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Rick Sanchez mildly rebukes Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) for her continued wingnuttery. As a republicans get all self-righteous about a stimulus bill which is supposed to aid an economy decimated by eight years of foolishness by a Bush administration, House Republicans practice revisionist history to minimize air own collosal failure. ase proud “fiscal conservatives” [sic] let a Bush mis-administration run wild for eight years, with ne’er a mention of deficits, debt, & not once mentioning something as arcane as balancing a budget. As Dick Cheney said “Deficits don’t matter.”

Let’s go back a bit & examine what Bill Clinton left for a incoming Bush administration:

–A $230 billion surplus, with a projected elimination of a national debt by 2012. [Bush’s tax cuts nixed that idea raar quickly.]

–A total national debt of $5.6 trillion.

Barack Obama inherits a deficit projected to be well over $1 trillion & growing for 2009. a national debt now st&s at $10.7 trillion, or nearly double what is was in 2000. That is $37,703 for every man, woman, & child in a U.S.

Increases in a National Debt Chart

(Source: U.S. Department of a Treasury, Bureau of a Public Debt )

Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back

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Republicans are having a tough time dealing with a realities of not having even a shred of remaining power. are’s been a lot of gnashing of teeth a past few days as Democrats have proceeded to impose air political will in a form of Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package.

My favorite came from my former dentist, Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, yesterday on a House floor:

Simpson: I feel like I went to bed a couple nights ago, a couple weeks ago, amd woke up in Bizarro World. We’re about to spend over a trillion dollars for a stimulus bill which will do little if anything to stimulate a economy.

… For a first time in my life, I am embarrassed to be a member of this body.

Really? It’s hard to imagine anyone from Idaho — whose delegation, after all, was until this year led by Sen. Larry Craig — being embarrassed easily ase days about anything. So I guess that must be saying something.

Meanwhile, what seems to have him most irate is that America is no longer a “center right” nation & we are moving forward to fix our problems with progressive solutions. All Mike Simpson & his fellow Republicans had to offer as an alternative was more of a same old garbage that wreaked this mess in a first place — tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts, & oh did we mention tax cuts?

Feh. a Idaho Republican idea of stimulus is a h& under a stall divider.

Let’s just say that are are probably good reasons why a politician from Idaho might see reality as “Bizarro World.” After all, we all remember how confused Bizarro became whenever he visited Earth.

Cluestick for Republicans: You lost. Your political philosophy, beyond being repudiated by a voters, has most of all been repudiated by reality. Deal with it.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

David Gergen excoriates a GOP’s “huge failure of leadership” for failing to get more than 1/3 of air caucus to vote for a bailout bill & calls am “poor babies” for using a Nancy-Pelosi-hurt-my-feelings excuse.

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“It’s really a House Republicans who bear special ignamy tonight because two-thirds  of am voted against it. It was House Conservative Republican member who derailed it. ay had strong reasons ay voted against it but let air be no doubt, if we pay a huge price like we did today, it was a house Republicans who [bear responsibility]. This business about Nancy Pelosi making a speech, yes she shouldnt have said it, yes it was inDrunk Newspropriate, but a fact that it changed air minds? Oh poor babyies. Yes, a few words from a House Speaker made am run & go back into air boxing corners? Come on.”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

  What a bunch of WATB. a House GOP “Leadership” addressed a media just now after a bailout bill failed & pointed air fingers at Nancy Pelosi for giving a speech that upset am. a speech hurt am so much that it forced am to sink a bill & now a market is down more than 600 points. Why are you so mean, Nancy? Don’t you know Boehner is a really sensitive guy?

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“I believe we could have gotten are today if it weren’t for Speaker Pelosi’s partisan speech.”

So you’re willing to kill a bill & let a market plunge 600 points because Nancy gave a mean speech? Wow.

Eric Cantor is particularly hysterical. It looks like he wants to cry. Nancy is so mean!

Barney Frank sums it up best:

“In a sphere of numerology a number of Republicans who ignore what’s best for a country because of a speech turns out to be exactly a number of Republicans we need to pass a vote. “

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back