There are complete idiots, and then there's Marsha Blackburn.....

[marmar]

During the ongoing negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Republicans have stridently opposed any tax increases, with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) abandoning negotiations (much like House Majority Speaker Eric Cantor (R-VA) did before him) over taxes. Boehner has repeatedly decreed that any increase in revenues “can’t pass the House.”

Evidently the GOP believes that the public is with them on this issue, preferring the economic mess that would occur if the debt ceiling isn’t raised to any additional government revenue. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is so sure of this that she lectured President Obama today during an interview on Fox News, explaining that “the American people” absolutely do not want to see any taxes go up:

BLACKBURN: Mr. President, you have gotten on the last nerve of the American people and they don’t want a tax increase, and you just don’t seem to understand that. What they want to do is see the size, scope and cost of the federal government cut. They want the spending cut. They want some caps in place. They want a balanced budget amendment to come out of Washington and go to the states. And Mr. President it is time for you to give it up.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/11/265168/blackburn-revenue-polls/

Contrary to Blackburn’s pronouncement, the American people do favor increasing taxes to deal with the deficit. At Capital Gains and Games, Bruce Bartlett, a former economic adviser for both the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, found 19 different polls showing that the American public is okay with raising taxes to reduce the deficit, particularly when the alternative is slashing important programs like Medicare or Social Security. “Contrary to Republican dogma, polls show that the American people strongly support higher taxes to reduce the deficit and improve income inequality,” Bartlett wrote.

Back in March, a whopping 81 percent of people surveyed said that they favor a surtax on millionaires to reduce the deficit. However, the GOP has refused to even consider such a move.


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/11/265168/blackburn-revenue-polls/

[Scuba]

1. The Republican Party slammed the door on honesty the moment after....

...Ike uttered his "military industrial complex" speech.

[mysuzuki2]

2. Too bad we didn't have a balanced budget amendment

when Bush was in office.

[Blue_Tires]

5. What's funny is that it's the repubs themselves that killed the BBA

back in the 90s

[Urban Prairie]

3. When rightwinger Rethug whackjobs like Marsha Blackburn mention the word "Americans"

they are obviously NOT referring to, or including us so-called anti-American liberal socialists, as our viewpoints and opinions are absolutely meaningless to them.

Last nerve?

More like the last bit of gray matter left rattling around inside their otherwise empty skulls.

[Bandit]

4. Republicans do not know the difference between a tax and a subsidy.

Subsidies are money (tax payer money) that we give to large corporations like Exxon, and citi bank and, well the list is very long. Nowhere in the negotiations were tax increases involved. We just wanted to stop giving money to those corporations that already are making record profits

[nykym]

6. Dear Rep Blackburn

I would like to see the polls and proof for your ridiculous statement. Put up or shut up! or as Lawrence says you are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts!

[Lint Head]

7. Blackburn was the PR person at Green Hills Mall in Nashville TN that set up events

like fashion shows. My wife was in one. That is Blackburn's real talent. She should go back to doing mindless fashion shows.

[AmBlue]

8. Ahhh... another pretty loon.

She should probably run for President.

:sarcasm:

[lumpy]

9. Common sense has always told me that the bulk of Americans

certainly favor raising taxes on the filthy rich. It is the fair thing to do, especially considering the tax 'havens/loopholds' that only the wealthy can use. I have repeatedly heard this assinine claim that most Americans do not favor tax increases; another GREAT BIG GOP LIE.

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. "The American people want..." "The American people believe..."

More jerkwad RepubliPoints (TM) that just grate on me, like "the job creators.":mad:

[gratuitous]

14. It's invariably the prelude to a lie

Just like when someone says, "Now, I'm not racist, but . . ." You just know that something vile and racist is about to be said. When a Republican intones about the American people and their alleged beliefs or desires, you know for a fact that something vile and untrue is coming.

[LiberalAndProud]

11. It's starting to grate on my last nerve that they continually use that phrase.

"The American people want ... "

They have no clue what the American people want, nor do they care. If our views are in opposition to theirs, we are unAmerican. I am so tired of the spin, and so tired of having them put words in America's mouth. I wish they would just STFU.

But of course they won't.

[ljm2002]

12. So the question is...

...where are the politicians on OUR side who keep repeating "The American people want the rich to pay their fair share and they want us to preserve Social Security and Medicare, and we have numerous polls to show it."

I don't hear that argument being made, nor do I hear the so-called journalists questioning the Republicans when they say what the American people want. Any journalist worth his/her salt knows what the polls say. But they never, never, ever counter with the poll data. Regardless of that, our side needs to keep making the point. One thing GWB had right, sometimes you do have to catapult the propaganda, and that means repeating the same thing over, and over, and over again. The good part is that we have the truth on our side.

[spanone]

13. she was shit before palin & bachmann