{"id":7832,"date":"2012-05-21T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2012-05-21T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:57:42","slug":"projection-of-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/projection-of-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Projection of Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Wikipedia<\/a>, \u201cPsychological projection<\/b> or projection bias<\/b> is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people.\u201d  It is also a favorite tactic of the Republican Party.  An obvious example is the swift boating of John Kerry, in which the campaign of a Republican draft dodger impugned the courage of a decorated war hero.  Yesterday Paul Ryan (R-Fitzwalkerstan) accused Barack Obama of supporting austerity, while claiming that the Ryan Plan avoids austerity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"21Projection\"In the wake of its failure in Europe, Republicans must sense that being cheerleaders for austerity isn’t a big winner in America. So what does Paul Ryan (R-WI) do, since his budget slashes tax rates on the wealthy and services for working people? He just pretends it doesn’t\u2026<\/p>\n

…now President Obama wants austerity? Seriously? I thought he was the biggest taxer and spender EVAH?<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this makes any sense at all. Ryan’s budget cuts spending by $5.3T over the next 10 years, including basically ending Medicare — while giving huge tax cuts to rich people.<\/a> That’s the definition of austerity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and if Ryan’s so worried about "getting our borrowing under control" — why does his budget make the debt worse?<\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

By law, budgets must begin in the House. Durbin is almost as lame as Ryan, because he gives credence to supply-side. Supply-side economics may drive wealth for the 1%, but demand-side economics drives the economy and jobs.<\/font><\/p>\n

This has to be one of the Republicans deepest dives ever into the science of bullshitology.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Wikipedia, \u201cPsychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people.\u201d  It is also a favorite tactic of the Republican Party.  An obvious example is the swift boating […]<\/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-7832","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\/7832","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=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}