determine what programs should get the money. “Then we can debate it,” Mr. Sessions said.

Sound familiar?  It’s just another politician speaking out of both sides of his mouth.  Sessions and Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss talk to the national GOP while trying to placate the local GOP with mixed messages.

Granted, the Democrats are just as bad when it comes to fiscal responsibility.  But the GOP on this issue are bigger hypocrites.  They tout themselves as the party of fiscal responsibility. 

I know many of you who read this will complain about me being an apologist for the Democrats or you will label me liberal.  I’m neither.  I may lean to the left on social issues, but when it comes to fiscal issues I am a conservative.  Does that make me a libertarian?  Not really.

What it does make Jeff Sessions and Saxby Chambliss: double-talk politicians who have foresaken what was truly great about the GOP long before the Neo-cons and the extremists took over.