So, is this budget available on Twitter?

Those nutty republicans sure know how to pull an April Fool's Day prank.

Inane?

Not possible.

The Earth is only 6,000 years old... and flat!

Man did not evolve from monkeys.

Astrology trumps astronomy.

Go Repugnacans!

Actually, what's really frightening is that this "budget" "proposal" will be taken seriously by the mainstream media.

Actually, what's really frightening is that this "budget" "proposal" will be taken seriously by the mainstream media.
Posted by: Rob Mac on April 1, 2009 at 4:39 PM |
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Rob Mac: Thank goddess for Free Speech TV (Democracy NOW!, GRIT TV), Countdown, Rachel, and The Comedy Channel. The Repigs have virtually all the rest of MSM in their pants, while they scream 'Liberal MEDIA!!!" every time a story comes out that doesn't suit their purpose of the day.

Once again: the Republicans are not "insane", and Democrats and liberals do themselves no favors by imagining that the Republicans are "insane".

The Republicans are doing what the Republicans have done for generations: proposing policies that have proven highly effective at enriching and empowering a tiny, ultra-rich, increasingly hereditary minority at the expense of, and to the detriment of, the American people.

The Republicans are waging ruthless, relentless, rapacious class warfare on behalf of their ultra-rich, white-collar-crook mega-polluter war-profiteer corporate cronies and financial backers, against everyone else.

The Republicans are vicious, conscienceless liars -- as they have to be, since if they ran for office or attempted to govern on their actual agenda of enriching the ultra-rich and reducing everyone else to the status of impoverished, indentured, cheap-labor serfs, they would never, ever hold any public office.

Let's have some moral clarity here. The Republicans are not insane. They are evil.

Steve Benen quoted John Cole: "I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax."

The reality is more like this:

Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian, and she hits you over the head with a two-by-four and steals your wallet and your car and runs you over, leaving your broken body to bleed to death in the street.

"Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax."

I told John Cole then, and I repeat, the analogy fails. You are on a date! Of course you eat tire rims and anthrax.

And why will your comment box never remember my info, no matter how many times I tell it to do so?
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All of the above plus I guess it's worth noting the decade of the 1990's. Maybe they should have left that out. That can't even make an idiotic point without screwing it up.

I say take them at their word and demand the underlying data and assumptions to support that graph.

Sad to say... but a huge portion of the american electorate continues to gobble up this type of simplistic inane shit from the RepugThugs

of course the MSM will not require the underlying data - they will rush to show that striking graph on all of the news shows, without any independent analysis (i.e. what we used to call "journalism") - because that would be biased to actually question whether the chronically lying R's are telling the truth.

We're about to get hosed in the court of public opinion by a bunch of snake oil salespersons and their shills.

I would like to see the reasons for their 1% fluctuations 50 years from now. That's a detailed f'n 19 page budget!

This plot is of the "pants on fire" variety.

I see Rep. Ryan has retained the consulting firm of Underpants Gnomes LLC for the budget proposal. Last week's "budget" contained steps 1 and 2, and here he rolls out step 3: PROFIT!

"I'm not sure what's more frightening -- the painful inanity that passes for a Republican budget proposal or the fact that GOP leaders seem to have no idea just how painfully inane their proposal is."

Oh, I'm sure, Steve. That the Republican "leaders seem to have no idea how painfully inane their idea is" scares me plenty. These are the eejits we're all depending upon to help rescue our economy, address global warming (and perhaps save the entire friggin' planet!) and make the world a better place for our children.

It's enough to make a person despair, honestly.

They should show the line for the absolute size of the American gross domestic product (GDP) as well. The formula here is "Government spending as a percentage of GDP = $government spending/$GDP." Since we know that the economy will collapse as the predictable consequence of the insane Republican policies, the GDP, the denominator, will go to zero.

Thus, in the Republican la-la land of the future, maybe government spending will still be ~20%, but the USA, as a political and economic entity, will no longer exist. The projected ~20% of government spending as percentage of GDP represents--I don't know what--a tax levied on corporations for the US military to protect them from warlords and looters?

Your date isn't stating "her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax."

She's stating her preference for beating her head against the wall and screaming that Paul Newman did it to her.

a tax levied on corporations for the US military to protect them from warlords and looters?

A voluntary contribution, wholly tax-deductible, to keep defense contractors able to say they're doing something.

We should give them some credit for labeling the line "Democratic budgets" and not "Democrat Budgets." Small steps, people - small steps.

Two comments.

First, looking on the bright side, the Republican apparatchik's who created this slide actually labelled he blue line "Democratic Budgets" rather than "Democrat Budgets". So we're making progress: At least they actually call us by what we call ourselves.

Second, speaking of negotiations over dinner with someone who's a bit... intractible. Imagine you're trying to negotiate a divorce settlement over your house... and your ex-spouse starts shooting at you... so you take over the whole house to stop him from doing that, but, eventually, started negotiating to split the house into two apartments... but your ex-spouse has two lawyers, one of whom agrees to talk with you about splitting up the property, while the other, while agreeing to let the first lawyer do that, nevertheless refuses to agree that the property should be split up in the first place... he claims it all for his client... and anyway the first lawyer says you might be able to have half the house... but only if you let all his client's cousins move in with you and decide equally how the house should be run. And meanwhile you ex-spouse keeps shooting at you. Wouldn't that be fun?

once again: the republicans are not "insane",

papoon for president!

I'm not sure what's more frightening -- the painful inanity that passes for a Republican budget proposal or the fact that GOP leaders seem to have no idea just how painfully inane their proposal is.

What's most frightening is that the Villagers will continue to take the GOP completely seriously when they're not being total crazies and buffoons, and will politely ignore stuff like this 'budget' that's just plain crazy and which would undermine any argument for taking the GOP seriously.