The presidential memoir serves an important function in our society. It provides a former president with an opportunity to shape how we will be viewed by history. They aren't easy books to write. Facts create roadblocks that the ex-president must overcome. Most attempt to do so by twisting and tearing at the facts until an acceptable truth emerges. My president, Our Glorious Leader George W. Bush, boldly took another approach. He tortured the facts until they confessed to their treachery. Then, He summarily executed them with a Hellfire-C missile launched from a Predator drone.
The presidential memoir serves an important function in our society. It provides a former president with an opportunity to shape how we will be viewed by history.
They aren't easy books to write. Facts create roadblocks that the ex-president must overcome. Most attempt to do so by twisting and tearing at the facts until an acceptable truth emerges. My president, Our Glorious Leader George W. Bush, boldly took another approach. He tortured the facts until they confessed to their treachery. Then, He summarily executed them with a Hellfire-C missile launched from a Predator drone.
[W]hile the election was certainly not a validation of liberalism, it wasn't an endorsement of Blue Dog–ism either. Obama could have done everything the Blue Dogs wanted and still Republicans would have called him a socialist and voters would have punished the party in power for a bad economy. And the Democratic base would have likely stayed home in even larger numbers as a result.
The Big Money Boyz are enlisting the Teabag freakshow on this for a reason. It's not just the inflation boogeyman either. They clearly want to stop any kind of economic recovery program other than tax cuts, which they know will not work. (They've been tried several times by both Bush and Obama since 2008.)So what's the real point of this? The political strategy has long been clear --- keep the economy distressed in order to unseat Obama. The ideological purpose is clear too -- discredit Keynesianism once and for all so that democratic government will no longer have any role to play in economic crises.
The Big Money Boyz are enlisting the Teabag freakshow on this for a reason. It's not just the inflation boogeyman either. They clearly want to stop any kind of economic recovery program other than tax cuts, which they know will not work. (They've been tried several times by both Bush and Obama since 2008.)So what's the real point of this?
The political strategy has long been clear --- keep the economy distressed in order to unseat Obama. The ideological purpose is clear too -- discredit Keynesianism once and for all so that democratic government will no longer have any role to play in economic crises.
Note to the incoming Republican majority in the House: Eliminating government programs that do not exist does not save money. Of the few specific cuts that Congressional Republicans have proposed in their promised assault on annual budget deficits, one of the biggest by far would save $25 billion over 10 years, they claim, by ending an emergency welfare fund.
Note to the incoming Republican majority in the House: Eliminating government programs that do not exist does not save money.
Of the few specific cuts that Congressional Republicans have proposed in their promised assault on annual budget deficits, one of the biggest by far would save $25 billion over 10 years, they claim, by ending an emergency welfare fund.
That fund has already expired.