I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with health care reform. As an uninsured American (who has a job), this is a critical issue for me and a good number of my co-workers.
Heads up ..............if we expect to actually move forward on these promises that NEED to be kept...we have to get that 60th seat!! Have to make it happen ...................make the committment to put that 60th butt in the seat. Just DO it!
I just can't believe that the Republican response consisted of the same of failed policies. If they continue to push tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans and companies, these guys may never occupy the White House again.
And as far as their rising star, Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, Republicans better keep looking. He looked and sounded just plain silly, unready to face the real problems facing the American people.
I'd rather he be amazingly effective....which is unlikely, He can't spend the trillions of dollars he plans on spending, raise taxes on the taxpayers who create jobs in our country (these people have been showing their faith in the Obama plan by their lack of activity in the stock markets as of late) and cut the deficit all at the same time.
"A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future."
"That about says it all."
Well actually it doesn't, it is a very disingenous statement! Which shows Obama to be nothing about change but a continuation of being a party politician as all politicians are.
The development of the Transportation Security Administration and Home Land Security in response to the danger that 9/11 brought to light cost this country a lot of money and was authorized by the entire congress Democrat and Republican alike!
If anything the Bush Tax cuts which were voted in but did not go into effect until the next year saved this country from going ito a full blown recession due to the loss of jobs due to 9/11, the airlines, the travel industry, the hospitality industry was devistated.
Our economy began to fail Before Bush left office due to the subprime mortage crisis not due to his tax cuts BTW the blame for the subprime mortage crisis can be laid squarely at the feet of both Democrats and Republicans.
So unless your just a Bush hater you can't lay the blame only on him (that is if you have even one foot planted in reality).
"BTW the blame for the subprime mortage crisis can be laid squarely at the feet of both Democrats and Republicans."
What a crock of BS. Deregulation and elimination of oversight has been long sought by the filthy GOP since they worship greed. They got it...it's their baby. And like the rest of the dirty bathwater, the GOP can get tossed out too.
Am I hopeful? yes--I was just because we have a thinking man in office. The address last night was strawberries on my pound cake.
Dan, talk about disingenuous! I bet you sat there last night , squinching your butt cheeks, trying to make yourself believe everything that (the very odd) Governor Bobby Jindahl said after Obama's address.
I'm pretty sure that even when Obama's plan works to get our country out of the Bush induced mess, you'll sit there, still squinching, and say it didn't work.
People like you are dinosaurs, Dan. Either put some positive energy into the world or shut the hell up.
Actually when the "surplus" was "given back" there was no surplus. The surplus had already been blown. And the idea that that was to stimulate the economy was just a substitute excuse. This has represented the loss of hundreds of $billions that actually might have stimulated the economy if it had been used for something like SBA new business start-up no interest loans, but that was never what it was about. To this day, not one single Bush tax advisor has been able to say the tax cuts have even paid for themselves.
The American public was scammed on this, and apparently some still are. In retro, the most humorous and tragic recollection of all this I can think of is Bush running around saying the average tax cut would be $10,000. Well, apparently the public couldn't grasp the concept of 100 of their neighbors in a room with Warren Buffett and having a high average -- until Warren walks out of the room. But like so many policies, Bush sold them packaged in deception. At least now, we have a lot less phony PR about whatever we do as a nation. Oh, there's still plenty of PR, but not nearly as much.
After the last 8 years, now watching Obama in action, it literally feels like we've emerged from some dual world where nothing was as we once knew it.
I actually wrote a post on this topic a bit back where I compared the Bush and Obama eras as the people emerging from Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole where the world was upside down.
For all those folks who survived the Carter Administration "Welcome back Carter". And for those too young, you will get a great life experience what inflation and stagflation are.
Mario, where have you been all my life (or at least these last, long eight years?). You needed a decoder ring to get through it. Up is down and around is under in Bush speak. That's the first rule. Or put NOT and HOGWASH, BIG FAT LIAR after everything they said. "Mission Accomplished. NOT." "We'll be greeted as liberators. HOGWASH." "No Child Left Behind. BIG FAT LIAR." See, it all starts making sense.
And for those too young, you will get a great life experience what inflation and stagflation are.
We already know from the last 8 years. Carter was never that bad.
No Child Left Behind
More like "No child left a dime."
