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Maine: Rush Limbaugh

March 9, 2009 - 06:43 am
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

Open Thread

By Gerald Weinand

Good morning.

You can start your day - and hence your week - with this bracer by Paul Krugman:

As I read it, this dismissal - together with the continuing failure to announce any broad plans for bank restructuring - means that the White House has decided to muddle through on the financial front, relying on economic recovery to rescue the banks rather than the other way around. And with the stimulus plan too small to deliver an economic recovery ... well, you get the picture.

Sooner or later the administration will realize that more must be done. But when it comes back for more money, will Congress go along?

Republicans are now firmly committed to the view that we should do nothing to respond to the economic crisis, except cut taxes - which they always want to do regardless of circumstances.

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March 6, 2009 - 09:13 am
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

Rush gets pwned (1990)

By Gerald Weinand

Just watch (h/t AJS):

The money quote:

"You have no idea what I say, whether I mean it or not."

Now I know that there are conservatives that really believe in their ideology, but people like Rush Limbaugh, that have great influence, can and often do say things which they don't believe, they are just paid to do so. In much the same way that union member Vincent Curatola acted in an anti-union ad.

They themselves will likely never be affected by the draconian laws that they will help enact, since their money allows them access to services that regular people cannot afford. Hypocrite does not begin to describe them, and I doubt that they spend much time in self-delusion justifying their actions.

It's all about the money.

For more on the veto by then Gov. Cecil Andrus, see this story from 31 March 1990 in the NYTimes.

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