GOP Legislators Caught Plagiarizing Each Other

[usregimechange]

Several days ago, I read Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton's
impassioned plea in favor of the Medicaid cuts enacted by the
Republican-led legislature in 2005.

The first paragraph of Jetton's column read, "There's a lot of talk
about Medicaid these days. The changes that the Governor recently
signed into law are on everyone's mind. Whether you believe those
changes were good, or even if you don't, there's one thing that was
certain: Medicaid in Missouri was a flawed system that was on course
to consume our entire state budget within ten years. Not only would
we not have the money to educate our children, but also we wouldn't
even have the money to help those who truly had nowhere else to
turn."

Imagine my surprise today when I received the latest Capitol Report
from Ron Richard, R-Joplin. The first paragraph of the column
read, "There's a lot of talk about Medicaid these days. The changes
that the Governor recently signed into law are on everyone's mind.
Whether you believe those changes were good, or even if you don't,
there's one thing that was certain: Medicaid in Missouri was a
flawed system that was on course to consume our entire state budget
within ten years. Not only would we not have the money to educate
our children, but also we wouldn't even have the money to help those
who truly had nowhere else to turn."

And you know, I could almost swear I read those same words in
another Joplin Republican's column recently.

http://www.rturner229.blogspot.com/

Intellectual inbreeding?

[KingFlorez]

1. They all have the same script

The GOP has no individuality, just scripts

[usregimechange]

2. I was always warned I could get kicked out of college for that...

But if you are a legislator the standards are a bit lower than your average binge drinking college student.

[WiseButAngrySara]

3. How can these slimebags associate themselves with any kind of morality

or ethics? Hasn't the American Public awakened yet? They are reprehensible.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I'm sure they both wrote it word for word the way Rove faxed it to them.

[Richard Steele]

7. Bingo! eom

[Spinzonner]

5. How many original thoughts and thinkers do you think

the Republican Party can actually produce.

It's all actually syndicated from a few think tanks and propogandists.

[usregimechange]

6. Pretty pathetic, no ethics whatsoever.