The one thing I can blame the Democrats for is sheepishly going along with what the Republicans wanted. I, too, am not happy with Nancy Pelosi, but I hope Obama isn't like her.
Jindal sounded like he had not heard the speech. GOP better keep looking.
I don't expect all of the President's plans to work, but at least some thought is given to regular citizens.
We need to look around and see what we can be do personally in our communities to help out even if just in small ways. I think Obama is inspiring us to try to be better.
I removed the name, because my comment isn't specific to that one person (although it fits him). If a person has no ability to understand what a genius says, wouldn't disingenuous be the most s/he could take from it?
Somebody took a wrong turn on the logic tree and is out on a limb.
There was a record surplus when Bush took office and a record deficit when he left. Where did all the money go? We destroyed and then rebuilt Iraq on no-bid contracts, but it did not get invested in America, did it? No. That would be "socialism." The rich got richer and the middle class stagnated or shrunk in a cruel, reverse Robin Hood. Google distribution of wealth in America if you don't believe me.
"Karl Marx express, coming down track nine! For all those folks who survived the Carter Administration "Welcome back Carter"."
Karl Marx has a TRAIN??? Suh-WEEET! President Carter's back?? HELL YEAH!!! Oh wait! That's right! He DID want alternative energy developed until Ronny Raygun canceled all that to build his star wars SDI system....which has never been used. At this point, Karl Marx, even though he's dead...would be better that Booshie was! Certainly a better listener.
//All the while, the GOP is moaning over the reduction of rich in the country.//
Maybe the rich should wise up if they want to stay rich in the long term. Trickle down is bunk. It's really trickle up and it starts with a strong middle class and decent jobs. Maybe they shouldn't all be shipped off shore to the lowest bidder.
So can someone tell me why republican support of Obama dropped so dramatically? What exactly did they want from him that he hasn't given them? Did they think he'd try to continue the previous policies? Did they just pretend to support him for a couple of weeks, so they could say he's a disappointment and drag down his approval rating?
Re: Sheryl O's comment about the wars not being included in the budget. What a slimy deception that was by Bush, and the media and public let him get away with it, for 6 years. What other war has been classified as "supplemental" for year after year for 6 years? Typical of the Bush manipulation of ignorance - because ignorance is how he got away with that.
And about Jimmy Carter, so many Republicans are laboring under the delusion that R. Reagan brought down the Soviet Union. Check it out - it was Jimmy Carter. And JC did get the Camp David accords in place, the technical aspects of which have stood to this day, despite the ongoing trouble in middle east.
If we don't want to have overseas military bases getting bombed, how about closing them down? We have over 800 military bases around the world. Most of them aren't needed for "defense," and many of them are in places where we are resented because we support dictators who oppress the citizens of many of those countries where our bases are. If you want to stop terrorism and keep us "safe," the best way to do that is to stop the policies that motivate terrorists. You can't kill 'em all, so you might as well take away their motivation.
And Winston... we already gave up freedom for security. It's called the PATRIOT Act. Half of our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms (Bill of Rights) is gone, because the fear of the public was exploited by those in power during the early part of this decade. It's not about socialism, it's about a misplaced ideal of global domination, when the world doesn't want to be dominated by us.
"What a crock of BS. Deregulation and elimination of oversight has been long sought by the filthy GOP since they worship greed."
Doyle, There is plenty of footage of Frank and plenty of other Democrats resisting the Bush Administrations attempt to excert additional controls over freddie and fannie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related
Sorry my myopic Bush hater the Dems are at fault for our current crisis just as much.
"Yeah...the Bushie idea of Slap-side economics has created how much unemployment??"
Only if you continue your delusional thinking that the Democrats have no responsibility in the current crisis can you foist the entire fault on Bush. You must lift both feet from reality inorder to come to that conclusion.
BTW, make sure you watch to the end of the youtube video where you will see President Bill Clinton placing some of the blame on the congress for rebuffing both the Republicans and his efforts to regulate fanni and freddie.
"Danee, you have a karma problem. Go back to your cave!"
My goodness Julia, what a well constructed argument! LOL!
The economic problems of the Carter years were completely different from the ones we face now. They started at the end of the Viet Nam war. Reagan's early efforts to solve the problems exacerbated them.
