Open Minds and Empty Charges

The Idaho leftosphere is calling foul accusing Bill Sali of flip flopping on bail outs after the following statement was made to a local TV station:

“What he’s saying now is he’s keeping an open mind about it,” said Sali spokesman Wayne Hoffman. “But he’s very concerned about the scope and magnitude of this proposal.”

A spokesman for Walt Minnick, Sali’s Democratic opponent in the First Congressional District race, cries flip-flop.

“If nothing is done as Sali advocates, Idaho families run the risk of losing everything,” said Minnick spokesman John Foster. And Foster says keeping an open mind wasn’t the message Sali was sending last week.

But Hoffman says Sali’s letter dealt with piecemeal bailouts by the feds.

The government’s plan to buy $700 billion in banks’ mortgage debt is a big bird of a different feather with many wondering if it will fly.

So what was Sali’s message last week on this situation according to the Idaho Statesman?

Asked whether Friday’s developments might change Sali’s mind, Hoffman replied, “He is willing, as always, to keep an open mind but right now it feels very, very wrong and very bad for our country, our kids and our grandkids.”

So, last week in the Statesman, Bill Sali’s spokesman said that based on recent events, Sali had severe concerns, but was willing to keep an open mind. Today, on Television, Sali’s spokesman said Sali has severe concern but is keeping an open mind. And this, Walt Minnick’s spokesman calls a flip flop?

It seems to me the biggest flip flop going on is on the Democratic side of the aisle as they’ve gone from insisting Bill Sali is so dangerously blindly stubborn to send the nation into a depression to alleging he’s an unprincipled flip flopper.