“”After listening to House Republican Leader John Boehner’s speech on the House floor today, it is clear that Americans face a choice: keep moving America forward—or return to what Republicans themselves call the ‘exact same’ agenda of failed ideas that favored corporate special interests, pushed us to the brink of economic disaster and left the middle class and small businesses struggling,” a release from her office reads.”
I keep hearing this chant. Heard it in the Jerry Brwon vs. Whitman debate last night. How is 5% unemployment worse than 10% unemployment?
How is your home being worth what it was worth versus 25% less worse?
How is tripling the budget deficit, as bad or as good as it was under Bush better?
How’s the stock market at DJ 14K worse than the market being at DJ 10.8K?
Is there nobody who can make these comebacks?
“A democratic State will decline from a lowering of its potential, that is of its ever-ready energy to act in a crisis, to correct and to control its servants in common times, to watch them narrowly and suspect them at all times … further fail from the lack of civic aptitude… they deliberately elect to leave the mass of citizens incompetent and irresponsible for generations, so that, when any more strain is upon them, they look at once for some men other than themselves to relieve them, and are incapable of corporate action upon their own account.”
H. Belloc
Just a thought.