Showing Up May Not Be All The Job - But It's A Start

Governor Huntsman is certainly working hard to build his name recognition around the country. Sadly, he is showing the rest of the country just how little he knows about what Republicans in Congress are doing...

With the party reeling from Sen. Arlen Specter's defection, a prominent moderate Republican governor is warning that GOP leaders in Washington have failed to offer a positive alternative to President Obama's initiatives.

"You can't just say no. You can't just obstruct or obfuscate," Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said in an interview with ABC News. "Instead of just kind of grousing and complaining, it would do us all a whole lot of good if we actually started engaging directly in finding compromises and common ground and shared solutions."

Huntsman is one of the most popular Republican governors in the country and a possible candidate for president in 2012. He gives fellow Republicans an "incomplete" grade on their first 100 days as an opposition party.

Perhaps Governor if you had bothered to SHOW UP for the Salt Lake County GOP Convention last Saturday you could have SPOKEN to your "fellow" Republicans like Congressman Rob Bishop. IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO SHOW UP, Rep. Bishop could have told you about some of the solutions that Republicans are proposing but Democrats in Congress are burying because they have the majority! IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO SHOW UP you would have learned about a RepublicanAlternative Stimulus package that would have created twice the jobs at half the cost of the one that was shoved down the country's throat. IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO SHOW UP you would have learned about the Republican Alternative Economic Recovery plan. IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO SHOW UP you would have learned about a Republican Alternative Housing Recovery plan that would worked with homeowners and banks in order to keep foreclosure at bay - rather than just giving more and more money to failing banks in the hopes that they will not foreclose...and then there was Republican Alternative Energy proposals from last summer. But you didn't bother to show up...you were too busy

As a matter of fact Governor...it is amazing how much you learn when you bother to dig deeper rather than reciting the DEMOCRATS talking points! Maybe if you talked to your "fellow" Republicans like Rep. Bishop - who just happens to BE IN CONGRESS you would know what Republicans in Congress are actually doing...

Food for thought....