GOP Using Fake Economic Crisis to Make Possibly the Most Blatant Power Grab in American History

By Wednesday March 9, 2011



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  1. Dallas says:
    3/9/2011 at 2:57 pm

    #12 MikeN says …If liberals had actually supported Pres Bush’s reform proposals, there would still be surpluses long term..

    I admire your chutzpa to ability to place Bush and surplus in the same sentence.

    Bush paid for a Trillion dollar phony war with a Trillion dollar tax cut. My calculator shows 2 Trillion hole.

    Jon Stewart said it right – the Teabagger congress is debating $40billion cut on a TRILLION dollar deficit! That’s one pea on a dinner table with an 800 pound military PIG and 1/2 Ton macaroni and cheese entitlement serving.

    You clowns are a joke. The only way to dig ourselves out of this shit hole is to raise taxes on where 95% of where the wealth is – controlled by 5% of the wealthiest.

    It is absolutely astonishing.

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  2. bobbo, are we Men of Science, or Devo? says:
    3/9/2011 at 4:21 pm

    Rachael has the best most informative hour long news show on tv. Our country is spiraling the drain because of PUKE policies–domestic, foreign, tax, social, etc on down the line. Everything wrong with Obama is everything he is doing in “aping” BushtheRetard.

    It is amazing to me how effective the PUKES can be on one hand, when not overplayed, like this move against Unions: BRILLIANT!!!!!! Too bad it is a skill set aimed only at feathering the nest of the SUPER RICH while the country that next is made in becomes a cess pool.

    I don’t blame the SUPER RICH. I blame the spineless Dumbocrats, feckless Obama, and the PUKE voting base who really are sucking Donkey Dick. The kiddies will pull the plug.

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  3. Mextli says:
    3/9/2011 at 4:44 pm

    One thing she can’t deny is Republicans got elected. Now they are making changes for the better by dumping the thieves and freeloaders that just take and whine for more and drain the purse of the working family.

    Maybe they should appoint some Czar’s, I hear that’s a good way to sneak a buddy into a position of power.

    Oh, the other thing Maddow can’t deny is her fellow MSNBC toad got fired. Hope she’s next.

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  4. deowll says:
    3/9/2011 at 6:05 pm

    I place the odds at 50/50 that none of the people posting will be able to afford the internet in 10 years.

    I place the odds that none of use will be able to afford to buy fuel for a car in 10 years at 60/40 because it’s an import and nobody is going to want the dollar. That combined with the observation that the emerging economies will out bid us for offshore fuel.

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  5. MikeN says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:06 pm

    What’s hilarious is how so much of the Left acted in support of a boycott by Democrats in Wisconsin. Well now they went ahead and passed the bill without them.

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  6. bobbo, being two faced, PUKES have a big mouth says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:15 pm

    #25–Lyin Mike==just what is “hilarious?” The Lyin PUKE Party was denied a quorum by the valorous Dumbos when the Lying PUKE Party claimed the removal of collective bargaining was a “fiscal” issue. Once the Lying PUKE Party realized their lies were understood they took another few weeks to finally decide to go ahead and act on the truth and pass the removal of collective bargaining as a “NON-FISCAL” issue, which is was/is all along.

    Now, what exactly again is “hilarious?”

    Just you and your Lying PUKE Party revealed for the scoundrels/liars/tools that you are.

    Thats not hilarious, its sad. Very sad.

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  7. Greg Allen says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:41 pm

    Read The Shock Doctrine — it explains the whole conservative strategy.

    http://naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

    The rich conservatives create a crisis and then they use that crisis to grab power and wealth — at the expense of the average person.

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  8. Greg Allen says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:46 pm

    >> MikeN said, on March 9th, 2011 at 8:06 pm
    >> What’s hilarious is how so much of the Left acted in support of a boycott by Democrats in Wisconsin. Well now they went ahead and passed the bill without them.

    You are laughing but good Americans are shocked at the conservatives’ disdain for democracy in their service to billionaires.

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  9. Greg Allen says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:48 pm

    >> Mextli said, on March 9th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
    >> One thing she can’t deny is Republicans got elected. Now they are making changes for the better by dumping the thieves and freeloaders that just take and whine for more and drain the purse of the working family.

    Teachers and cops ARE working people.

    It’s the bankers, brokers and trust-fund babies who drain the economy and created the mess we are in today.

    And the conservatives serve those guys.

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  10. pedro says:
    3/9/2011 at 10:23 pm

    Throw out this repuke president. It’s his fault that the economy is in the tank. No more repuke presidents.

    The lefty loons here are so damned funny…

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  11. Benjamin says:
    3/9/2011 at 11:04 pm

    #29 Greg Allen said, “Teachers and cops ARE working people.”

    I’ll give you teachers, but isn’t it a little presumptuous to call dog-shooting, taze-happy thugs people?

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  12. foobar says:
    3/10/2011 at 2:31 am

    I wonder what would happen if the US had an honest to God liberal President instead of the 20 year string of right wingers they’ve had?

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  13. Bushwacked says:
    3/10/2011 at 3:22 am

    America: Land of the slaves and the home of the braindead.

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  14. ® says:
    3/10/2011 at 4:51 am

    #27 + #29 FTW

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  15. jman says:
    3/10/2011 at 5:49 am

    LOL could this be anymore stupid?

    no economic crisis? power grab?

    because obama tripled the amount of govt bureaucracies that FDR did in the New Deal, but republicans are making a power grab?

    time for you people to quit drinking the kool aid and come back to earth

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  16. Dallas says:
    3/10/2011 at 6:28 am

    #35 Simple minds have difficulty with trends, seeing forests for the trees, seeing beneath the surface, discerning cause and effect. You’re the poster child sheeple!!

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  17. MikeN says:
    3/10/2011 at 8:21 am

    #26, bobbo,

    The Democrats disappeared, so the Republicans had to do what was needed to bring them back. By passing the reduction of collective bargaining rights, and making union dues voluntary, and requiring annual union elections, the Republicans removed the main sticking point for the Democrats’ union masters, they are now able to bring Democrats back to pass the rest of the budget, to which the unions did not object too much. I would have preferred they passed even tougher standalone bills as leverage to force the unions to send their Senators back.

    By the way, it seems I was wrong about the Wisconsin quorum requirements. The bill that was passed includes provisions that state workers have to pay more into their pensions and health care. Are you going to claim that those are not fiscal issues either?

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  18. Taxed Enough Already Dude says:
    3/10/2011 at 8:42 am

    What about Soros Sock Puppet Obama and DNC’s fake economic data to support continued wrecking of the US Economy.

    A third of the US is on the dole, 21% before Obama’s wrecking ball policies.

    When will the affirmative action President be blamed for his incompetence, or willful destruction of America’s economy?

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  19. MikeN says:
    3/10/2011 at 9:47 am

    Bobbo,
    Pres Obama wishes to freeze federal pay for 2 years. This would be impossible if federal workers had the collective bargaining rights available to Wisconsin employees. So clearly eliminating collective bargaining is a fiscal measure.

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  20. MikeN says:
    3/10/2011 at 11:48 am

    Should be Democrats using fake union crisis to make the most blatant power grab in American history.
    Staying away from the legislature until the majority gives them what they want.

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