My favorite postings of the day

Glenn Marsh on Politico.com

Bachmann: The only GOP member that makes Palin look like a member of MENSA and a citizen of the "real" America. Logic and reality don't exist in Bachmann's private little patch-o-Crazysota.

Posted By: The Party that Ain't | March 25, 2009 at 06:42 PM

A GOP budget with no hard numbers

Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:43 PM by Mark Murrayhttp://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867398.aspx

And here is what the GOP "Budget Plan" meeting would look like:

Boehner: Come on guys, doesn't anyone have ANYTHING???

McConnell: Well I got out the old Bush budget and I think we should just go with it.

Boehner: Dammit Cantor turn that damned Brittany Spears crap off, we're trying to figure this out!

McCain: I say SPENDING FREEZE on everything but military spending.

Cantor: Who the hell invited McLame, I mean McCain?

Boehner: What do you think Mitch? Mitch??? Someone wake his ass up!

Cantor: How about we just attack like usual and have Michael Steele say some more dumb things and maybe they will all forget about our budget?

McConnell: Yeah distractions. I like it!

Boehner: Okay lets rap this up I got a tanning appointment in 20 minutes

posted by I luv Keith Olbermann (Sent Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:19 PM)

All these Repubs have done is work on their tans since November (I'm lookin' at you Boehner) ...give them some coloring books and a box of crayons because clearly since congress entered this session the GOP has been doing NOTHING.

Gordon Ramsey (Sent Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:50 PM)

Clearly, the GOP has no ready ideas. AFTER the President proposed his budget, AFTER the Republicans were accused for the umpteenth time of having no alternatives, they try to pick apart the budget and respond with the same old talking points (low taxes). What is infuriating is that NONE of them have the courage to say that the ideas of "trickle down" economics have failed, that lowering both taxes and the deficit at the same time cannot work. IF it is important to safeguard national security by continuing to fund two wars (and now the problem of the Mexican drug cartels), then we have to either spend (and borrow) or spend (and raise taxes). We are open to new ideas, sound ideas, ideas that have some track record. Cutting taxes in and of itself doesn't do any of those.

let it be (Sent Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:59 PM)

They definitely can't afford a grand old party on this budget!

By the time I was five I knew what a budget was. My mother would sit at the table with her forehead crinkling and write down a string of numbers that got smaller and smaller and usually ended with zero. I could re-create this table to figure out how much money I needed for candy at the last five and dime in town, chocolate milk at school, and toys from the vending machine, all before I was 10.

So how is it possible that the Republicans in 2009, who are much older than 10 are incapable of creating such a document? As DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan said today, "After 27 days, the best House Republicans could come up with is a 19-page pamphlet that does not include a single real budget proposal or estimate".

This is sad, very, very sad! And one more reason why the government needs to spend some more time and money on educating the citizens of this great country, especially those in the GOP.

Clic this link to read the GOP budget "pamphlet"