This has got to be the joke of the century.

To begin with, the cost of the Obama Economic Stimulus pales to the cost of the Republican blundering that occurred for four consecutive years. The Obama Stimulus is a cost extended over 10 years. That was 10 years.

Then for Republicans to come forward and act as if they have seen 'the light' and are seeking a higher morality is ludicrous beyond any imagination. These very Republicans approved of huge increases in the USA debt and raised the debt ceiling every year. They were nothing more than the pundits of Bush and his reckless Executive Branch.


Rep, Mike Pence, R-Ind., looks on at right as House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 13,2009, after the House passed the stimulus legislation. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

GOP poised to leap on spending abuses in stimulus (click title to entry - thank you)
By CHARLES BABINGTON – 14 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are preparing to pounce on any wasteful spending in the $787 billion stimulus package as they refocus their criticisms of a measure whose success could hurt their 2010 election prospects....

Every bill they wrote was an Republican Economic Stimulus laced with Pork. Some of the pork was so offensive that it even rattled some Republicans and Ted Steven's Road to Nowhere was removed.

The entire set of circumstances we now face is due to uncontrolled Republican spending and the direct result of their abuses of our democracy. They never had a viable economy, but, only reckless and anything goes spending that would provide jobs and a fatal economy that was 'somehow' a crisis in the closing days of Bush's last year in the Executive Branch.

In those final days, the Republicans literally caught the USA off guard and stated 'the sky is falling' to the tune of $700 billion dollars. That was $700 billion to be distributed over a few months, not years. I am only grateful we have a President that has control over $350 billion of those funds and have used not quite $50 billion to formulate a 'Homeowner Package' to stop foreclosures.

Their leaders fell in a house of cards as the scandals of those years unfold. They redirected the war in Afghanistan and stood by to justify it. The Iraq War caused the USA its international reputation and today, even though diplomatic channels are opening wide for Secretary Clinton, there are enormous skeptics to the viability of the USA and its ultimate intentions. Russia is pensive and countries at our near borders see us as a threat in a way they have never viewed us before.

The government under the Republicans practiced human rights abuses with the 'fencing' of Gitmo and torture. Such a mess it is that as noted on Michael Moore's blog today; we are left to untangle the intricacies of it while leaving old policies in place until policy is in place to do otherwise.

February 18th, 2009 8:58 am

Obama’s War on Terror May Resemble Bush’s in Some Areas (click here)
By Charlie Savage
WASHINGTON — Even as it pulls back from harsh interrogations and other sharply debated aspects of George W. Bush's "war on terrorism," the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor's approach to fighting Al Qaeda.
In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama nominees endorsed continuing the C.I.A.'s program of transferring prisoners to other countries without legal rights, and indefinitely detaining terrorism suspects without trials even if they were arrested far from a war zone....

President Obama has a rapid pace 'to change' in our country, but, cautious to remove old measures that could mean danger to citizens. I am confident where Cheney's hand was at play the 'jigsaw puzzle' and 'torture maze' is significant. Cheney no doubt had paper shredders galore and documentation that parralleled everthing he did. The 'actual' happenings within the intelligence department, where Dick made his home among some of the youngest of employees, will only be known years in the offing and 'to decide' what is fact and what is fiction will no doubt be a daughting task.

In other words, the man that 'cooked the books' at Halliburton, certainly did the same within the intelligence agencies of our government.

All the same people that sanctioned the 'ruin' of the USA now stand as if saints rather than sinners to ridicule the Democrats elected to office to stop their idiocy and wrongful adminsitrations. They scream about oversight to the Obama Stimulus when they know full well they don't have to raise a finger as the Stimulus Package has oversight built into it. They are liars and manipulators and seek to 'grandstand' an issue that doesn't even exist to try to begin a return of a political party that would be better written off in the history books.

When political practices are based in lies and inuendoes, what do you think their administrations are like? I am grateful they are grossly in the minority. They need to be removed from office in 2010. We don't need liars. We don't need 'image makers.' We need people that can protect Americans from the ravages of untruth and exaggerated ideas of economics. The Republicans have never known what viable economics are, they only know what gets them elected.



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We don't belong in Iraq.

We never did.