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    "Brievik - Republican Hero"  wrote:   
      
   > Maybe you stupid hillbillies should stop being socialists, get off your   
   > asses and look for a job for a change.  Most of you only joined the   
   > military for the free food, free clothes, free toilet paper, free guns and   
   > gay sex.   
   >   
   >   
   > How Republicans Screwed the Pooch   
   > Republicans say they want to save the country from Obama’s reckless   
   > spending. But as Paul Begala argues, it’s the GOP’s policies that have   
   > driven the nation into the ground.   
   > Jul 30, 2011 9:19 PM EDT   
   >   
   >   
   > There it sits, lonely and forlorn on my shelf. A leather-bound copy of the   
   > 1999 Budget of the United States of America. A gift from President Clinton   
   > to the folks on his team, it was the first balanced budget in decades.   
   >   
   > But it wasn't supposed to be the last. Indeed, experts projected surpluses   
   > as far as the eye could see. $5.7 trillion in surpluses, to be exact. The   
   > surpluses were so strong that deep into the future—in 2009—the entire   
   > national debt was going to be zero. For the first time since Andy Jackson   
   > was president, the United States of America would not owe a dime.   
   >   
   > It didn't quite work out that way, did it? As Washington seems paralyzed,   
   > our economy stagnates, and America's full faith and credit is on the   
   > brink, it is useful to recall how we got here. This was not an act of   
   > nature. There was no unforeseen earthquake, no tsunami, no hurricane that   
   > wiped out our surplus. It was instead a Republican House, a Republican   
   > Senate, and a Republican president who squandered the surplus. In full   
   > possession of the federal government for the first time since Eisenhower,   
   > the GOP—with, to be fair, some help from some very foolish   
   > Democrats—systematically dismantled the economic and fiscal policies that   
   > produced the strongest economy and largest budget surplus in our history.   
   >   
   > Specifically, they did four things: cut taxes (with a heavy tilt toward   
   > the rich), waged two wars on the national credit card (one of which was   
   > against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no serious   
   > threat to America), passed a prescription drug benefit with no pay-for   
   > (the first entitlement in American history without a revenue source), and   
   > deregulated Wall Street (which helped turn the American economy into a   
   > casino and touched off the Great Recession).   
   >   
   > I recap all that not to further depress you, Dear Reader. But it is   
   > striking how absent that history has been from the coverage of our current   
   > crisis. I can understand why the GOP doesn't want to remind folks of how   
   > they screwed the pooch. Indeed, they have a competing myth—that Washington   
   > went on a spending binge; radical young President Barack Obama went crazy   
   > with the national credit card. That, of course, is nonsense. But too few   
   > Democrats—and almost no media commentators—have countered the mendacious   
   > right-wing storyline.   
   > republicans   
   >   
   > Speaker of the House John Boehner (left) and House Majority Leader Eric   
   > Cantor listen during a news briefing after a House Republican conference   
   > meeting June 22, 2011, Alex Wong / Getty Images   
   >   
   > Just as bad as ignoring how we got here, we risk missing the story of   
   > precisely where the GOP wants to take us. In the coverage of the game   
   > (Will Boehner find the votes? Will the Tea Party really drive us off a   
   > cliff? Will Eric Cantor lead a revolt?) we sometimes neglect the substance   
   > of the proposals. Just what kind of country do the Republicans seek to   
   > build? Instead of seeing it as a bargaining chip, perhaps we should treat   
   > the GOP proposal as a serious governing document.   
   >   
   >     What the GOP seeks is a banana republic: a toxic blend of right-wing   
   > populism, anti-intellectualism, debt defaults, and an end to the ladder of   
   > economic opportunity.   
   >   
   > Bob Greenstein, the widely respected president of the nonpartisan Center   
   > on Budget and Policy Priorities, has done just that. His conclusion:   
   > The Boehner-GOP plan is "tantamount to a form of ‘class warfare.’ If   
   > enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and   
   > hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history."   
   >   
   > Think about that. As the economy teeters on the precipice of a double-dip   
   > recession, as millions of Americans search in vain for a job, as tens of   
   > millions of homeowners are underwater, as poverty soars and the middle   
   > class is hammered, the Speaker of the House is pushing a proposal that—let   
   > me repeat Greenstein's analysis—“could well produce the greatest increase   
   > in poverty and hardship in modern U.S. history.” Deep cuts in every   
   > domestic priority—from education for disabled children to food safety to   
   > homeland security to clean air and water. Followed by painful cuts in   
   > Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. But not a dollar in new revenue.   
   > Not one corporate loophole closed, not one billionaire asked to pay one   
   > penny in higher taxes.   
   >   
   > Oh, and if they don't get their way they will cripple the Treasury's   
   > ability to pay the debt—the debt, I hasten to add, that their policies   
   > created.   
   >   
   > It has become a trope of the right to accuse Obama and the Democrats of   
   > trying to remake America in the image of Europe. That, of course, is silly   
   > as well as insulting to the people who gave us the Magna Carta and the   
   > Enlightenment, not to mention spaghetti. But in whose image would the   
   > radical Republicans remake us? Certainly not in the image of the Founding   
   > Fathers. The Republicans are already seeking to make Swiss cheese out of   
   > Mr. Madison's masterpiece, littering the Constitution with amendments on   
   > budgeting, the line-item veto, gay marriage, abortion, school prayer,   
   > restricting birth-right citizenship, and more.   
   >   
   > Seems to me the GOP seeks a banana republic: a toxic blend of right-wing   
   > populism, anti-intellectualism, debt defaults, and an end to the ladder of   
   > economic opportunity. They would divide us into a few Haves and a lot of   
   > Have-Nots. And they would slowly crush the heart of progressive   
   > America—the rising middle class created by Democratic economic policies of   
   > education and empowerment. All while preserving, protecting, and defending   
   > a tiny oligarchy of millionaires and billionaires.   
   >   
   > The right wing should ditch the tricorn hats and replace them with   
   > mirrored sunglasses. They truly are Banana Republicans.   
      
   Boy, was this piece a bunch of bullshit.  Want to see the results of Red   
   States?  http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/04/red-state-rising.html   
      
   The National debt with 8 years of Bush vs 2 years of Hussein:   
   http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1004/the-national-debt-national   
   -debt-obama-bush-political-poster-1272059661.jpg   
      
   How nice of the writer to compliment Clinton without mentioning the   
   Republican Congress that guided him.  Also not mentioned is the economic   
      
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