Fannie and freddie did not make all the subprime loans, and it was not subprime loans alone that defaulted. It was loans made to all kinds of people by morgtgage brokers and companies who were dishonest and not regulated strictly as they should have. The fixation with Fannie and freddie is the excuse the GOP use to blame the dems but they were the ones pushing the Bill that deregulated the banks and allowed this bundles of mortgages to be made and sold as financial instruments, then the derivative comes and they all were gambling with no insurance or guarantees. A big house of cards with FIAT currency blown out of proportion. The oversight was missing, the market in 2002 was flooded with cash below the inflation rate and everyone maning the banks were shopping for loans with plenty of cheap money from the feds. To simplify this and blame on single thing for the crash is the talking of a very uninformed person
Now it is time to spend money here at home and if we are worth anything as a nation we will make it work by saving, living below our means and refuse to pay huge money for housing. I think the lies of a party who does not live accordingly to their ideology are obvious. The republicans have not balance a budget since Nixon and they still say they are fiscal conservatives.You must be pretty stupid after 50 years to believe them. I agree with the small government idea but they do not and they have proven that over the years but they kick a lot of dust and people get blinded by the strong braggadocio approach and actually believe them.
I missed the speech last night, I need to find it online and listen. Anywho, I have faith in Obama. Things will probably get worse before they get better, I understand and I am trying to prepare for that. This mess didn't happen overnight and will/can not be corrected overnight.
The politicians that don't want to do the right thing for this country because of party rules, money for their campaigns etc. should step down now and bring someone in that wants to do the right thing, even if it is not popular within party line. It is time to think about the majority of the citizens and now how they are going to be re-elected.
What amazes me is how the Republicans in Congress criticize investments in education, healthcare and the arts as "pork." We are investing in people, because it is people who will transform our country. After the greed, mismanagement, and downright dishonesty over the past 8 years how can they, in good conscience, continue to push for deregulation, lack of government oversight and intervention?
Good question! Because they can, they need to be deselected and soon. I am sure there are few of them we have brains, actually I think they use group think. No one moves unless they are all together and that will loose them their seat. I think they are missing the fact the country is progressive not regressive, at least 65% percent of the thinking informed and aware citizenry.
"Fannie and freddie did not make all the subprime loans, and it was not subprime loans alone that defaulted."
lea and... c,
"The agency neglected to examine whether borrowers could make the payments on the loans that Freddie and Fannie classified as affordable. From 2004 to 2006, the two purchased $434 billion in securities backed by subprime loans, creating a market for more such lending. Subprime loans are targeted toward borrowers with poor credit, and they generally carry higher interest rates than conventional loans."
"Fannie and Freddie finance about 40 percent of all U.S. mortgages, with $5.3 trillion in outstanding debt. Owned by private shareholders but chartered by Congress, they are exempt from state and local taxes and receive an estimated $6.5 billion-a-year federal subsidy because they can borrow money more cheaply than other investors. In return, they are expected to serve "public purposes," including helping to make home buying more affordable."
Up is down and around is under, Dan. That's how Bush lovers think. It gets old trying to talk to them. If you can't look around and smell the coffee and connect voodoo economics with who was in power for the last eight years, you're hopeless. At least you are in the minority. Thank God! Deregulate and let the market place have its way and what happens? A few people get very rich in the short term at the expense of the rest of us and the health of our children. I don't have to use big words. You and your ilk are takers, not givers. You've scorched the earth and should be ashamed of yourselves. Instead you keep spewing nonsense about how tax cuts at the top cure hang nails and hoping Obama fails.
What I am most angry with is that blind eye to the past and an indifference to the cost to my child. these programs in the "STIMULUS PACKAGE" $200,000. for tatoo removal. Who on this page wants to pay for my tatoo removal. Dont insult the collective intelligence by saying that this is good for the country. When all it does is bale out the stupid. Say NO to bale outs. Nowhere in history did it work. DID anyone read 1984 where the government streamed gloom and doom into the homes of its citizens in order to get them to agree to the policies that inslave them. HHMM I feel inslaved to the tune of about $30,000 owed by every man woman and child in this country
If you would cut and paste your rant about Bush's runaway spending train and the who wants to pay for destroying and rebuilding Iraq or building bridges to nowhere Alaska, I might pay attention to your angst about $200,000 spent in this country to help people get JOBS!!!
