With all due respect to my fellow Point Loma native and Point Loma High School graduate Mari Hamlin Fink\u2019s quixotic plan to run against U.S. Rep. Susan Davis as the 53rd Congressional District\u2019s GOP nominee \u2014 well, good luck with that (“Fink makes bid for Davis\u2019 House seat,” Jan. 28 Peninsula Beacon, page 1). Davis has been an excellent fit with the district; progressive, hard-working and thoughtful, and richly deserves to be re-elected. Fink\u2019s shopworn chant that she\u2019d like to “limit spending” and would like to bring “some real change” (blah, blah) is laughable. As we\u2019re reminded almost every day in news out of Washington, Republican leaders don\u2019t want change. They want things to stay the same, or better, to revert to the 1950s. The only “change” they desperately seek is to replace the current Democratic administration, at seemingly any cost to the nation, with their own. They want yet more tax cuts for the already well-off and fewer social programs for everyone else. Health-care reform, as Fink mentions? Oh, my gosh, the GOP is really committed to that one. And now that they\u2019ve spent the U.S. into a $1 trillion-plus deficit under George W. Bush\u2019s disastrous leadership, Republicans suddenly yearn for fiscal restraint by President Barack Obama. They\u2019re such a gang of hypocrites it\u2019s hardly worth even pointing it out any more. I don\u2019t mean to impugn Ms. Fink personally. She\u2019s probably a perfectly intelligent, reasonable, public-minded person. She could even be a political moderate like Davis, which this mixed district historically prefers. Trouble is, the term “moderate Republican” is now an oxymoron. GOP leaders won\u2019t permit it. Any Republican elected today must be whipped and browbeaten and harangued into a conga line behind the right-wing, conservative, backward-looking extremists and obstructionists who now run the party. That ain\u2019t gonna fly in the 53rd District \u2014 and for good reason.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With all due respect to my fellow Point Loma native and Point Loma High School graduate Mari Hamlin Fink\u2019s quixotic plan to run against U.S. Rep. Susan Davis as the 53rd Congressional District\u2019s GOP nominee \u2014 well, good luck with that (“Fink makes bid for Davis\u2019 House seat,” Jan. 28 Peninsula Beacon, page 1). Davis […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Fink\u2019s bid for Davis\u2019 seat just more of the same","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}