talkingpointsmemo.com - 3/27/2009
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A sampling of the reaction to the House GOP's "there's nothing to see here" budget announcement:
dailykos.com - 3/28/2009
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dailykos.com —
Fresh from the GOP think tanks, we've got
even more details on the super-duper Republican budget plan...
. Heck, I just can't figure out how eight years of rule by these folks led to an economic disaster. I mean, this is good stuff, right?
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A Dead-End “Road to Recovery”
The Republic of T. —
... I won’t repeat what’s already been said, and said very well, about the utter lack of details, the compete absence of numbers (something even George W. Bush knew a budget is supposed have), or the omission of so much as a hint of how their plan would reduce the deficit, because … well … some conservatives have already done that for me.
Staffers assured me after yesterday’s press conference that alternative budgets are always presented this way — with details coming only at the last minute. But the ...
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