Republican: GOP is Being Taken Over by Southerners

A Republican Senator explained to the Columbus Dispatch that the biggest problem for the Republicans right now are southerners. He also said the biggest problem for Barack Obama right now is Nancy Pelosi.

“We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. It's the Southerners,” explained Ohio Republican Senator George Voinovich, who is not seeking re-election next year. He further told the Columbus Dispatch, “They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr…People hear them and say, 'These people, they're Southerners. The party's being taken over by Southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?'” The two Senators from Oklahoma and South Carolina have been the targets of the Democratic National Committee for the past several weeks. The DNC has released ads that show Sen. DeMint saying that defeating Pres. Obama’s health care form bill would “break” the President. Sen. Voinovich went on further and said that Pres. Obama’s biggest problem is Nancy Pelosi. He also stated that former President Bush blew it by not listening to Voinovich’s advice of simplifying the tax code. The Senator added that individuals and businesses spend an annual amount of $240 billion to prepare their tax returns. The Ohio Senator explained he wants nuclear power, “What I’m trying to do is get Ohio to be the heart of it all in terms of nuclear. You can build windmills from here to the Pacific and not make a difference in base load (power) generation.”