Branding
Check out the second paragraph, an admission that the whole effort is political crap designed to distort reality.
Then, of course, there's all the coverage that GOP Governors are considering rejecting Stim money (which none of them are going to do.)
I guess all the Republicans have to do is express intent, and they get branding credit. Forget what they actually voted for the last eight years.
House Republicans are setting up "a stimulus-watch program" that will allow watchdog groups and private citizens to report findings as contractors and agencies start spending billions of dollars on roads, schools, renewable energy projects and other initiatives, said House GOP Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia....
Some GOP lawmakers and aides say that even relatively small examples of spending abuse will feed conservative talk shows and fuel criticism of the plan's implementation, just as a handful of dubious items in the bill helped House Republicans mock it and stay united against it.
Then, of course, there's all the coverage that GOP Governors are considering rejecting Stim money (which none of them are going to do.)
I guess all the Republicans have to do is express intent, and they get branding credit. Forget what they actually voted for the last eight years.
posted by mikevotes at
7:12 AM
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After innumerable billions passed through the sieve of no-bid contracts and oversight-free spending in Iraq -- defended by Republicans as "you can't micromanage every nickle!" -- Republicans are now apoplectic at that though that some stimulus money will be spent, in their view, wastefully. Never mind that the money will be accounted for.
It's beyond me why this hypocrisy isn't being reported as the political stunt that it is. I would think Obama would want to get out ahead on this. Then again, he's smarter the me. Maybe we should just give these Republicans as much rope as they want...
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-epm, at 9:29 AM
And it's not just reporting the hypocrisy in the position change, it's actually being complicit in promoting the idea.
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mikevotes, at 10:26 AM
The GOP is trying to "hit the reset button" by saying that they strayed from their core principles under Bush. But it really wasn't some kind of aberration, and anyone elected during those years will have a difficult time explaining why they didn't stand up for those "core principles" during the Bush Administration.
Maybe they are going to attempt to "clean house" and replace everyone who won office under Bush.
This is the kind of strategy that would have worked in 2002 when nobody really examined what the Party said critically. They seem to think that they can assert virtually anything and nobody will doubt them or question it. It doesn't take wonkish policy analyses to deflate these GOP assertions, though. I also think that many Republican leaders still haven't grasped the power of the Internet to pull up these bizarre stunts and crazy statements years later to humiliate them.
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Todd Dugdale , at 7:11 PM
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