The Bankruptcy (Moral and Literal) of Conservatism

The future of the Republican Party sure looks bright, eh?

Just hours before the unemployment benefits fund was to run out in South Carolina, the state with the nation’s third-highest jobless rate, Gov. Mark Sanford relented Wednesday and agreed to apply for $146 million in federal funds to top it up, after weeks of refusing to do so.

The governor’s position had drawn rebukes even from fellow Republicans in the legislature, one of whom denounced him as “heartless.” Newspaper editorial pages in South Carolina questioned why he was adding to the anxiety of the state’s 77,000 unemployed residents. Legislators here said they could recall no governor ever refusing to ask for unemployment funds.

Leadership the nation can believe in! The Republicans are sure tuned in to the needs of the nation.

It's also interesting to know just how reprehensible a South Carolina politician can be before turning the collective stomach of arguably our least progressive state.