Dick Cathcart is really pissing me off. Today, he published an opinion piece in The News Journal that tries to rewrite recent history.
He [Bryon Short] and just about 100 percent of his Democratic colleagues voted in favor of the package, whereas just about every member of the House Republicans voted against the tax and fee hikes.
Guess what? The Republicans could have scuttled every one of the tax and fee hikes. Every. Single. One.
Instead, they did a wink and a nod and withheld their votes, except the one vote necessary to actually keep the state running. So they are trying to play this as if they were somehow railroaded into these taxes. The truth is that they knew that these were the best solutions for the state, but they wanted to put Oberle on the hook (perhaps he is so ready to retire that even if he loses, he’ll be happy).
But instead of standing up and saying that the Republicans supported the tough decisions necessary to keep us solvent, Dick wants to say that they had nothing to do with it and that it was just the evil Democrats that raised your taxes. Dick, you insult the intelligence of Delawareans with this kind of posturing and it is unbecoming. I had thought you were better than that.