Republican opposition to President Obama's Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is hypocritical, based on the very racial divisiveness it claims to oppose.
Charles Blow nails it:
Someone pinch me. I must be dreaming.
Some of the same Republicans who have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years, are now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist. Oh, the hypocrisy!
The same Newt Gingrich who once said that bilingual education was like teaching “the language of living in a ghetto” tweeted that Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist.” The same Rush Limbaugh who once told a black caller to “take that bone out of your nose and call me back” called Sotomayor a “reverse racist.” The same Tom Tancredo, a former congressman, who once called Miami, which has a mostly Hispanic population, “a third world country” said that Sotomayor “appears to be a racist.”
This is rich.
The column is linked.
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Showing posts with label college republicans. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Republicans stand in the way of economic recovery
Harley Davidson's layoffs are another indicator that the economy is in a freefall.
That is why most economists support the Obama administration's push for a large stimulus package. Private demand (consumption and private investment) is non-existent. The only way to reverse the economy's decline is through increased public demand.
President Obama has proposed an $825 billion stimulus package. Many economists think that Obama's proposal is too modest and that a stimulus in the range of $1.3 trillion is needed.
But not the Republican Party!
The very same Republican leaders who remained silent as President Bush ran record deficits nearly doubling the national debt are now expressing concern over Obama's plan.
These are the very same politicians who refused to extend unemployment benefits, increase food stamp expenditures and expand health care for children from low-income families a little more than a year ago. The only economic recovery measures they support are tax cuts, one of the least effective forms of stimulus.
The right's failure to recognize the severity of the crisis and to endorse an effective federal responses has contributed to the loss of 2.4 million jobs in the last year, more than a million in the last two months.
Once again they are digging in their heels and opposing federal action. President Obama has exhibited restraint in responding to this ideologically motivated opposition. But people are hurting and the Republican Party is standing in the way of help.
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman summarized the Republicans opposition in his New York Times Column, "Bad Faith Economics" today: "Basically conservatives are throwing up any objection they can think of against the Obama plan hoping something will stick."
President Obama politely listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders last Friday - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
In an earlier interview President Obama was clear about his negotiating style. Right-wing ideologues who have led their party toward irrelevancy and the country to the brink of economic disaster ought to remember what the President had to say.
That is why most economists support the Obama administration's push for a large stimulus package. Private demand (consumption and private investment) is non-existent. The only way to reverse the economy's decline is through increased public demand.
President Obama has proposed an $825 billion stimulus package. Many economists think that Obama's proposal is too modest and that a stimulus in the range of $1.3 trillion is needed.
But not the Republican Party!
The very same Republican leaders who remained silent as President Bush ran record deficits nearly doubling the national debt are now expressing concern over Obama's plan.
These are the very same politicians who refused to extend unemployment benefits, increase food stamp expenditures and expand health care for children from low-income families a little more than a year ago. The only economic recovery measures they support are tax cuts, one of the least effective forms of stimulus.
The right's failure to recognize the severity of the crisis and to endorse an effective federal responses has contributed to the loss of 2.4 million jobs in the last year, more than a million in the last two months.
Once again they are digging in their heels and opposing federal action. President Obama has exhibited restraint in responding to this ideologically motivated opposition. But people are hurting and the Republican Party is standing in the way of help.
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman summarized the Republicans opposition in his New York Times Column, "Bad Faith Economics" today: "Basically conservatives are throwing up any objection they can think of against the Obama plan hoping something will stick."
President Obama politely listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders last Friday - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
In an earlier interview President Obama was clear about his negotiating style. Right-wing ideologues who have led their party toward irrelevancy and the country to the brink of economic disaster ought to remember what the President had to say.
Monday, October 20, 2008
On November 4th remember which political party is been better for your wallet?
Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants
By TOMMY McCALL
Since 1929, Republicans and Democrats have each controlled the presidency for nearly 40 years. So which party has been better for American pocketbooks and capitalism as a whole? Well, here’s an experiment: imagine that during these years you had to invest exclusively under either Democratic or Republican administrations. How would you have fared?
As of Friday, a $10,000 investment in the S.& P. stock market index* would have grown to $11,733 if invested under Republican presidents only, although that would be $51,211 if we exclude Herbert Hoover’s presidency during the Great Depression. Invested under Democratic presidents only, $10,000 would have grown to $300,671 at a compound rate of 8.9 percent over nearly 40 years.
(reprinted from the New York Times, October 14, 2008)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Republican try to hide their Hurricane Katrina failures!
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports today that Republican spokesman are criticizing Barack Obama for continuing to campaign while New Orleans was threatened by Hurricane Gustav.
Do these guys think the American people are that gullible?
When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf three years ago, Republican President George W. Bush and his appointees ignored the unfolding tragedy while hundreds died on their rooftops and thousands were turned into domestic refugees.
Do the Republican PR flaks really think that by attacking Barack Obama they will make people forget that their presumptive Presidential nominee, John McCain, was safely celebrating his birthday in Arizona with none other than "You're doing a hell of a job Brownie" President George W. Bush while hundreds were dying and 30,000 occupied the Superdome?
Or that the President's mother, Barbara Bush actually declared the Katrina was beneficial when she declared: " What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
McCain and his handlers are feigning sensitivity and compassion for the folks in the Gulf Coast because when Katrina hit they exhibited neither.
While some Republican simply ignored the plight of the mainly black and poor victims of Katrina, others, like 10-term Republican Rep. Richard H. Baker from Baton Rouge, celebrated the devastation when he told to a room of lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."
Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who cynically attempted to use the tragedy to privatize the National Weather Service, went so far as to suggest punishing people who had ignored pre-storm evacuation orders.
The Republican Party's criticism of Barack Obama is a none to transparent attempt to bury their failure to humanely respond when Katrina devastated the people and the Gulf Coast region.
Have they no shame?
Do these guys think the American people are that gullible?
When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf three years ago, Republican President George W. Bush and his appointees ignored the unfolding tragedy while hundreds died on their rooftops and thousands were turned into domestic refugees.
Do the Republican PR flaks really think that by attacking Barack Obama they will make people forget that their presumptive Presidential nominee, John McCain, was safely celebrating his birthday in Arizona with none other than "You're doing a hell of a job Brownie" President George W. Bush while hundreds were dying and 30,000 occupied the Superdome?
Or that the President's mother, Barbara Bush actually declared the Katrina was beneficial when she declared: " What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
McCain and his handlers are feigning sensitivity and compassion for the folks in the Gulf Coast because when Katrina hit they exhibited neither.
While some Republican simply ignored the plight of the mainly black and poor victims of Katrina, others, like 10-term Republican Rep. Richard H. Baker from Baton Rouge, celebrated the devastation when he told to a room of lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."
Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who cynically attempted to use the tragedy to privatize the National Weather Service, went so far as to suggest punishing people who had ignored pre-storm evacuation orders.
The Republican Party's criticism of Barack Obama is a none to transparent attempt to bury their failure to humanely respond when Katrina devastated the people and the Gulf Coast region.
Have they no shame?
Monday, July 23, 2007
College Republicans support Iraq War but won't serve!
College Republicans support the Iraq War, but can't ("I have medical problems otherwise I would") or won't ("I have more important obligations") serve. They support the troops as long as they aren't one of them!
Guess they are following in their Commander in Chief's footsteps. I wonder if the Texas National Guard has any openings?
Guess they are following in their Commander in Chief's footsteps. I wonder if the Texas National Guard has any openings?
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