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January 29th, 2009:

A Second Look: Pelosi: GOP Failing On Policy, House Speaker Says Dems Will Be Accountable For $819B Plan, Republicans Unwilling To Act – CBS News

Jan 29th, 2009
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via Pelosi: GOP Failing On Policy, House Speaker Says Dems Will Be Accountable For $819B Plan, Republicans Unwilling To Act – CBS News.

The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi

CBS/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that while critics may quibble with some elements of spending in the President Barack Obama’s $819 billion economic rescue plan, Democrats were willing to act – and Republicans were not.

The Republicans would have been willing to act if this bill was larger and in was all about corporate tax cuts. Yesterday Minority Leader Boehner told the press that the Republicans had a different version that would create over 6 million new jobs without explaining how it would to so.

That is the same BS we heard from Bush for so long.

The Republicans have nothing on their plate but tax cuts and more tax cuts and we all know how tax cuts have failed to keep our economy afloat during the last eight years. We hemorrhaged jobs.

“Republicans asked for several things so that they could participate in the process, and we gave them all of the opportunities they asked for,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CBS News Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez.

Since the Republicans got all they asked for, then the unanimous vote against the $819 billion recovery act was nothing but political posturing.

“But it serves their purpose, when you’re failing on the policy argument, you talk about process. And after that, you talk about personalities. They are failing on the policy aspects,” Pelosi told Rodriguez in the exclusive interview Wednesday.

They are failing on the policy aspects. Amen. They are also failing to convince. Boehner’s cliam that tax cuts can create more jobs than spending is stupid. Stupidity is repeating behaviors that have not worked in hopes that the next time they will. Listening to failed Republican politicians as though they are still relevant is equally stupid.

Want to laugh? Boehner said this on FOX News January 23rd:

“Our plan offers fast-acting tax relief, not slow-moving and wasteful government spending,” Boehner said.

Slow acting, non-productive tax relief for the rich.

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A Second Look: Republicans Gather for National Meeting – washingtonpost.com

Jan 29th, 2009
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via Republicans Gather for National Meeting – washingtonpost.com.

For GOP, a Case of Misshapen Identity

By Manuel Roig-Franzia

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, January 29, 2009; Page C01

This article is about, as the title suggests, Republicans wandering in the darkness trying to spin themselves in a new and refreshing way. They are trying (in vain) to remake themselves.

The article covers the four day winter meeting of RNC and it is too long and wordy, or maybe too flowery. An article like this should have more power, but the author lets the Republicans off the hook. He is much too gentle. To have more of an impact it should be more poignant, more get-to-the-point then turn the knife. On the upside, he does include some quote-ables. Forget the narrative, the dialogue is much more….there.

Can you hear them scream?

“We’re in this rebuilding time,” Monica Notzon, a Washington-based Republican fundraiser, helpfully explained this month. “Trying to figure out who we are.”

Which way from here? Republican Party officials from across the country gathered at the Capital Hilton for a winter meeting.

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“Republican for a reason?” says Stephen Scheffler, a committeeman from Iowa, pausing before a banner carrying the slogan. “I don’t know what that means.”

So, what’s a Republican to do? Definitely some “soul-searching,” says John Czwartacki, who was a top aide to then-Sen. Trent Lott in better times for Republicans.

“I don’t think the Republican Party needs to take a Paxil,” Czwartacki says. “But it needs quiet time to reevaluate things.”

The party’s “deeds did not match its words. Did not rein in spending. Did not rein in earmarks,” Bopp says.

“In many ways we got what we deserved,” Kaufman says.

On the airwaves and in print, the Republicans keep blasting away, gnawing on each other’s tender wounds. There’s former congressman Tom Davis, once the chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, declaring in op-eds that “our party is broken”

“The Republican Party is making a big, big — the conservative movement, too — making a big, big mistake in planning for the future,” he told Fox’s Sean Hannity. “You hear things like ‘Well, the Republican Party needs to identify the middle class, the Wal-Mart voters, and come up with policies for them. And then we’ve got to come up with policies for the Hispanics because they hate us due to illegal immigration.’ “

The Republican Party is thrashing around in Dante’s hell sorry that they ever boasted of a “permanent majority” and sorry that they tried to woo the very voters they turned their backs on during eight years of dumbness.

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