Due to the reduced attention-span and 'reality'-shrouded memories of the LumpenSheeple, by this time next year, thanks to the Pukes and with the all-too-predictable, lop-dog connivance of the CorpoRat SCUM (SoCalledUnbiasedMedia), nobody other than (left) bloggers and (honest) historians will recall that the wars in Central Asia and the economic collapse were the fault of the Busheviks...

So Obama has been in office for less than two months, and the economy is his problem? Ari Fleischer is a spin machine. The GOP is desperate to paint Obama as a partisan, so then they can rally the Republican voters against him is all. Bi-partisanship is a two way street, Obama offered up the opportunity but the GOP spit in his face. And it was the Republicans who've been talking about the Obama Economy and the Bush-Obama Policies, is he just supposed to take that framing because of his bi-partisan desires? Let Republicans smear him and skew reality into a nice little frame job where Obama is to blame for the Bush economic meltdown?

Nice try Ari. You want it both ways - either you get to smear him with flat-out lies or he sets the record straight and they you cry that he is being partisan.

Was Obama supposed to fix the economy in two friggin months? The whole Post article is a hatchet job.

Government doesn't create wealth? I'm sure the stockholders of Haliburton, Brown & Root, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin will be dismayed to hear that.

I recently read an article, that I cannot lay my hands on right now, that noted that the reason Republicans and Democrats seem to be speaking different languages and living in different worlds is that the Republican ideology depends upon direct effects and simply cannot countenence the existence of indirect effects.

As a result, we have people like Sen. Crankypants here insisting that government basically just vacuums money out of the wallets of our put-upon rich people and hardworking white working class people and then just dumps it all into a big-ass hole somewhere, never to be seen again. A dollar spent by government just *poof* disappears from the economy, never to be seen again. It is never received by anyone and thus never spent by the recipient.

No, its not just a sham to fool the rubes. They really believe it.

But Penis Cheney said that deficits didn't matter. He said Ray-gun proved that. And we all know that Repo-public-scum just love Ray-gun.

I've heard this "OBAMA'S APPROVAL RATINGS GOING DOWN" story quite a bit this weekend. I just heard it on the Washington Week podcast. I follow polls pretty closely, and the fact of the matter is that they've been basically unchanged for months. I waited to hear what 'poll' these people were referring to, but they never mention it.

Just another example of how, as Josh says it, DC is "wired" for Republican talking points. Eric Cantor could say "broccoli is pink" and the yapping heads would repeat it all week.

If government does not create wealth, how do the conservatives explain the so called business need of TIF (Tax Increment Financing)?

Sen. Blanche Lincoln is now already getting re-election support from an administration whose pro-labor legislative agenda she has shown hesitancy to support.

Isn't anyone at the Post embarassed by the reference to Obama's recession??

By the time the election cycle rolls around as I said above, the lumpen-sheeple (under the expert tutelage of the CorpoRat Media) will have internalized the big lie that assigns ALL blame and reponsibility to Obama & the Dims.

Lie big and often ("The Big Lie") and let the sheeple internalize it, whether it it true or believable or not. It is the size of the lie and the repetition that matters...

Works all the time, every time...

Don't they teach you ANYTHING about propaganda anymore? Annh, mebbe not. It'd be dangerous to the hegemons if EVERYBODY knew what they were up to...

Every time someone objects to the massive transference of monies from the poor and middle class to the rich and super rich, the rich and their minions cry "class warfare." Every time someone resists American hegemony, the Americans and their allies cry "terrorist." Now we are surprised that those who point out that Bush and the Republicans left a big mess are called partisan? Folks, when the rich complain about class warfare they are admitting that they have committed war crimes against the poor and middle class. When resisters of the American empire are called terrorists, it is an admission of American terrorism. When complaints are made about partisanship, it is an admission that these people are the most partisan people on the block.

The Repugs have become the whiner party.

Watching the Republicans is like watching someone thrashing hysterically in quicksand. They are overreacting to every thing Obama while the American people are desperate for hope in this economic crisis. It would be like going after Bush right after 911...it's foolish and coming off really unAmerican.

Obama is saying this is Bush's economy and mess because IT IS Bush's economy and mess. Once again ass clowns like Fleshier who created this mess are laying blame at Obama feet. Ari the ass bag still doesn’t fault Bush for 911. Yet the msm eat this bullshit up. Am I blind or is it so obvious what’s going here and no Dem has yet to come out and defend Obama on anything. For once will media act like real journalists? Its’ like Bush and republicans started this huge brush fire encompassing the entire country and they are blaming Obama for starting it and not putting it out yet all the while the republicans are hoarding the water

The dolts and dopes in the msm spew republican talking points and lies as truth and when Obama states the obvious and actual facts the msm takes a shit on him. Nice, so this is how it’s going to be for the next 4 years. The dems better crawl out of their cowardly shells and start having Obama’s back.

Well, look at this stupid idea - taxing employer paid health benefits. Oh, wow, is that a great idea. Just what I need, less take home pay. No doubt the better the health coverage I get from my employer, the less take home pay I get. I sure will sign on to that - not. Taxes on my health benefits and in return I get absolutely nothing.

Now, if there were a truly universal plan in the works, that might make some sense in transition, but if all you are going to do is tax benefits so that you can more easily push people away from decent employer paid plans onto get rich schemes for profiteering insurance companies no way!

If we aren't careful, in their zeal to deliver health "reform" any "reform" all we're going to get are subprime health insurance policies and our employer paid insurance will go the way of our employer's contribution to our 401K or pension.

All they talk about is cost and all they talk about is trying to force people into getting less medical care. Somehow they never get around to providing health care for those who aren't getting it. All they seem to want to do is to deliver less health care to people who already have it.

If they aren't careful, they're going to turn me into a libertarian.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15health.html?_r=1&hp

>>If they aren't careful, they're going to turn me into a libertarian>>

Let's hope this happens. Then maybe you'll take your depressing bullshit to NoQuarter or RedState where every comment is about "how Obama is destroying the world." You'll fit right in there.

I realize that intellectual honesty cannot displace the culture of dogma that rules a faith based organization like the Republican Party. But, any fair reading of history would conclude that the reason that democracy is a better governing model is that it permits society to learn and react to its mistakes. Let there be no doubt about it, the experiment in governance that was labeled by the oxymoron ‘compassionate conservatism’ was an abject and total failure on just about every level. For evidence of this we need look no further than the three signature events that will define this generation for decades to come. Of course, I am referring to: 1) the only large scale attack (successful or otherwise) on the continental United States in 2 lifetimes. 2) Iraq; the 100 billion dollar war of pique that was illegally engaged and mismanaged under false pretenses. 3) The financial meltdown that all layers of society are living and dying through as you read this. It is undeniable that all of these things happened on the watch of the previous regime. One can argue that this does not prove a cause and effect relationship that can be laid at the feet of the Republican governance model but a reasonable mind should at least consider the possibility. To have the powers that be in the GOP now claim that any suggestion of blame is inspired by politics and not facts only serves to further diminish their already damaged credibility.

In my mind anyway… this latest headline points out one of the fundamental problems that led the Republicans to their current situation. They tend to treat any crisis as a public relations problem solvable by spin instead of actually solving the underlying problem. At some point they need to come out of the river of denial and accept responsibility for their actions, change their methods and move on.

When you are preaching to the choir and are trying to remedy a problem with harmonics it less than helpful for you to urge them to just sing the same notes LOUDER.