Forgive me for making this rather shallow point, but every time Roy Blunt appears on a TV screen I can't help but be reminded how many republicans are as unattractive as they are greedy.

Pro-growth in anything measured in US dollars (ready for $5 gallon gas?), as the Republicans cut taxes on the rich, rob the Treasury, and give IOU's to any suckers dumb enough to hold US currency.

Roy "It's a good thing" Blunt is channeling Martha Stewart now?

I believe I've seen Rep. Blunt's name in some police reports, following the murder of some individual, due to "blunt"-force trauma caused by a "blunt" instrument used to beat in the skull of some murder victim...which, although not as severe, is the way one feels after watching Rep. Blunt talk, as if one has been hid over the head repeatedly by some sociopathic psychopathic Republican...who's advocating more of the same sociopathic psychopathic policies of the corrupt, un-American and outright evil Bush administration.

Blunt:

In fact, I think one of the reasons that the economy has slowed down the way it has is the fact that there’s great uncertainty about how those tax policies move forward.

Where do the Repubs find these ass-hats?

I really don't think most Americans who are battling high costs of gas, food, college, health care, etc, ever give a second thought to the problem of doubling the capital gains tax. Once again, GOP = Out of Touch.

If you think that's bad, we here in the Show-Me State have had to live with this jerk's son as our Governor for the past 4 years.

Our henpecked Boy Wonder Governor decided that he would bow out after one term when the First Lady decided that she did not like the Governor's Mansion in the State Capitol.

Toes @ 14:

If you think that's bad, we here in the Show-Me State have had to live with this jerk's son as our Governor for the past 4 years.

Our henpecked Boy Wonder Governor decided that he would bow out after one term when the First Lady decided that she did not like the Governor's Mansion in the State Capitol.

Yet more nepotism. Is the GOP now the party of the aristocratically entitled elite, by birthright?

BLITZER: Do you want to respond to that?

VAN HOLLEN: Sure. Look, I mean, the Bush economic policies have helped drive this economy into a ditch. The economy has lost $260,000 in the first four months of this year. And John McCain…

BLITZER: 260,000 jobs.

VAN HOLLEN: Jobs in the first four months. And John McCain does represent a continuation of the Bush economic policy, as Roy just acknowledged. And the fact of the matter is, people are hurting. The one thing this president doesn’t understand and John McCain doesn’t understand is the economic squeeze the families around the country are feeling.

And when it comes to Iraq, again, this is a continuation of the Bush policy.

So on the two biggest issues on the agenda today, the war in Iraq and the economy, he represents a continuation of George Bush.

captures the situation perfectly.
thanks for playing.

Just the way I like it!

sherifffruitfly @ 7:

Hey C&L,

Check out this video on Clinton's site - it has a "newspaper headline" about Obama being against the gas tax holiday, but the article is actually aboout Troopergate!!

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/182.aspx

Here's where I heard about it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&fo...

I downloaded the QT of it if you need it. Better hurry - they're sure to take it down soon - once they realize!

OMFG so funny, that is definitely an "oops pardon me while I put on my coat and leave" moment for a staffer.

BLUNT: It would be. I think it would be. And I think that’s a good thing. You can’t go out in the country anywhere and find people who believe that doubling the capital gains rate is a good thing, that raising the highest rate on every small business in America is a good thing, that eliminating those bottom brackets, that mean that people at the lower levels of tax pay less taxes than they would otherwise. In fact, I think one of the reasons that the economy has slowed down the way it has is the fact that there’s great uncertainty about how those tax policies move forward.

Did he really just say what I think he said?

Unfortunately because Bush has driven us into the fiscal ditch, Blunt may have something of a point. The economic situation is highly volatile now, one wrong turn against the little guy or the big corporation can spell a downturn no one wants to see.

Investor’s eyes are wide open to international markets and will turn their wealth towards wherever those opportunities are; in fact they are welcoming a downturn because they can acquire assets at a bargain. It’s no longer a simple matter of raising or lowering taxes at a particular class of people, the rich are going to find the tax advantages regardless because they move the economy, neither side have helped employee’s or small business over the years.

Both sides are full of crap

sherifffruitfly @ 7:

Hey C&L,

Check out this video on Clinton's site - it has a "newspaper headline" about Obama being against the gas tax holiday, but the article is actually aboout Troopergate!!

