Last week I reached out to the president, asking for a federal waiver from restrictions on stimulus money. I got a most unusual response. Before I even received an acknowledgment of the request from the White House, I got word that the Democratic National Committee was launching campaign-style TV attack-ads against me for making it.
Is this the new brand of politics we were promised? Instead of engaging with me and other governors on the merits of our dissent, I am to be attacked in television ads? In the end, I just don't believe a problem created by too much debt will be solved by piling on more debt. This doesn't strike me as an unreasonable or extremist position.
Gov. Sanford is opposed to taking on more debt by falling for the President's stimulus plan. That makes him a radical in the eyes of the administration and they are trying to belittle him. Sanford is a rare bird in that he is refusing to go along to get along.
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