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This week, House Republicans unveiled their alternative budget -- a wafer-thin proposal that contained no precise numbers. But the plan did have one big idea: a massive tax cut for rich people! Talk about being tone deaf to the times. While announcing what he called "The Republican Road to Recovery," John Boehner said, "Our economic plan amounts to less government, lower taxes and economic prosperity" -- forgetting, it seems, that the first two had been the GOP roadmap while in power the last eight years and had led to the exact opposite of prosperity. Elsewhere in the GOP, Michael Steele claimed that his many gaffes since taking over the RNC had actually been part of a master plan. "It's all strategic," he said. This coming from the guy in charge of strategy for the loyal opposition. Be afraid. I'm guest hosting CNBC's Squawk Box next Tuesday morning and I'd love your suggestions, which you can put in the comments to this post.
Knowing the enemy you're up against is the first step toward coming up with a winning strategy.
In quick succession, Republicans have lambasted President Obama as the second coming of V.I. Lenin. Their silly, discredited, and thoroughly desperate commie slur of Obama is not new.
Limbaugh often says that he's broadcasting "with talent on loan from God." It seems more and more that conservatives are attempting to find their way out of the political wilderness with talent on loan from Rush.
Eric Cantor is getting a lesson on what "fair use" isn't: his chest-beating, stimulus-opposing, victory-proclaiming video set to the tune of Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle."
While it makes a lot of sense for individual House Republicans to oppose Obama initiatives, claims that such self-interest somehow comprises a national comeback strategy is delusional.
Brit Hume's jihad against the facts represents only a small portion of the historical misrepresentations passed off as reasoned debate about the New Deal.
In bad economic times, artists are among the most vulnerable people in the workforce.
Unruly congressional Republicans will not deal in good faith and there is nothing they would like better than to ruin Obama's day -- or presidency.
Republicans are arguing about what dishes to set out on the Titanic instead of lowering the life boats.
Obama's success in these first two weeks has forever changed our expectations of a new President and how he or she should behave.
I hope the Republican Party leadership continues to play their game like it is 1993 instead of 2009. They seem to be the only ones who have yet to hear that the economy is in shambles.
The same political Neanderthals that helped execute their disastrous strategy of the last two election cycles are still firmly in control of House Republicans.
While Republicans are free to oppose Obama's solutions to the financial mess if they think they have better ideas, merely advocating the old failed policies should not be tolerated.
Obama tried to charm them, Rush tried to bully them. And the results are in. Round 1 goes by unanimous decision to Rush Limbaugh.
Obama tried to go the extra mile, made compromises, tried to be bipartisan within the context of an election which Democrats won. And what did he get? Literally, nothing. Not one Republican vote. Not one.