I downloaded the QT of it if you need it. Better hurry - they're sure to take it down soon - once they realize!

managed to watch half on Hillarys site, coundnt download it at all, stopped half way through playing.

but Youtube still works.

but the Youtube embedded video on hillaryclinton.com is buffering buffering and not playing, somebody is panicking there and pushing random buttons to make it go away.
Sunday evenings a wonderful time to have a panic, all the grownup web staff are away only the kids remain.

If there is a perfect example of the throw-back, beatle-browed troglodyte, Blunt is it. A Neanderthal if ever there was one. With a pea-brain to match. I'm always amazed he knows how to speak and I'm sure if he just grunted and scratched his arse he would be more true to form.
Come to think of it, that pretty much sizes up the whole damned bunch of Republicans.

The Jon Stewart, Olbermann, Colbert might appreciate a copy.
Its rather funny in a OMFG way, somebody better keep a 'S' watch on her staffers or video guy.

it still works, go download it PDQ.

"Pro-growth tax policies"?

Jesus, these idiots in the media really are just mindless parrots.

"It's the pro-growth tax policy, stupid!"

BLUNT: It would be. I think it would be. And I think that’s a good thing. You can’t go out in the country anywhere and find people who believe that doubling the capital gains rate is a good thing, that raising the highest rate on every small business in America is a good thing, that eliminating those bottom brackets, that mean that people at the lower levels of tax pay less taxes than they would otherwise. In fact, I think one of the reasons that the economy has slowed down the way it has is the fact that there’s great uncertainty about how those tax policies move forward.

Blunt said he believes in taxing the poor!!!

Referring to Bush 's tax policies Blunt says that one of the reasons our economy is bad "is the fact that there’s great uncertainty about how those tax policies move forward". This man is delusional.

It is like on 30 Rock if anyone watched last Thur. A Bush lackey is talking about a ceiling that is clearly leaking and he says no it's not we did a study and it is not leaking. Hilarious!!

www.invadeburma.com

is Roy Blunts hair plugged on or is that a toupee?

At the risk of sounding repetitive... what a douche bag.

You people are missing the point.

Now that you've done everything in your power to hand them Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee instead of Hillary Clinton, they feel they can say ANYTHING they want and it won't hurt their chances of winning the general election in a landslide.

Yes, now they think they can literally say they're running George W. McCain as their nominee and it won't take away a victory in November.

Unfortunately, they're probably right.

All of these fascist thugs with (R) after their names are batsh!t crazy. There is no other explanation.

What stood out to me in that clip was not Blunt but Blitzer. "It would be in effect a third Bush term when it came to pro-growth tax policies?" he parrots right after Blunt says it. What if he were objective & said instead "when it came to what you term to be a pro-growth tax policy".
That's one of my favorite euphemisms "pro-growth".

It's Me @ 50:

You people are missing the point.

Now that you've done everything in your power to hand them Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee instead of Hillary Clinton, they feel they can say ANYTHING they want and it won't hurt their chances of winning the general election in a landslide.

Yes, now they think they can literally say they're running George W. McCain as their nominee and it won't take away a victory in November.

Unfortunately, they're probably right.

yep. The GOP vs "the American Idol" candidate. It's in the bag for McCain now.

redsaunas @ 36:

"Pro-growth tax policies"?

Jesus, these idiots in the media really are just mindless parrots.

They are NOT mindless nor parroting they know exactly what they are saying and THEY MEAN IT!

What tax bracket do you think a person who has their own news show is in?

gwen @ 51:

we're headed for economic crisis and his solution is full-steam-ahead?

When the ship starts taking on water, the repukes will lock all of us down in cargo, while they escape in the lifeboats,cracking jokes and laughing the whole time.

I wonder how many years it's been since one of these repuke bastards did something, ANYTHING, for anyone other than themselves. Pro-growth tax policies? Yeah right. We are growing the massive fortunes of the top richest 5% at an exponential rate, while everybody else is going down.

No one ever accused Blunt of a wealth of intelligence. Hell, after the House GOP caucus gets another shellacking in November, he'll probably be tossed out of his leadership post.

I guess someone needed to speak for the silent but deadly 20% who are clueless.

I hope someone on Obama's campaign staff saves the video and puts it in a commercial this fall.

"Pro-growth tax policies" should always be in quotes. What is so described is simply unsustainable deficit spending, and while it can be sensible (as short-term stimulus) to spend more than is being pulled in in revenue, it doesn't work long-term. It is a mystery of successful propagandizing that the policies causing crushing debt and recession can be called "pro-growth" without inducing howls of laughter.

