tax cuts and smaller government will fix things, so it must be true. Mine is that his sounds exactly like the republican program of the last few decades. And it's a falsehood. What they have always meant is lower taxes on the rich and a governmet too weak to control the corporations.

He probably still believes in the free market fantasy. And who has time to explain the mixed economy.

But if we're looking at history, what about the republican's record of fiscal conservatism? From Reagan onward, they have deregulated and dumped cash on their friends while running the government into bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the Clintons used the levers of the mixed economy to reverse the deficit, pay down the debt, run the economy at full tilt, and basically improve every stat in the book. In fact, democrats have the better record of economic management going back decades.

But everything that educated people know about the real economy may not help us this time. Bush's freinds in the private sector have stolen too many billions of public dollars, from the war and oil indistries to the financial sector. They're acting more savagely than anything we've seen. And it may take serious involvenemnt from the public to force them to behave.

Ok. Reality time is over. Brucie can go back to making dingbat predictions, massaging the record, and ignoring mountains of overwhelming evidence.

and run on, contradictory sentences, you can't tell what he's talking about. It's pathetic.

There's a ton of pork and even more tax cuts, neither of which will help us in this environment. The bills needs to give congress the power to rewrite the mortages at favorable rates for the borower, and with a modest profit for the government. It needs to spend a ton on creating jobs serving the disadvantaged, and in carefully chosen infrastructure and industrial modernization. We get a double bang for the buck. The workers spend their pay checks, and their work creates a more efficient environment.

But the democrats learned nothing from the Clintons' and don't know jack about strategic investment. They're back to their old tricks. Just throw money everywhere and maybe some will stick. The republicans, meanwhile, are playing scorched earth politics and are the dumbest set of rubes this side of Altoona.

Lord we need Bill Clinton back. It's time. If no one else will say it, I will. Return to us. Please, O Mighty One. I beg of ye. There's a bin full of Big Macs. We'll rope Kenney Chesney into a free concert for your ten favorite charities. And Rush Limbaugh is set to wrastle Camille Paglia in a ball gag so she can't bloviate on his performance. All this and more shall cetainly be yours if you'll only spend a few weeks in DC.

It was a mistake to give them tax cuts, as it was to put in all the pork. Both need to be removed and switched to more strategic spending. The bill should also be more fiscally responsible. That means raising taxes slightly on the very rich. The debt must go. Republicans always run the government deep in the red so they can cripple the government while collecting interest payments from tax payers.

Having watched Obama swipe the Clinton agenda from day one, I thought he and the leadership finally understand the most successful policy set of our time. I assumed they would use it to govern in the forseeable future. This bill shows that they don't and won't. They haven't learned jack from the Clintons' policy agenda and vast successes. Both parties are in a time warp back to the disasters of the 1970s. It just makes me sad.

Fixing the bill will be difficult while republicans control the media. Obama needs to launch a massive pr offensive. And he'll need help from our finacial giants. If they don't pony up now, we're in real trouble.

What we really need, though, is Bill Clinton in an advisory position. But that's not going to happen. Americans despise their brainiacs, and probably feel inferior. They treated the most knowledgeable leaders of our time shamefully. So now we're stuck with the worst policies of the 70s and 80s. Just what we need on the brink of a depression.

piece was totally weak. It said no word about the many catastrophies they republicans created. In fact, it made them seem lovable victims of innocent errors. It's commercial media, people. It's owned by Republicans and is doing damage control as fast as it can.

to trash our most knowledgeable leaders. They did it to the Clintons. Now it's Obama's turn. They don't understand that American politics is a game of compromise and negotiation.

The left are total dingbats. They voted for Nader, put Bush in office, and never apologized. The took Obama for a far left messiah based on his slogans: Change and Yes We Can. Please. If he were any more vague, he'd be invisible. Now they're crying that he's not Robespierre.

Guess what. The Clintons played the game and got a ton accomplished. Hopefully Obama will too, although the stimulous package shows he doesn't understand the mixed economy as well as Bill did. Maybe he'll hire the big dog in an advisory position. The left could ignore the rising stats as easily as they did in the 90s. And what fun it would be having Clinton to smear again.

What could be worse than Fox News? Just think of the educational level of their audience. It's frightening.

My boss is one of them. His latest kick is claiming the democrats have been in control for two years. I try explaining the veto, the filibuster, and traditional values like integrity, repentence, and personal responsibility. But it's like talking to a really stupid brick wall.