And it's bailouts, John. I would point to FDRs programs working quite well. What doesn't work is trickle down economics and deregulation of finance institutions. Monopolies have their downsides as well.
There is nothing wrong with debt, John. That's what George W. said when he was running up the tab. If we are going to have it, I'd much prefer it be spent on building up people over here than blowing up people over there. That's just me. And the majority who voted for Obama.
Gail Collins from this morning's New York Times actually has your number:
------------------------------- The Dead Tree Theory By GAIL COLLINS
"Whenever a president gives a major address, like the one Barack Obama delivered to Congress this week, the opposition party delivers a rejoinder. Which American citizens always ignore. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech was, therefore, a kind of triumph. So bad, people actually paid attention!
"We will pass over Jindal’s delivery, which sounded a little like a junior high schooler’s entry into the Chamber of Commerce “I Speak for Fiscal Restraint” contest. The content was the thing: a message to the nation that the Republicans were not going to have anything important or useful to say about the current economic crisis.
"Absent any deep thoughts, the Republicans are going to complain about waste . . ."
Maybe some of the stimulus seems far fetched, such as tatoo removal, but NOTHING is more idiotic and wasteful than destroying Iraq, and then rebuilding it, all the while letting no bid contracts, and losing tons of money which just got accidentally *misplaced*.
Sorry, but the idiotic Republicans did not practice what they preach.
"What I am most angry with is that blind eye to the past and an indifference to the cost to my child. these programs in the "STIMULUS PACKAGE" $200,000. for tatoo removal."
Obviously I posted this before I learned of Geithner's schemes for a recession to be an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy, in particular, the wealthy on Wall Street who caused the recession, an investment in trickle down, instead of an opportunity to re-imagine and re-tool our future.
Well, We squandered 8 years Trillions of of dollars. went from surplus to deficit. Left us with the bill. We should have used surplus to rebuild our 3 Trillion on rooting inferstructure, brigdes, sewers, roads, Electric lines, dams and dikes. Obama is left with a mess. We are all left with a mess. Many jobs are now gone period. Big New York banks that made the mess got bailed out while little rural banks are dropping like flys. FDIC has spent its wad and there are no funds bail out the innocent good little banks. They are not systemic risks! Yes I was all for change, but Obama had much of his coarse predetermined by the actions of the Bush administration. He has moved quickly, not always the best way, but good enough. So far so good
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Comments: 76 ( 1 removed by Julia Star )
I also liked when he said if we didnt like the job he does elect someone else in 4 years.
I was very impressed.
Bush came into power and started the "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH"
He made the middle class poor, and enriched the rich.
Well we still have to hear the republican bs.
Oh and it wasn't a state of the union address as he is the new president and his first state of the union address will be next year.
Have to make it happen ...................make the committment to put that 60th butt in the seat. Just DO it!
And as far as their rising star, Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, Republicans better keep looking. He looked and sounded just plain silly, unready to face the real problems facing the American people.
I'd rather he be amazingly effective....which is unlikely, He can't spend the trillions of dollars he plans on spending, raise taxes on the taxpayers who create jobs in our country (these people have been showing their faith in the Obama plan by their lack of activity in the stock markets as of late) and cut the deficit all at the same time.
It just ain't going to happen.
I'd have to agree
"That about says it all."
Well actually it doesn't, it is a very disingenous statement!
Which shows Obama to be nothing about change but a continuation of being a party politician as all politicians are.
The development of the Transportation Security Administration and Home Land Security in response to the danger that 9/11 brought to light cost this country a lot of money and was authorized by the entire congress Democrat and Republican alike!
If anything the Bush Tax cuts which were voted in but did not go into effect until the next year saved this country from going ito a full blown recession due to the loss of jobs due to 9/11, the airlines, the travel industry, the hospitality industry was devistated.
Our economy began to fail Before Bush left office due to the subprime mortage crisis not due to his tax cuts BTW the blame for the subprime mortage crisis can be laid squarely at the feet of both Democrats and Republicans.
So unless your just a Bush hater you can't lay the blame only on him (that is if you have even one foot planted in reality).
