{"id":2321,"date":"2010-07-20T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2010-07-20T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:00:16","slug":"voodoo-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/voodoo-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Voodoo Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Last night Rachel Maddow had an excellent piece on Republican economic policy, which she discussed with Oregon\u2019s Jeff Merkley.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc6d11fd\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=38316915^0^615078&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc6d11fd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=38316915^0^615078&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 420px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Pure and simple, what Republicans are saying about extending tax cuts for the rich is a lie, and Republicans from the old days, before the GOP lost its last shreds of sanity, are calling them on it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I am glad I worked to help Jeff Merkley defeat goose-stepping Gordon Smith, the \u201cprogressive\u201d GOP Senator who was willing to cross the line, but only when we didn\u2019t need him.&#160; I commend Jeff for having the courage to agree that Republicans are intentionally sabotaging our economy now, hoping to use the bad economy to their advantage in November.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Rachel Maddow had an excellent piece on Republican economic policy, which she discussed with Oregon\u2019s Jeff Merkley. 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