The Republican Party’s Bizarro Economics
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 12th, 2011 5:32 am by HL
The Republican Party’s Bizarro Economics
Bob Shrum, The Week
With the economy finally, plainly on the mend, the Republican response – perhaps predictable from the party of death panels – is to deploy a bodyguard of lies* about both the causes of the crash and the reasons for the recovery.Up in New Hampshire last weekend, the latest reincarnation of Mitt Romney purloined the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan "” is there anything authentic left about Mitt? "” to denounce “the Obama Misery Index.” He blamed the president for “soaring numbers of Americans enduring unemployment, foreclosures and…
Circus Investigates Muslim Extremism
David Paul Kuhn, RealClearPolitics
The first Muslim member of Congress wept. Two moderate Muslims, whose kin became extremists, called for confronting Muslim extremists. Democrats accused Republicans of painting all Muslims as extremists. Republicans framed Democrats as politically correct extremists. Lawmakers were careful to say most Muslims are not extremists. A Democrat lectured Republicans for investigating Islamic terrorism and not the KKK. Photographs of the World Trade Center attacks hung beneath the chandeliers. One protester wore a sign urging lawmakers to oppose bigotry. “We can call everybody a bigot or an…
