Comments on: Come Saturday Morning: Smilin’ Tim’s Mendacity of Dope

By: Waccamaw

Waccamaw — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:43:57 +0000

PW -

Have you crossed paths with a single specific linky that (1) clearly, (2) completely and (3) truly explains the ramifications behind Clyburn’s admendment?

Representative Clyburn’s amendment that compels them to allocate the money within 45 days or turn it over to the state legs

By: BearCountry

BearCountry — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:41:24 +0000

This nonsense on the NewsHour is one reason I haven’t been able to watch for years. All of the correspondents seem to be neocon shills: LIEasson, juan o’reilly, gwen awful, et.al.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:35:58 +0000

It is in the interest of most politicians to forget anything that they may have known about economics- as they practice only the economics of self interest once in office anyway….They are quite capable of blabbering incoherently the gruel that they absolutely KNOW to be total bullshit if it serves their purpose.

Perhaps you make the mistake of supposing that politicians are actually trying to say true things?

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:30:02 +0000

I saw the Pawlenty prformance and wondered if PW had. It’s not just that he knows less than nothing about economics but that the NewsHour continues to promote this false balance, he said/she said form of journalism where no matter the subject they present the two sides as equal even if one of those sides contains only dribbling idiot nutcases.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:25:18 +0000

The thing about the stimulus is that it’s going to create lots more Democrats. People will see the shiny new schools and enjoy the broadband and the clean energy the stimulus has given them. This will especially be helpful in conservative parts of the Rust Belt.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:22:52 +0000

The beauty of the stimulus is in the headlines in our local papers:

– “Cash-strapped local school districts welcome stimulus money”

– “Rural internet users, companies hail broadband stimulus”

– “Local steel mills fill more orders for stimulus-funded wind turbines”

This is why the governors that aren’t already with the program will have to get with it, and soon. (Especially with Representative Clyburn’s amendment that compels them to allocate the money within 45 days or turn it over to the state legs — which Pawlenty won’t want to do as his state lege is controlled by the Dems.)

By: BearCountry

BearCountry — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:22:50 +0000

I would still like to see the economic recovery money only to go to states that voted for it in the Senate; half could go to states where the vote was split. Within a state that gets the money, only districts that voted for it should get the money. This should be done with a BIG explanation of why the money is distributed in this way. If a state or district voted against it, that entity really doesn’t want the money and shouldn’t be FORCED in any way to take it.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:22:04 +0000

Or maybe “Crak-uhhh-stan” as one emphasizes the phonetic articulation of the drawl so common in the region.

By: rwcole

rwcole — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:10:46 +0000

The gooper strategy in the deep red states is simple:

Cut taxes to the bone- and spend as close to zero on education as possible- that way the voters won’t be able to READ anything negative about the gooper party.

By: GregB

GregB — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:03:46 +0000

A region known as Crackerstan.

-G

To any FDL-ers from said region, tis a joke.