What a crock of BS. Deregulation and elimination of oversight has been long sought by the filthy GOP since they worship greed. They got it...it's their baby. And like the rest of the dirty bathwater, the GOP can get tossed out too.
Yeah...the Bushie idea of Slap-side economics has created how much unemployment??
Dan, talk about disingenuous! I bet you sat there last night , squinching your butt cheeks, trying to make yourself believe everything that (the very odd) Governor Bobby Jindahl said after Obama's address.
I'm pretty sure that even when Obama's plan works to get our country out of the Bush induced mess, you'll sit there, still squinching, and say it didn't work.
People like you are dinosaurs, Dan. Either put some positive energy into the world or shut the hell up.
The American public was scammed on this, and apparently some still are. In retro, the most humorous and tragic recollection of all this I can think of is Bush running around saying the average tax cut would be $10,000. Well, apparently the public couldn't grasp the concept of 100 of their neighbors in a room with Warren Buffett and having a high average -- until Warren walks out of the room. But like so many policies, Bush sold them packaged in deception. At least now, we have a lot less phony PR about whatever we do as a nation. Oh, there's still plenty of PR, but not nearly as much.
AMEN, Don!!!!
I actually wrote a post on this topic a bit back where I compared the Bush and Obama eras as the people emerging from Alice in Wonderland's rabbit hole where the world was upside down.
If you wish to read it, you can see it at Emerging From The Rabbit Hole
For all those folks who survived the Carter Administration "Welcome back Carter". And for those too young, you will get a great life experience what inflation and stagflation are.
PT Barnum had nothing on these clowns.
We already know from the last 8 years. Carter was never that bad.
No Child Left Behind
More like "No child left a dime."
The one thing I can blame the Democrats for is sheepishly going along with what the Republicans wanted. I, too, am not happy with Nancy Pelosi, but I hope Obama isn't like her.
I don't expect all of the President's plans to work, but at least some thought is given to regular citizens.
We need to look around and see what we can be do personally in our communities to help out even if just in small ways. I think Obama is inspiring us to try to be better.
I removed the name, because my comment isn't specific to that one person (although it fits him). If a person has no ability to understand what a genius says, wouldn't disingenuous be the most s/he could take from it?
There was a record surplus when Bush took office and a record deficit when he left. Where did all the money go? We destroyed and then rebuilt Iraq on no-bid contracts, but it did not get invested in America, did it? No. That would be "socialism." The rich got richer and the middle class stagnated or shrunk in a cruel, reverse Robin Hood. Google distribution of wealth in America if you don't believe me.
All the while, the GOP is moaning over the reduction of rich in the country.
Hmmmm...who would you rather have in charge of things?
For all those folks who survived the Carter Administration "Welcome back Carter"."
Karl Marx has a TRAIN??? Suh-WEEET! President Carter's back?? HELL YEAH!!!
Oh wait! That's right! He DID want alternative energy developed until Ronny Raygun canceled all that to build his star wars SDI system....which has never been used. At this point, Karl Marx, even though he's dead...would be better that Booshie was! Certainly a better listener.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
Maybe the rich should wise up if they want to stay rich in the long term. Trickle down is bunk. It's really trickle up and it starts with a strong middle class and decent jobs. Maybe they shouldn't all be shipped off shore to the lowest bidder.
And to this day they still can't figure out how to get it to work. Talk about a total waste of research funding.
And about Jimmy Carter, so many Republicans are laboring under the delusion that R. Reagan brought down the Soviet Union. Check it out - it was Jimmy Carter. And JC did get the Camp David accords in place, the technical aspects of which have stood to this day, despite the ongoing trouble in middle east.
When was there Republican support?
I hope President Obama keeps the American people safe. If he tries to appease the terrorists and bad people in the world, I hope it doesn't backfire.
It's too late when our homeland gets bombed, or an overseas military base, or an overseas embasey gets bombed.
Socialism doesn't work. People who give up freedom for a promise of security end up with neither.
And Winston... we already gave up freedom for security. It's called the PATRIOT Act. Half of our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms (Bill of Rights) is gone, because the fear of the public was exploited by those in power during the early part of this decade. It's not about socialism, it's about a misplaced ideal of global domination, when the world doesn't want to be dominated by us.
