James Carville rips Santelli, Jindal in latest article.

[TeamJordan23]

So my home state governor, creationism-toting Bobby Jindal, the newly-tapped spokesperson of the Rush Limbaugh-led Republican Party, and a handful of Southern governors, took their stand on expanded unemployment benefits which make up about 2 percent of the economic recovery package.

This, despite the fact that economists from all political ideologies concluded that extending the length of time that workers can collect unemployment insurance benefits would be one of the most effective stimulus measures.

A 2008 Congressional Budget Office memo stated that it would be an effective measure for Congress to pass because "it seems likely that recipients would spend most of those benefits."

Mark Zandi, former economic adviser to Sen. John McCain's campaign, estimates that for every $1 invested in unemployment benefits assistance, $1.64 in economic activity is generated.

Worse, the right's new hero is CNBC's Rick Santelli, a man who on September 2, 2008, said the economy was healthy and blamed the business media for the financial crisis.

He has taken a similarly small, eroding patch of ground to mount a charge against the government's recovery package by suggesting that the government should let more homes needlessly fall into foreclosure.

In his latest tirade, Santelli comments the government is "promoting bad behavior" and that it's going to "subsidize the losers' mortgages." Well Mr. Santelli, President Obama's home affordability plan will help stave off even more foreclosures and allow those who are barely staying afloat to refinance their mortgages, both of which are in the best interest of the American economy as each foreclosed home reduces nearby property values by as much as 9 percent.

This is the same guy who recently said that the all-white, all-male stock traders next to him represented "a pretty good statistical cross-section of America. The silent majority." This from a former derivatives trader -- a patriotic profession up there with the likes of soldiers, teachers and farmers. Like what America needs now is advice from a derivatives trader.

Today's Republican Party, the lowest-held political party in the history of modern polling, should be in agony. They have just committed a serious blunder, a folly have you.

Full Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/carville.republicans/index.html

[wndycty]

1. Ouch!

:kick:

[Larkspur]

2. Carville always excelled at carving up the Republicans

and they toadies, like Santelli.

[rvablue]

3. Kick! n/t

[brianna69]

4. Perfectly stated

[Cha]

5. And, the stupid just keeps pouring out

of the repuke stars..like Krugman was quoted the other day..

"The intellectual incoherence is stunning. Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead."

[genna]

6. My god, the dead has arisen.

Carville can do more than piss all over me with his comments about what Obama can and can not do?

I understand he was loyal and stickin', but did that mean reality was any less real?

I knew a Republican in 2007 who absolutely LOATHED Carville. His attacks on Carville were personal, hateful, and just wrong. I laughed it off at the time because I thought Carville had his head on straight.

I understand political strategists have jobs to do, but when he took after Obama in 2008 he set my teeth on edge. I don't hate him like that Republican from 2007 or make a caricature of him. I have the sin of unforgiveness blocking me from embracing him even though he is telling the truth about Jindal here.