Matt Blunt Poll Numbers Slipping in Colorado

But at least he's getting attention. A progressivist columnist writes:

In Missouri, Gov. Matt Blunt piously declares that raising taxes on "hard-working families" is immoral even as he strives to eliminate Medicaid services for the poor. This Christian politician seems to have missed one of Jesus's most oft-repeated messages: Take care of the poor.

This writer, of course, implies that Matt Blunt is a poor Christian because he's not using the power of government to actively confiscate money from the working people, suck off the percentage that's the government's vig, and then spend the remainder on the poor.

Because Christian politicians vigorously use the government power only to enforce those policies of which progressives approve, namely employing progressives, but not for things like school prayer, abortion, gay marriage, or such. No, according to this author's edict, the government, not individuals, should opt for the poor.

I think Matt Blunt, Christian, believes that charity, Christian or otherwise, can match or exceed the government's handouts. This author, on the other hand, thinks that you have to force people to help others.