Republican tax cuts caused the recession and unemployment.

You see Kranky, if the Republicans had only stimulated spent another trillion dollars we didn’t have, like Obama is now, everything would be fine and we would be at full employment.

The economy’s problems of the last eight years was not aggravated by 9/11. Nor the fed pumping cheap money into a real estate asset bubble. Nor Barny Frank and Congress pushing Freddie and Fanny to increase loans to people to buy homes they cannot afford and to buy more of the securitized mortgages bundles of bad loans created by wall street. And it was not the unscrupulous lenders conning unsophisticated buyers with adjustable mortgage ripoffs to sell back to the market for the loans created by Freddy and Fanny. Not the brokerage and insurance companies like AIG perpetuating massive criminal insurance fraud by selling Credit Default Swaps to guarantee those securitized mortgages without the resources to pay off those guarantees. Not the SEC or the Federal Reserve or state Insurance regulatory agencies with responsibility for regulating these entities, asleep at the switch and failing to enforce existing regulations.

No, it was none of those things.

It was not even the massive bad deficit spending of the Republican Party.

It was, in fact, those Republican tax cuts that caused it all.

And it is all going to be fixed now, by the even more massive good deficit spending of the Democratic Party.

You see Kranky, it is easy to understand when it is explained so clearly.

But really? You think House Repubs actually have any ideas besides tax cuts? Because, like Jim, I consider that like doing close to nothing after that didn’t work the last 8 years. You can’t come to the table with the same proposals every single time and expect to be taken seriously. At least Senate Repubs actually talked about stimulus spending.

And let’s be honest, just cutting taxes again really counts as doing nothing.

ROTFLMAO. Don’t you mean “let’s be partisan?”

The bill that passes will include substantial expensive tax breaks. Many will simply be targeted to democratic priorities instead of recent GOP priorities: mortgage credits yes, cap gains cut no. All these count as “doing nothing” in your mind? What a small mind.

See, Congressional Republicans seem to think that nothing needs to be done and the whole thing can fix itself.

To my knowledge, this does not resemble the republican position. I have not heard a single GOP leader say anything like this. If you were an honest broker, you would admit this right now, and retract the claim.

What I have heard GOP leaders say is that they don’t think the approach of the current bill is the right one. If that’s what they believe, then opposition to this bill is not just sensible, its morally mandatory.

I have no quarrel with anyone who says that the GOP is in no position to dictate policy these days. I agree with that wholeheartedly. But that doesn’t mean that what they ought to do is be quiet and get steamrolled, or rubber stamp a bill they don’t think will help over the long term. I am NOT a republican. Ask anyone at Stubborn Facts. I am by default cast there as Barack Obama’s most reliable defender. But I know that GOP opposition to this bill is every bit as acceptable and indeed patriotic as opposition to the Iraq war was in 2003.