{"id":2486,"date":"2010-08-07T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2010-08-07T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T09:18:09","slug":"a-case-for-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/a-case-for-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

You must think I\u2019ve been guzzling the Republicans\u2019 Kool-Aid, but before you dismiss me as absolutely crazy, consider this:<\/font><\/p>\n

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During a lengthy speech on the Senate floor yesterday about his opposition to the confirmation of Elana Kagan to the Supreme Court, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) went on a tangent, claiming the ongoing economic downturn \u201cwas not Bush\u2019s recession\u201d but was a \u201cresult of Democrat economic polices\u201d:<\/p>\n

DEMINT: The decision that have been made about our economy over the last couple of years have brought our economy to its knees. This is no longer something we can blame on President Bush.<\/span> In fact, the Democrats have been in control of policy making, economic policy spending, for four years now. This is not Bush\u2019s recession.<\/span> This is the result of Democrat economic polices. This nomination will continue our move in the wrong direction. <\/p>\n

Watch it:<\/p>\n

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Even the staunchly conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board understood it was Bush\u2019s recession, writing in early 2009 that Bush\u2019s comment that \u201cWall Street got drunk and we got a hangover,\u201d \u201creveals how little the President comprehends<\/a> about the source of his Administration\u2019s economic undoing. To extend his metaphor, Who does Mr. Bush think was serving the liquor?\u201d Even if one ignores everything after 2006, Bush still had the worst record of job creation<\/a> in 40 years. <\/p>\n

Moreover, the economy only began to recover after President Obama and the Democratic Congress passed the stimulus package in early 2009. Since then, the GDP has grown<\/a>, the financial sector has recovered<\/a>, and \u2014 while the overall employment situation is still bleak \u2014 private sector job growth has rebounded<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a recent report, two leading economists \u201cempirically proved\u201d that the Obama\u2019s stimulus package and other interventionist measures \u201chelped avert<\/a> a second Depression.\u201d Without the stimulus package, GDP would have been 2 percent lower and an additional 2.7 million jobs<\/a> would have been lost, they found. Meanwhile, \u201cOn every major measurement\u201d of economic growth, \u201cthe country lost ground<\/a> during Bush\u2019s two terms,\u201d the National Journal\u2019s Ron Brownstein observed, citing Census data\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Do I think Greene is qualified to be a US Senator?  Certainly not.  Am I endorsing him?  Only indirectly.  Why?  We could not do worse than Jim DeMint.  If I were faced with a choice between DeMint and a retarded chimp with mange, body odor, and halitosis, who throws feces at anyone within range, and who masturbates in public, I\u2019d vote for that monkey in a hot minute.  Greene is a far better choice than the chimp, so he must be better that DeMint too.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You must think I\u2019ve been guzzling the Republicans\u2019 Kool-Aid, but before you dismiss me as absolutely crazy, consider this: During a lengthy speech on the Senate floor yesterday about his opposition to the confirmation of Elana Kagan to the Supreme Court, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) went on a tangent, claiming the ongoing economic downturn \u201cwas […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}