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The Republican "Budget"
Obsidian Wings —
... Luckily, Nate Silver has the answer: Via John Cole, a Fark thread has some interesting suggestions: There are lots more where that came from. Enjoy!
Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... GOP releases hilarious joke "budget."
Cue the wingnut fight.
Cue the analysis.
Getting bad in North Dakota.
Plus, a levee failure.
Funny, they don't like being called godless heathens.
Real plumbers vs. "Joe."
Tough love for progressives.
Stay classy, Glenn.
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Fun With Maddeningly Vague GOP Charts!
Politics Daily —
... See how easy that was? Presto-chango, economic problems solved! Well, Nate Silver couldn't resist having a little graphic fun, and has added his own visual representation of GOP brainstorming. Enjoy: ...
The Detailed, Very Serious Republican Budget Revealed
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
With more graphs! This "alternative budget" manages what I wouldn't have thought possible; turn the Republican policy into even more of a farce. And, yet, one has to agree that the complete lack of a budget as part of the alternative budget makes sense: "The alterna-budge is a bag of magic Reagan beans. No one on God's green earth believes in them or wants them. Adding numbers to it would be like assigning a horsepower rating to Hot Wheels." ...
The Road to Republican Recovery
If I Ran the Zoo —
Not everyone is laughing at the Republican not-really-a-budget (which might as well have been written by not-really-Joe the not-really-a-plumber). Jennifer Rubin, for example, thinks it's just swell: While they have yet to spell out exact figures or provide the comprehensive budget itself, the “Republican Road to Recovery” does preview their plan and goes some distance toward shooting down the Democrats’ spin that Republicans have “no ideas.”Ideas? How about this one: "Limits the Federal Budget from Growing Faster than Family Budgets"--a ...
The GOP's Road To Recovery
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Pwned and pwned again.
Come Saturday Morning: The GOP’s Underpants Gnome Budget
Firedoglake —
... of patients, doctors, and the American people."
Um, except that they don't have any numbers to back it up. Really and truly. Their budget proposal does not mention how much money they would raise or spend. In fact, it barely mentions money at all -- and when it does, it butchers the figures involved. Compare that to the Obama budget outline, which even as an outline comes to 142 pages of hard details, facts and figures. No wonder this thing is being openly and relentlessly mocked all over ...
Read These Now as I Hum to the Birds and Worry about the Goats
Shakesville —
After a harrowing week of scraping, scrubbing, and avoiding suffocation, I am on the road to recovery. Wait, that sounds familiar. O' yeah, that GOP alternative du jour worked well. The only guidance I can offer is that ...
