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If The Right Were Intellectually Honest ...

Started by Mom, February 25, 2009, 10:47:58 AM

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Mom

This Manzi post would be their argument going forward. Here's why they are not being intellectually honest, and Manzi's post includes the relevant facts. The GOP has passed what amounts to a spending and tax-cutting and borrowing stimulus package every year since George W. Bush came to office. They have added tens of trillions to future liabilities and they turned a surplus into a trillion dollar deficit - all in a time of growth. They then pick the one moment when demand is collapsing in an alarming spiral to argue that fiscal conservatism is non-negotiable. I mean: seriously.

The bad faith and refusal to be accountable for their own conduct for the last eight years is simply inescapable. There is no reason for the GOP to have done what they have done for the last eight years and to say what they are saying now except pure, cynical partisanship, and a desire to wound and damage the new presidency. The rest is transparent cant.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/02/what-should-we.html

Exterminator

The GOP is not interested in the long term fiscal health of this country. Their reckless stewardship over the last eight years proves that. They are not interested in helping this new president, who has done everything he can to create a civil atmosphere, to use this moment to prevent the worst in the short term and move to improve matters in the long term. Instead, they spin.

Our resident neocon self-appointed economic experts are a perfect example of this...spin, spin, spin but never let go of the misguided (and soundly disproven) economic ideologies that got us into this mess.
Arguing with Christians is like playing chess with a pigeon.  No matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, shit on the board and strut around like it's victorious.

The truth is slow, but relentless. Over time it becomes irresistible.

Doc

You can't bury the truth.

No matter how hard you try, it keeps coming back.

THe looney left have tried to destroy this country, and the future will not be kind to them. This is just another nail in the coffin of the Michael Moore/Al Gore party.

Ma and Pa

I sure miss the REAL Democratic party. (Sigh.)

Exterminator

Quote from: Doc on February 27, 2009, 11:05:56 PM
You can't bury the truth.

No matter how hard you try, it keeps coming back.

THe looney left have tried to destroy this country, and the future will not be kind to them. This is just another nail in the coffin of the Michael Moore/Al Gore party.

Go comb your mullet.
Arguing with Christians is like playing chess with a pigeon.  No matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, shit on the board and strut around like it's victorious.

The truth is slow, but relentless. Over time it becomes irresistible.