GOP "Pottery Barn" Rule: “We break it, we blame you … and call you a Nazi.”

[kpete]

Socialism: A GOP Plan Signed by Obama
By Tina Dupuy


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Imagine if Obama signed the most recent Paul Ryan Budget plan – a blueprint to cut taxes further for the wealthy and further increase the debt by not taking in enough revenues. If Obama embraced it, Republicans would storm the Capitol calling it a tax hike and a Maoist plot with Wall Street. People in tri-corner hats with signs reading, “Don’t raise my taxes!” and “Stop government takeover of business!” would swarm The Mall. The erosion of Medicare would make Republicans faint on the House floor. “It’s a tenet of Marxism to kill grandma!” They’d gasp.

Just remember, when George W. Bush took office the budget was set to be balanced in a few short years. Social security was actually its namesake – secure. And then he went uber-GOP-with-a-mandate – didn’t pay for any of the wars he started – just showered seniors with unpaid-for Medicare Part D and sent everyone in the country a rebate check. And when this “free market capitalism” failed? He bailed out the banks and the auto industry with taxpayer money, famously saying he “abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.”

Now? Now the Republicans blame the deficit, the debt, the recession, the bailouts and (wait for it) the wars on the Democrat in the Oval Office.

It’s a take on the Pottery Barn rule, “You break it, you buy it.” The Republican version: “We break it, we blame you … and call you a Nazi.”

the rest:
http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/socialism-gop-plan-signed-obama

[freshwest]

1. The Van Jones piece posted here shows who broke the pottery! The rethugs are shameless.

[gratuitous]

3. Republicans might have some shame

But they're never tagged with their actions. Republicans, by and large, go on the teevee and cable shows, flat out lie, and it's an extremely rare instance when one of the talking chuckleheads says, "But sir, that's not true," and goes on to cite a pertinent fact or twelve. Why would someone be ashamed to get away with lying again and again? There's almost never a penalty.

[freshwest]

4. If they were half as religious as almost all of them claim to be, they'd be scared of hellfire.

[Angry Dragon]

2. republicans do not know how to govern

it is all about hate and fear to them

[freshwest]

7. It's not that, it's much more serious. Here's a LTE on 'conservatives':

'The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation.

Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.

Conservatives are not “thinkers”; they are rationalizers who give an intellectual gloss to their belief that an alliance of predatory businesspeople and religious extremists should rule the rest of us.

The wreckage caused by modern conservatism lies all around us, and speaks for itself: If conservatism isn't dead, it should be.'

- DANIEL ROSEN - Washington Post 10/9/2009

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-best-letter-to-the-editor-ever/question-883863/?page=2

They are fascists, enriching themselves and their friends while devouring the commons that allowed social mobility, then call the stolen wealth private property. It has always been thus, whether by the pen or the sword.

Here is a description by Thom Hartmann:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-15.htm

It was based on the much clearer original here:

http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/haw23.htm

I think anyone with even a modest level of reading comprehension knows that is exactly what is going on in this country. There was the business coup detailed in the Congressional Record, but not publicized at the time to prevent riots. Same faces, the Bush family, etc. Same business interests. Same political party, the GOP.

[kestrel91316]

5. Do those ijjits STILL think Nazis and Socialists are the same thing???

Oy. Teh stoopit.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Are you saying that "Impeachment (or any other true investigation) is off the table" was a mistake?

Gosh, and it seemed so sensible and adult.

[shcrane71]

8. No one on Newshour called the Cato Institute fellow out on his faulty logic last night.

Cato Institute guy:

Second, what Paul Ryan is proposing to do is bring the federal government, after 10 years, down to 20.25 percent of GDP, which is more than two percentage points of GDP bigger than when Bill Clinton left office. So, if Paul Ryan is a social Darwinist, what does that make Bill Clinton? Hannibal Lecter?

No one pointed out that Clinton didn't wage two unpaid-for wars during his administration. Why can't the other side (I really can't call it the Left) point out the obvious on these "news" programs. It's as if everyone gets together, decides what the right-wing talking points are, and "the other side" fails to point out the gaping flaws in the logic because they are complicit with the status quo.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june12/obama_04-03.html