Todd Spitzer Belongs in the Doghouse Says Conservative OC Register Columnist

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The OC Register's Steven Greenhut doesn't often agree with CMR, but when he does, excuse us if we flaunt it. In a post on OC Register's blog, Orange Punch, Greenhut writes:

Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, was moved to the "The Doghouse," a tiny office in the Capitol after he engaged in some of the nastiest rhetoric I've seen in a while. Check out these columns he wrote depicting his Democratic colleagues as being "pro-criminal." It really was a shameless way to shut down serious debate about the crime bill by depicting the other party as filled with members who want nothing more than to let murderers and rapists out on the street. ...

To combat its irrelevancy, the GOP is reduced to championing itself as the law-and-order party. Now, we're all in favor of keeping the killers, molesters and rapists behind bars for the rest of their lives. But ... when does this ratcheting up of crime laws end? When does support for police secrecy end?

Apparently, Mr. Spitzer and others in the GOP are the party of big government: build more prisons, arrest more people, spend more money on guards, pass more laws, toughen up policies on everything. When anyone wants to discuss these issues in a nuanced manner, then you denounce them as being pro-criminal and wanting to let fiends out on the street.

This is the type of politics that has resulted in a poisoned atmosphere in Sacramento. Todd Spitzer belongs in The Doghouse.