Now, here in Kentucky Progressives are quite used to the laughingstock that is Mitch McConnell. He represents all that is vile and hypocritical about people with his mindset. However, he recently outdid even himself. Remember this gem of wisdom from the guy that looks like Waldo on Meth??:
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."
http://www.politifact.com/...
Well, as if that wasn't ridiculous enough, now so-called "Christian" Conservatives are running an ad using the ridiculous, hypocritical "Jesus" comparison that was hatched from the dark depths of Mitch McConnell's Dark Age mind:
After watching liberal allies of President Barack Obama flood the airwaves in support of the stimulus bill, a conservative third-party group is countering with a provocative new commercial using Jesus Christ to emphasize the scale of the $787 billion package.
The American Issues Project, which briefly aired a TV spot in last year's presidential race, will go up on Friday with a TV spot that marks the dollars spent with the passage of time.
"Suppose you spent $1 million every single day starting from the day Jesus was born — and kept spending through today," says the announcer as an image of the three wise men flashes on the screen. "A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did."
According to Chris LaCivita, an AIP consultant, they are spending just under $1 million on the ad, which will be aired on national cable.
http://www.politico.com/...
Now, I majored in Social Studies with minors in History and Psychology, so I am no Mathmatician. However, it does not take long to add up just how hypocritical this is from McConnell, and the Conservatives that worship him and worshipped George W. Bush in lieu of Christ. Yes, while we are all using Christ for a math lesson, lets try and find the lengths of McConnell and his ilk's hypocrisy.
First, you have the "War in Iraq", a country that did not attack us, and did not have a single hijacker on the 9-11 planes. Before it is over, it's tag will well exceed $1 trillion. Then you have to add another $929 billion as of 2005 for Bush's tax cuts for the very wealthy which Mitch McConnell and Conservative groups lovingly rubber-stamped:
Economy pays price for Bush's tax cuts
Since 2001, changes in tax law have cost the federal government $929 billion, including $860 billion in direct cost and $69 billion in interest.1 Proponents of these tax cuts promised stronger economic gains than were typical of the past, but that did not occur.2 Unfortunately for most Americans, almost every broad measure of economic activity—GDP, jobs, personal income, and business investment, among others—has fared worse over the last four years than in past business cycles.
http://www.epi.org/...
Then you have AT LEAST another $700 billion in TARP money required by a teaming of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and George W. Bush to greedily crash our economy. Now, as I said I am no Mathmetician, but running the numbers can only bring you to one conclusion.
If you spent a million dollars a day from the time that copper was first used in Mesopotamia in 5000 b.c., you still would not have wasted as much money as the hypocritical neo-con wing of the Republican Party led by Mitch McConnell and George W. Bush.
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