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Sadly, delus, I've come to understand this all too well. Sanrene is spinning frantically like a whirling dervish as we speak. Do you suppose she's a double agent trying to make people hate R's???
by Nate Silver @ 7:13 PM [RIGHT]
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The Republican "Road to Recovery" budget alternative, rolled out today by John Boehner, has been criticized by left and right for its lack of specificity and its promise to eliminate the national debt while significantly cutting taxes. FiveThirtyEight.com, however, has received an advance copy of additional details prepared by the Minority Leader's office. Although some elements of the proposal are still under discussion -- Eric Cantor is said to want to eliminate North Dakota rather than Idaho, while Thaddeus McCotter has suggested using the balance of TARP funds to purchase scratch-off tickets -- the final plan can be expected to contain most or all of these components.
Great post!!! The only thing funnier than the article is the real proposal that Boehner and his cabal rolled out!!!
These guys are such jokes!!!
All they can do is criticize... They can't really DO anything - because all their ideas are morally and fiscally bankrupt!!!
After the past 8 years - do they SERIOUSLY think the public would trust them with the economy??? I mean - isn't that exactly like putting the patients in charge at the insane asylum???
I think the spray on tan is getting to Boehner's brain. Great post Dukester, I'd rep you but can't. However this is the best OP I've read in a long time.
Let's face reality. There is a very good reason why the Republicans didn't put a single hard number or detail into their "budget alternative" and that is because they know they're full of crap. Yeah, they're going to slash taxes for the rich and balance the budget but not say what they'll cut? This isn't a plan; this is a joke.
I guess you too didn't notice the numbers from the CBO report that doing nothing will leave us in better place than where Mr O man wants to take us. Of course you don't accept the over 150 life long financial expert's data in the first place. Daily Kos and Kieth Olbermann have the real numbers. How's ole Keithy doin wit his sports castin?
Quote:
The cumulative deficit from 2010 to 2019 under the
President’s proposals would total $9.3 trillion, compared
with a cumulative deficit of $4.4 trillion projected
under the current-law assumptions embodied in
CBO’s baseline. Debt held by the public would rise,
from 41 percent of GDP in 2008 to 57 percent in
2009 and then to 82 percent of GDP by 2019 (compared
with 56 percent of GDP in that year under
baseline assumptions).
This is exactly why this party is on the verge of Whig territory.
I really cannot believe that they went before the national public and produced a 19 page "blueprint" as their alternative to the War and Peace bill that the Pres has already submitted and what has been in Congress since Feb.
No figures, no projections, no guidelines, no plan...
What does it matter the democrats and republicans alike never read the 1100 page death sentence and the democrats questioned why their first appeal went belly up? "Look we, I mean me as president didn't know.. I wasn't their and to quote shaggy ~it wasn't me~"
What does it matter the democrats and republicans alike never read the 1100 page death sentence and the democrats questioned why their first appeal went belly up? "Look we, I mean me as president didn't know.. I wasn't their and to quote shaggy ~it wasn't me~"
Change you can believe in.
They didn't read it? C'mon, the GOP read it, why do you think they knew of all the spending. They must have read it cause they certainly did a lot whining about it. How can you whine if you don't know what's in it? You Repugs are really into theatrics just cracks me up.
What do they say about hindsight? The only part the democrats read and that being Obama was the part about AIG executive compensation. Someone gave the order....
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