Lois Bloomer, is the chair of the Republican Party in Penobscot County, Maine. She is an ardent defender of George Bush -- and spews the party line even if it makes her appear callous and completely out of touch. In other words, she personifies the GOP. Here's a sampling of her recent screed to the Bangor Daily News:
"I don’t really believe that at this point people are having to choose between food and medicine and housing, and if they are it’s because they made poor choices with their mortgages. You can’t blame that on the president," she said.Bush is faultless. And, then there's this tidbit to show Bloom doesn't let facts get in the way of her defense of Bush and the GOP:
According to the Web site of the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, in January 2001, when Bush took office, Maine’s unemployment rate was 3 percent. Seven years later, in January 2008, Maine’s unemployment rate had risen to 4.9 percent. The nation’s unemployment rate dropped from 4.7 percent in 2001 to 4.6 percent in 2007.Anyways, that Ms. Bloom, GOP spokesperson extraordinaire.
"I don’t see what’s wrong with the unemployment rate," Bloomer said. "It’s not that bad. I think the unemployment rate is mostly for people who don’t want to [or can’t] work anyways."
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