Wounded Elephant Screechings

[kpete]

Wounded Elephant Screechings
Posted by JOE KLEIN

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And so it's painful when reality intrudes. Here is the reality: the Republicans have spent the past 30 years creating deficits and the Democrats have spent the past 30 years closing them. The unimportance of deficits became an article of faith during the second Bush Administration: "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter," Dick Cheney famously said. It has been rather hilarious for those of us with even a minimal grasp of recent history to watch these folks pull fierce 180-degree turns on the issue--and it is even more hilarious to watch them accuse Obama of hyper-partisanship after the dump-truck full of garbage they visited upon his head these past few years.

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Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/14/wounded-elephant-screechings/#ixzz1JbL16PZR

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Whine...screeeeech....whine." - Republicon Hypocrites (R)

[av8rdave]

Somebody needs to recycle Darth Cheney's quote loudly and repeatedly

[Greybnk48]

2. He took them out at the knees on wednesday

and it was a real joy to watch!! Pres. Obama was almost as good as Colbert at the press corps. dinner several years back, only more subtle. And bravo to you and your for picking a University venue. This allowed you to open with a thorough and clear lecture on the history of Repug fuckuppery that got us in the fix we're in now!!

[ewagner]

3. I thoroughly enjoyed

watching the full-flight-panic of the Republican leadership's press conference immediately after Obama spoke.

They were in a state of shock...trying to marginalize Obama's speech while running head-long away from Ryan's proposal..desperately renaming/rebranding/equivocating everything in his STUPID plan....

It was fun to watch those a-holes on the defensive for once...

[joeybee12]

4. Your title concerned me, I thought "real" elephants were in pain...

not bloated, racist asshole elephants.

[kpete]

5. sorry

for scaring you and REAL elephants

peace, kpete

[joeybee12]

6. An elephant in pain is really an awful sound...

no problem...you posted the titel as is, and no elephants were harmed.