We've had as close as we're going to get for a direct comparison of ideologies. Under Clinton, the US managed to hit a surplus, all the while experiencing a boom. Lenders to the US were given confidence that the spending/revenue ratio was being managed.

Under Bush, the US has spent several TRILLION of borrowed funds, while incurring some 3 trillion more in longterm costs through the occupation of Iraq, all while Soc Sec generated surpluses.

We were heading for a recession anyway due to the boomers retiring, but Bush has ensured we are getting a running start at it, due to the utter failure of conservative ideology.

Funny how you never hear this from the politicians.

tubino @ 68:

"Pro-growth tax policies" should always be in quotes. What is so described is simply unsustainable deficit spending, and while it can be sensible (as short-term stimulus) to spend more than is being pulled in in revenue, it doesn't work long-term. It is a mystery of successful propagandizing that the policies causing crushing debt and recession can be called "pro-growth" without inducing howls of laughter.

We've had as close as we're going to get for a direct comparison of ideologies. Under Clinton, the US managed to hit a surplus, all the while experiencing a boom. Lenders to the US were given confidence that the spending/revenue ratio was being managed.

Under Bush, the US has spent several TRILLION of borrowed funds, while incurring some 3 trillion more in longterm costs through the occupation of Iraq, all while Soc Sec generated surpluses.

We were heading for a recession anyway due to the boomers retiring, but Bush has ensured we are getting a running start at it, due to the utter failure of conservative ideology.

Funny how you never hear this from the politicians.

I agree but would also ask what Bill Clinton ever did to create jobs or plan for the jobs of the future?

Nothing... thats what.

The economy was good during his adminastration ONLY because of the comming turn of the century in which all computers needed to be updated before we were all y2ked.Once all computers were updated the jobs he supposedly created dissapeared along with the year 1999, nothing more nothing less.

Unless Bill was personally responsible for bringing about the turn of the century, he had NOTHING to do with the "boom" of the '90s except to take credit for it and then sit back, get impeached and watch as jobs and surplus evaporated!

Even Fred "working class=lower class" Barnes can smell the coffee.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/096pst...

Notice they cite the exit polls indicating that many Clinton voters would vote for McNasty if she didn't get the nom. Don't they listen to Lush?

cheezebox @ 47:

I want lower taxes, with DECREASED government spending and a real effort to pay down the national debt and fund social security. I think we have enough history to show that government is horrible at spending your money.

Sorry you can either have lower taxes OR a real effort to pay down the national debt.

Libertarians always wanting their cake and eat it too... LOL.

The only thing growing is the debt. Shitheads.

miss skeptic @ 12:

I really don't think most Americans who are battling high costs of gas, food, college, health care, etc, ever give a second thought to the problem of doubling the capital gains tax. Once again, GOP = Out of Touch.

I would not say the GOP is "out of touch" with respect to capital gains. Rather, the Repubs know what they are doing, and it is lying to the American public. Most Americans don't have enough investments to worry about capital gains tax. It is the rich who reap the benefit from this tax cut. And the Republicans continually sing the same talking points and claim lowering the capital gains tax is good for the economy. No it is good for the wealthy ! Is there a Republican that can speak honestly to the American people?

Pay close attention to "I think one of the reasons that the economy has slowed down the way it has is the fact that there’s great uncertainty about how those tax policies move forward."

That's right folks; he's attempting to blame the market downturn not upon the /current/ president's actual policies but upon the publics concern for what a democratic president's prospective policies might be. The fact that you didn't highlight this passage just shows you've gotten so used to this nonsense you filter it out now. This man is either chronically stupid or a barefaced liar (and I think I know to which I subscribe) and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the political arena.

"You can’t go out in the country anywhere and find people who believe that doubling the capital gains rate is a good thing" - Well maybe not, but you can find plenty who believe that we should introduce universal healthcare coverage, that we should invest more in public education and that we need to do something about the national debt. So you can't find people that believing in raising taxes as an end in itself? What a surprise! But the majority of the country want things to happen which require tax raises and so.... The only reason a large number of them would want these things but not support tax raises is they've been brainwashed by repeated chants of 'trust me, I'm an economist' from supply-side bozos who believe the economic vitality caused by lowering the tax rate will actually increase tax revenue; something proven to be false time and time and time and time and time again but still clung to zealously by the crooks and liars who run the republican party and the country.