Republicans say they're the new Taliban, this is not a joke. Unreal. Options

[Truth be known]

Nice...real nice you fuckin' douchebag.

Pete Sessions ® - Texas

"Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban," Sessions said. "And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -- I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with."

Sessions said the "Taliban" approach was a reaction to a lack of bipartisan outreach from House Democrats.

When asked to clarify:

"I simply said one can see that there's a model out there for insurgency," Sessions said before being interrupted by an aide. The staffer said Sessions was trying to convey that the Republicans need to start thinking about how to act strategically from their perch in the minority.

[benhamean]

Well, the deficit did climb quite a bit after 9/11 and the recession that coincided with it.
However, the deficit was coming down every year until last year.

Now, suddenly it's becoming OK to talk about spending almost a trillion dollars
that the government doesn't have. The whole scale has been changed.

And why is there such a rush to get this thing done immediately?
Isn't it somewhat like - dare I say - the runup to the war with Iraq?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/06/news/econo...nuary/index.htm

+ Stock market down 50% or so
+ Lending frozen
+ Foreclosures through the roof

= Reality. The data is there, for you to read.



That is why the scale has changed. Bush created his deficit (out of a surplus) out of serious fiscal irresponsibility- for no reason.

The notion of running a deficit NOW has a reason- a lot of them, actually (some of which I listed above).

[Dave K.]

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/06/news/econo...nuary/index.htm

+ Stock market down 50% or so
+ Lending frozen
+ Foreclosures through the roof

= Reality. The data is there, for you to read.
That is why the scale has changed. Bush created his deficit (out of a surplus) out of serious fiscal irresponsibility- for no reason.

The notion of running a deficit NOW has a reason- a lot of them, actually (some of which I listed above).

Why does this bad economy require a huge stimulus when other worse economic times didn't?

The deficits under Bush were created by a combination of a recession (the bursting of
the dot com bubble, which was the only reason we had a surplus for a couple of years),
a war, and fiscal irresponsibility (by Bush and Congress). He didn't just sit down and
say "I'm gonna create a deficit just to piss off Benhamean".

[Danny Vermin]

Why does this bad economy require a huge stimulus when other worse economic times didn't?

We like to learn from mistakes to stave off disaster?