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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/8/2009

Senator Ensign Thinks States Can Cut Back Without Cutting Anything Back

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The single most perverse thing about the Senate version of the stimulus package is that it made big reductions in federal aid to the states. In economic terms, this was just about the least-controversial idea you could put in a stimulus package. On the federal level, a recession leads to a ...

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thinkprogress.org - 2/8/2009

Sen. Ensign: It’s ‘Fearmongering’ To Suggest That Any Teachers Would Lose Their Jobs

— thinkprogress.org — On Meet the Press this morning, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) slammed proposed cuts in aid to the... states in the stimulus bill, explaining that states are slashing their funding for vital public needs. “That’s the wasteful spending that my ... (more) Sen. Ensign: It’s ‘Fearmongering’ To Suggest That Any ...

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washingtonmonthly.com - 2/9/2009

It ain't fearmongering if it's true

— washingtonmonthly.com — IT AIN'T FEARMONGERING IF IT'S TRUE.... Just today, the LA Times has a good report on the... unprecedented pressure on state budgets right now -- pressure that will not be alleviated by the federal recovery plan because Sens. Collins &... (more) It ain't fearmongering if it's true

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It ain't fearmongering if it's true
Political Animal — ... by the fact that state budgets, including his own, would have to be slashed, calling the budgets "bloated." He said, "What we should be doing is cutting back." Got that? As the recession worsens, the government spending is needed to prevent more Americans from losing their jobs, a leading Republican senator whose own state is about to get pummeled, believes it's a good idea to "cut back." I can think of a variety of ways to respond to this nonsense, but I think Matt Yglesias summed things up nicely: The idea that it would be good for states to cut back in the midst of the ...

John Cornyn Invents The Wheel-- A Square One Made Of Stone
DownWithTyranny! — ... Bob Menendez, the new head of the DSCC must be pinching to make sure his good fortune isn't a dream. The Republican Party has apparently decided to up the ante in the stoopid department when it comes to finding someone to run their NRSC even more out of touch with reality than Liddy Dole or John Ensign, the two losers from the last couple cycles. The new kid on the block in one of the stupidest all around members of the Senate and certainly the one least based in reality, John Cornyn (R-TX). When he isn't busy being one of the conspirators behind the Obstructionist Caucus that ...

We’ll File This Under “Culture of Life”
Balloon Juice — Yesterday, big Media Matt highlighted Senator Ensign of Nevada telling us that the states just needed to cut back their “bloated” budgets: Ensign (R-NV) — who began the show by saying that doing nothing would be better than passing this stimulus plan — insisted that states’ budgets are “bloated” and derided Frank’s concerns as “fearmongering,” denying that any teachers, cops, or firefighters would lose their jobs: To get back to what Congressman Frank said, is that ...

2/9: Nice Job, Centrists!
Blogometer — ... of the economic stimulus bill, which was reached in an agreement between Dems and three moderate GOPers. Lefty bloggers think the list of cuts proposed by the centrist senators makes little sense; Josh Marshall complains that the cuts "build up the least effective parts of the package at the expense of the most." The netroots are particularly incensed by the proposal to cut $40B from proposed aid to states, which they're describing as "crazy" and "perverse" . Liberal bloggers believe that giving money to state governments is necessary to ...