tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post1840936179304307158..comments2024-02-13T05:40:02.459-06:00Comments on Alternative Tulsa: Sen. Scott Brown Flunks the Truth Test on Stimulus Job ClaimUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-66965591031386018862010-02-25T16:33:25.375-06:002010-02-25T16:33:25.375-06:00MotW, I've seen you employ this particular def...MotW, I've seen you employ this particular defense mechanism repeatedly. It involves errors of scale.<br /><br />Example: Tom DeLay implemented a vast, overt system of corruption for the GOP, the "K Street Project." But Democrat Jefferson from Louisiana squirreled away some cold bribe cash in his fridge. Thus, according to your reckoning, the two parties are equivalent in their levels of corruption. Q.E.D.<br /><br />I've seen you do this over and over on this blog, and will supply more examples on request.<br /><br />Not saying that either party has a corner on the corruption market. But unquestionably, the GOP has been unusually audacious in recent times, perhaps buoyed by Guru Rove's declaration of a Thousand Year Reich, which has sadly (Schadenfreude) gone down in flames.Tulsannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-56677318139110940652010-02-21T22:57:31.770-06:002010-02-21T22:57:31.770-06:00We may be assured that the GOP will have completel...<i>We may be assured that the GOP will have completely "forgotten" in their messaging that the downturn began well under Bush, long before Obama arrived.</i><br /><br />I agree with <i>that</i>. That is what politicians <i>do</i>, after all. Personally, I am pretty well convinced that poor economic policy through Democrat and Republican administrations and congresses alike, going back for decades, is at the root of the current recession/depression. I do not blame the Obama administration for <i>causing</i> it; that would be absurd. I do think they are exacerbating it and prolonging it, and, voter memory being what it is, it seems likely to me that the pendulum is going to swing somewhat away from the Democratic Party this November, regardless of what Politifact has to say about Scott Brown--and that was my only point vis-a-vis this post.<br /><br /><i>The GOP continues to wage a propaganda war.</i><br /><br />Tulsan, you tickle me! Like <i>Democrats</i> never engage in such things... :)Man of the Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691063580228409415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-26837341569329355642010-02-20T11:04:01.688-06:002010-02-20T11:04:01.688-06:00The comments moved to this article: Abortion measu...The comments moved to this article: <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=16&articleid=20100220_16_A1_OKLAHO870365&archive=yes&allcom=1" rel="nofollow">Abortion measure unlawful, judge says</a>Tulsannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-76609421847645064792010-02-19T19:53:28.307-06:002010-02-19T19:53:28.307-06:00While on the World's site, I looked at this st...While on the World's site, I looked at this story: <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20100219_14_0_OKLAHO398221&rss_lnk=1&allcom=1" rel="nofollow">Judge rules Oklahoma abortion law unconstitutional</a><br /><br />I'm stunned at the nearly unanimous supportive tenor of the comments. You would think this is a blue state if you dropped onto this page. Maybe someday...Tulsannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-26159868704955847642010-02-19T18:31:02.859-06:002010-02-19T18:31:02.859-06:00I'm glad to see you citing data, MotW. Include...I'm glad to see you citing data, MotW. Included in one of your cites is this: <br /><br />"The economy has lost 8.4 million jobs since the start of the downturn in December 2007"<br /><br />We may be assured that the GOP will have completely "forgotten" in their messaging that the downturn began well under Bush, long before Obama arrived.<br /><br />How soon you can turn around a reverse of that magnitude? Probably not quickly.<br /><br />The GOP continues to wage a propaganda war. Luckily we have sites like Politifact to shoot down these fabrications as they are floated out by pols like Brown.Tulsannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-87633197070341124832010-02-19T06:48:48.587-06:002010-02-19T06:48:48.587-06:00No doubt such astute commentators have already fig...No doubt such astute commentators have already figured this out, but you're going to have an awfully tough time selling the idea--actually, if I'm not mistaken, the polling indicates that you <i>are</i> having an awfully tough time--selling the idea that the stimulus has created any jobs, Politifact or not. <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobless-price-data-fan-rb-1321801194.html?x=0" rel="nofollow">The jobless rate is up</a>, not down, since the stimulus, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/35457298" rel="nofollow">and doesn't look like it's getting any better.</a> And like it or not, you may rest assured that voters will likely hold Democrats accountable for it in November.Man of the Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691063580228409415noreply@blogger.com