CBO Takes Tan Man Boehner to the Woodshed
John Boehner's economic speech yesterday offered a golden opportunity for Democrats to ridicule, rebut, and remind everyone about who is really responsible for this shaky economy.
In what could possibly be one of the best speech edits ever, Ed Schultz lays out exactly what Boehner said: Nothing. Well, Boehner did tell everyone what he thought the President should do, and he said something about putting the adults in charge, too. My retort to that would be to suggest that he get out of the bars and the golf courses long enough to think straight, but that's just me.
The CBO had its own retort to this:
All this 'stimulus' spending has gotten us nowhere.
CBO says, "OhReally?"
First, as a real-world matter, economic growth was pretty slow in the second quarter (April to June), but the CBO report makes clear that without the stimulus, it wouldn't have grown at all. In other words, a stimulus helped lead to tepid growth -- the absence of a stimulus would have been significant economic contraction.
Second, this CBO data, like reports from the Council of Economic Advisors and the Office of Management and Budget, should effectively end the debate about whether the Recovery Act did what it set out to do. The stimulus effort was too small -- criticism from conservative Republicans is completely backwards -- but as designed, it was intended to give the economy a significant boost, and save and create millions of jobs. It did exactly that. Anyone who argues otherwise is either not paying attention or is being willfully dishonest.
What? TanMan dishonest? Say it isn't so!
Everyone sing along now:
The stimulus worked.
It really, really worked.
It could have worked better
If it was bigger,
But it still really
Worked.
Meanwhile, Boehner should be watching his back right now, because Eric Cantor hasn't made any secret out of his heart's desire to replace Nancy Pelosi, even while murmuring soft whispers of support for his orange counterpart. While Boehner may be today's minority leader, the Club for Growth is not all that happy with him (or Cantor, for that matter).
Of course, Club for Growth funds candidates like hand-picked Rove choice Tim Griffin, Rand Paul, Pat Toomey and Marco Rubio, so give their disapproval of Boehner and Cantor the full weight it deserves. Then consider helping Justin Coussoule send Boehner to the golf course for good?
When did orange become tan?
And won't Cantor need a little "perfection" before the Caucus lets him be Speaker?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
...as long as they're dues-paying Republicans. They turned President McCain (or exposed his hard-right leanings, anyway). Eric Cantor? no biggie.
Cantor has yet to have his Coultergeist imperfections exorcised. Or is it circumvented?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
That is information that no one has has not shared a locker with Cantor should have young lady. Of course, you could have heard it through the grapevine I suppose.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I should retract that, I guess....that's a sight I am not wanting to see.
circumspect?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Is it true that C & L abandoned the orange motif because of John Boehner?
Boehner knew the CBO report was coming out yesterday, as did the rest of the GOP.
He gave this speech deliberately to stop the positive CBO report from being the story of the day and news cycle. He knew his speech was bullshit. It was all deliberate, and the speech segwayed nicely into the GOP meme of the day that the President is incompetent.
The Democrats simply have no clue how to control the message of the day. Unless of course it's to attack their progressive base.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Democrats are horrible at message management. It is as if they enjoy reacting to everything.
For once, we agree...
I'm sure it was only a fluke. ; o )
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
reporting this...Saw one small article at the very bottom of Huff Post..Push this out to the local outlets hard and fast...Call congress and ask them to use this on the Sunday talking heads.. 1.800.828.0498
the dickiest battle--evah!!!
“The stated intent of the so-called stimulus package was to create jobs, and certainly a $57 million slush-fund studying projects did nothing to achieve that goal. With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, I’m pleased that federal officials stepped in to order Ohio to use all of its construction dollars for shovel-ready projects that will create much-needed jobs.” -- J. Boehner 6-15-09
http://boehner.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle....
oh, political theater, why are you so entertaining...
I have ever seen from him. I need to find a way to fave comments so I can save that one.
john, or whoever the tech monkey for C&L is, should set up a page of notable quotes along side all the other C&L mini-sites.
that would be a great place for the ike-MIC-warning type historical quotes, blatant hypocrisy quotes (like boehner's), and other handy-dandy quotes
It’s been a while and I’d like to enquire on exactly what the heck is going on. Hopefully something creative, or at least clever. Nevertheless, life keeps bursting into my bathroom and throwing a plugged in toaster into the bubbly water of my bath, as I try to wash the whiff of less than fantastic results of my ever-continuing crusade against all that is stupid, baseless, and just plain irritating. Yep, it’s not working. Let me explain.
It seems that, for reasons that remain equally concealed from the glaring light of logic and insight, a vast majority of teabaggers and friends are being manipulated into finding both stupidly thick yet unique ways to self-destruct, or at least make a further muck of the seemingly downward arc of misguided efforts to live in some “better time” that exists only in there constricted minds, all brought to them courtesy of Faux “news” and the Saudi that partly owns it. A some of them, it appears, have resorted to combining unwise dosages of prescription drugs and alcohol based nostrums, I guess to further blunt a fading sense of self-awareness and personal loathing, or so it would seem, as they update the lampshade-on-the-head pratfall to the current lingua franca of slackerism, a performance made oh-so-painful to watch, as, at their age, they don’t wear it so well. And yet whilst this is going on, I also get to observe co-dependency in repose, as other conservatives battle the forces of conscience and common sense, flinging drama, subterfuge, and diabolic conspiracies in order to ingest/numb themselves as they wait to hit the wall or reality, or at least take bed space in the ICU. To say the least, I am not amused, nor do I use all these five dollar words to impress you, myself, or whoever is reading my missives in the back room. They say that an epiphany ultimately results in something construed as positive, yet this one, as it’s been a long time coming, hit me with the force of Nolan Ryan fastball. Having been (for some reason) diligent in my viewing habits in high school when they were trying to scare us with all the anti-drug/booze films in second semester health, unless they were lying to me (Remember: To trip is to fall, and don’t mention babies at all!), I know where this is going to end up. And it’s not going to be pretty. In preparation, I’ve found a place to hide and I’m afraid there’s only room for one.
And it's good to see that the toaster didn't negatively impact your voluminosity.
Wasn't Club For Growth behind these?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDk_ZfYuyfY&fe...
And
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShkhIXdf1Y&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Is an atheist, like me. I'm ultra left wing by Merkin standards (I grew up in Australia). So, on our return from visiting the grand kids in Atlanta in January 2008, we stopped in at his McMansion in Cincinnazi (he's a P&G Chemist) and spent a day with him and his family. The next day, an ice storm was approaching, so he asked us to babysit the kids until the schoolbus arrived. We dutifully complied. Anyway. got talking to the kids and asked who did dad vote for. McCain! 'Cause BIL lives in Boner's district and is loaded. Got the rugrats on the bus and lit outta there. We haven't spoken since. I was horrified that a person could be atheist and stupid.
why we have to defend tim geitner??? he's a corporate, wall street shill--is and always will be. aren't we smart enough to be able to attack a loser like boehner without defending another loser like geitner?
Obama should never select or keep economic advisors without checking in first with Boehner and Pence. And he should get spiritual advise from Ted Haggard...empathy lessons from Dick Cheney, etc.
I read that headline as "CBO takes Boner to the woodshed". (I always call him Boner.) Sounds kinda naughty, no?
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
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