Even The Cato Institute Laughs At Republicans
I love the title of this post “If You Call Obama ‘Socialist’ Then the House GOP Is 99% Socialist.”
As I note in a recent New York Post op-ed Republicans are fond of implying that President Obama is a big-spending socialist. But the House GOP recently offered a spending cut plan that was able to find savings worth less than one percent of Obama’s budget.
As Tad DeHaven and Brian Riedl have also pointed out, the GOP spending reform effort is rather pathetic. It proposed specific annual budget cuts of about $14 billion per year.
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Thus, the Brookings scholars found cuts more than twenty times larger than the House GOP leadership cuts, and Brookings proposed its plan back when the deficit was about one-fifth of the size it is today. (Note that both the Brookings and GOP plans would also put a cap on overall nondefense discretionary spending, in addition to these specific cuts).
Even the GOP’s own base is noticing that the GOP is full of hot air. The national GOP has only fantasy and an alternate reality right now. Maybe someday we’ll find some Republicans that are ready to govern, but the GOP in its current form isn’t ready to govern.
Tags: Republican Crazy
The Cato Institute laughing. That’s a good one.
The ‘conservative base’ (myself included) didn’t vote for McCain. He was dead in the water from day one; Palin was the only positive component of his campaign (until McCain’s inept handlers got a hold of her).
Don’t look for the Republicans to run a hapless loser like him in ’12.
Politics is cyclical; no party always wins. Let’s see what the ’10 Congressional races bring.
Don’t look for the Republicans to run a hapless loser like him in ‘12.
I agree. What you need is a more conservative, angrier loser. That will bring you guys back.
Conservatives (including those perceived to be conservative), tend to win. McCain was perceived to be a hapless boob.
Politics is cyclical; no party always wins.
And no party lasts forever.
Conservatives (including those perceived to be conservative), tend to win.
I see. Like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They were conservative, so they won.
Just ban this guy. He has nothing constructive to contribute.
Oh boy, now we’re redefining conservatism again. McCain lost, therefore he isn’t conservative. Never mind his conservative voting record and years of service to the Republican Party.
McCain lost because he was a conservative hothead without any ideas.
Boil it down, UI. He lost because he was perceived to be a conservative. Their last, most pathetic stand is “people actually agree with us.” It’s a faith-based political party, in which a lack of evidence of all they say can be overcome simply by believing harder.
McCain was perceived to be a hapless boob.
Which is why the repub party nominated him. It is the party of hapless boobs.
I am not making this up: We are sending the destroyer USS John McCain to intercept that North Korean ship.
“I see. Like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They were conservative, so they won”
No. Like Nixon, Reagan and GW. Neither Dole nor McCain were deemed conservatives by conservatives.….they lost.
“Just ban this guy. He has nothing constructive to contribute.”….geezer
You’d have fit-in quite well in the Supreme Soviet.