Doyle,
There is plenty of footage of Frank and plenty of other Democrats resisting the Bush Administrations attempt to excert additional controls over freddie and fannie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related
Sorry my myopic Bush hater the Dems are at fault for our current crisis just as much.
"Yeah...the Bushie idea of Slap-side economics has created how much unemployment??"
Only if you continue your delusional thinking that the Democrats have no responsibility in the current crisis can you foist the entire fault on Bush.
You must lift both feet from reality inorder to come to that conclusion.
BTW, make sure you watch to the end of the youtube video where you will see President Bill Clinton placing some of the blame on the congress for rebuffing both the Republicans and his efforts to regulate fanni and freddie.
"Danee, you have a karma problem. Go back to your cave!"
My goodness Julia, what a well constructed argument! LOL!
The fixation with Fannie and freddie is the excuse the GOP use to blame the dems but they were the ones pushing the Bill that deregulated the banks and allowed this bundles of mortgages to be made and sold as financial instruments, then the derivative comes and they all were gambling with no insurance or guarantees.
A big house of cards with FIAT currency blown out of proportion.
The oversight was missing, the market in 2002 was flooded with cash below the inflation rate and everyone maning the banks were shopping for loans with plenty of cheap money from the feds.
To simplify this and blame on single thing for the crash is the talking of a very uninformed person
I think the lies of a party who does not live accordingly to their ideology are obvious.
The republicans have not balance a budget since Nixon and they still say they are fiscal conservatives.You must be pretty stupid after 50 years to believe them.
I agree with the small government idea but they do not and they have proven that over the years but they kick a lot of dust and people get blinded by the strong braggadocio approach and actually believe them.
The politicians that don't want to do the right thing for this country because of party rules, money for their campaigns etc. should step down now and bring someone in that wants to do the right thing, even if it is not popular within party line. It is time to think about the majority of the citizens and now how they are going to be re-elected.
I am sure there are few of them we have brains, actually I think they use group think. No one moves unless they are all together and that will loose them their seat.
I think they are missing the fact the country is progressive not regressive, at least 65% percent of the thinking informed and aware citizenry.
methinks you have no well constructed arguments which is why you respond in traditional liberal fashion, of kill the messenger.
lea and... c,
"The agency neglected to examine whether borrowers could make the payments on the loans that Freddie and Fannie classified as affordable. From 2004 to 2006, the two purchased $434 billion in securities backed by subprime loans, creating a market for more such lending. Subprime loans are targeted toward borrowers with poor credit, and they generally carry higher interest rates than conventional loans."
"Fannie and Freddie finance about 40 percent of all U.S. mortgages, with $5.3 trillion in outstanding debt. Owned by private shareholders but chartered by Congress, they are exempt from state and local taxes and receive an estimated $6.5 billion-a-year federal subsidy because they can borrow money more cheaply than other investors. In return, they are expected to serve "public purposes," including helping to make home buying more affordable."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/09/AR2008060902626_pf.html
No they did not make all the loans.
And as I said I do not excuse the Republicans as some of you seem to be trying to excuse your Democrats and place all the blame on President Bush
And it's bailouts, John. I would point to FDRs programs working quite well. What doesn't work is trickle down economics and deregulation of finance institutions. Monopolies have their downsides as well.
There is nothing wrong with debt, John. That's what George W. said when he was running up the tab. If we are going to have it, I'd much prefer it be spent on building up people over here than blowing up people over there. That's just me. And the majority who voted for Obama.
-------------------------------
The Dead Tree Theory
By GAIL COLLINS
"Whenever a president gives a major address, like the one Barack Obama delivered to Congress this week, the opposition party delivers a rejoinder. Which American citizens always ignore. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech was, therefore, a kind of triumph. So bad, people actually paid attention!
"We will pass over Jindal’s delivery, which sounded a little like a junior high schooler’s entry into the Chamber of Commerce “I Speak for Fiscal Restraint” contest. The content was the thing: a message to the nation that the Republicans were not going to have anything important or useful to say about the current economic crisis.
"Absent any deep thoughts, the Republicans are going to complain about waste . . ."
Sorry, but the idiotic Republicans did not practice what they preach.
Cheney said it too.
But how dare the Dems run up debt when they are using it for public welfare.
That is, of course, relying on the assumption that Republicans can even think.
Sometimes it sucks to have facts.
Not for tattoos folks