If we may return to the delightfully stupid things Republicans do and say: Mitch McConnell is attempting to claim the recovering economy is the result of the recent Senate election.
:rolleyes:
Meanwhile, Boehner has been claiming all along that it’s because of Republican policies. Pretty much any respectable economist has pointed out that if their policies had not been in place, if the stimulus package had been far larger, and government had increased, rather than reduced spending, the recovery would have been far quicker and more robust. This is based on past performance, not on political ideology and voodoo economic theories.
I’m sure these outright falsehoods are being spun up now in anticipation of trying to once again polish the turds that will be trying to run for President soon.
Why am I surprised? Because the Senator in question was not Inhofe or the other usual suspects but Mark Kirk, who many believed to be moderate and who voted for the climate bill in 2009. Cite.
from the 2nd link, It’s worth appreciating how unusual this is. The Illinois Republican is the only politician I can think of who’s actually made the transition in the wrong direction – confronted with more evidence, Mark Kirk somehow became more ignorant, abandoning sensible positions he held just five years ago.
This “evidence”, did it come in stacks, wrapped with paper bands, in an aluminum attaché case?
Kirk’s seat is up next year. In the last 6 years, the GOP has just steadily become more and more batshit. He’s doing this because if he doesn’t, he gets no GOP votes next November. “Moderate” doesn’t go to Congress for the Republican Party anymore.
I voted for him last time because the Democrat was such an incompetent businessman-bully. I voted for him for rep, too, once, when he was just the guy from the 10th district in Illinois. He did a good job for the 10th. He was the guy I pointed to to prove I’m not just a guy who pulls the lever with the (D) after the name.
Look, truth and reality are messy. The piety of the GOP, like that of the pious frauds of obscurantists and mythmakers in the Middle Ages, imposes the appearance of order on the world. This “creates value,” to use an economic term.
Sanity and truthfulness tend to lose to applied political effort.
Are you going to believe a couple of guys named Krugman and Stiglitz, or a man named Boehner?
The Guardians of the Profiteers (GOP) have only been in control for a week, and the House is already trying to ram through legislation to gut Dodd-Frank. Fucking assholes won’t be happy until their ridiculous “job creator” lunacy once again destroys the economy.
I was in favor of this until I thought about it and realized he’s second in line to the Presidency. If the Prez and Veep get offed, he would be the new Prez.
The bill got 276 votes, which means a heck of a lot of Democrats were on board. And this after the Blue Dogs nearly became extinct, so those aren’t just conservative Democrats. That’s pretty darn close to a veto proof majority. So call it a stupid bipartisan idea if you will.
