Rachel Maddow show - (R) blames obama

[Furiousliberal]

Run time: 13:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6AkaC-KG4   Posted on YouTube: August 31, 2010 By YouTube Member: DistressedLiberal Views on YouTube: 4   Posted on DU: August 31, 2010 By DU Member: Furiousliberal Views on DU: 1435

 
Republicans old blame obama for everything tactic has been taken to a new level of crazyness.
Category:
News & Politics

[hourglass1]

1. just lie

rinse and repeat ... if symptoms persist, tell a bigger lie in a bigger voice, rinse and repeat ...

the infamy of american lying is getting out of hand ... when i introduce myself at seminars overseas they inspect my business card with suspicion ...

[mwb970]

4. Is it your "long form" business card? /nt

:)

[lillypaddle]

2. Let's expose them one by one

for the liars and hypocrites they are, and take them DOWN. K&R.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[mwb970]

3. "Rising star"? Christie is a typical conservative asshole.

And, he looks like a criminal. This is Becks's choice for president then?

:crazy:

[abrysta1]

5. What the right is saying is that Obama is a success

Yes a success or they wouldn't be fighting with everything that they have.

[ejpoeta]

6. that's what i like about rachel maddow. she dissects what was said

and exposes the lie. THEN she shows proof of the lie. too bad republicans won't bother looking past this guys explanation.

[bherrera]

7. There is something wrong with the US system

if indeed the application for funding was 700 pages long, then the system is too bureaucratic. This means the department in charge of the system should have many bureaucrats dismissed. I also question the logic of a system which allocates funds to the top 10 states, and leaves others with nothing. This is a really inefficient system. I say the USA has a very complex, outdated, and poorly management government system, bureaucratic in a fashion which requires serious revision if not outright elimination. And I am surprised to see this Rachel so gibbly dismiss the most important story in this tale, which is that government bureaucracy is indeed crazy if this is the way funds are given for education.

[GreenTea]

8. Right! - Corporatism & imperialism - The rich & their corporations creating policy

laws and agenda for the few through the slimy republicans, for all of us to obey like robots, they care NOTHING for the workers, the middle class or "pesky" small business - they only want OUR tax dollars.

[ljm2002]

9. It is a special program...

...not the whole of education funding. It's "Race To The Top" funds. And I agree, I don't like the states competing for funding either.

As to the length of the application, though: this was an application worth $400 million to the recipient. In that light, 700 pages, most of it appendixes (i.e. attachments referenced in the preceding text), does not seem out of line. Any organization that is disbursing that kind of money had better be dotting the i's and crossing the t's and collecting documentation for every relevant claim made in the application.

Those sight gags where they drag up a big heavy pile of paper is very effective, because people tend to look at it and think OMG! I couldn't even think about handling that! But it is not that unreasonable when you consider that this is an institutional exchange of information and several people will work on it methodically for a period of time to put it together. The largest part of that pile of paper is copies of documents that back up answers to the questionnaire.

Would you be okay with a 10-page application for $400 million? Do you even think it is possible to do that and meet any sensible requirements you might have for recipients?