From: Cliff on

http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/?story=/opinion/feature/2010/06/30/economy_fail_right
"Americans still held captive by "zombie" lies"
"Figuring out the psychology of "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" "
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It's not simply about making the Obama administration look bad. Many Republicans
actually love economic recessions. No better means of disciplining the labor
force has ever been devised.

That's the real message behind the GOP's Senate filibuster denying extended
federal benefits to roughly a million long-term unemployed. The same bill, which
failed 57-41, would also have provided $16 billion in Medicaid help to states
overburdened by declining tax revenues.

In consequence, several hundred thousand cops, teachers, firefighters and other
public employees are sure to be laid off due to state budget cuts. Fat lot of
good that will do the economy. But working stiffs will be keeping their heads
down, won't they?

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., whose state has the nation's second-highest
unemployment rate (13.6 percent), put it forcefully: "The Republicans in the
Senate want this economy to fail. In cynical political terms ... they want our
country to fail to win an election, and they're willing to take the people of
this country with them."

But that's only part of the story. One of the enduring mysteries of American
life is how Republicans keep succeeding by failing. The presidency of George W.
Bush ought to have inoculated American voters against GOP economic theories for
a generation. Tax cuts for the wealthy led not to greater prosperity, but
runaway budget deficits, a doubled national debt and the weakest job creation
since World War II. See-no-evil financial deregulation damn near destroyed the
world banking system.

By the time President Obama was inaugurated last January, the economy was
bleeding 750,000 lost jobs a month; the Congressional Budget Office had already
projected the FY 2009 deficit at $1.3 trillion -- a budget written by the Bush
White House. After taking over in 2001 with a healthy budget surplus and some
economists warning against paying down the debt too fast, Bush doubled it to
over $10 trillion in eight short years.
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Wingers are just bloody stupid.
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Cliff