Good Lord, They’re Doing It Again

Posted on 02/06/2009 at 3:31 pm by Bob Cesca

They’re lying and distorting another CBO report.

Drudge is currently pushing a Washington Times article (I know, right?) claiming that the CBO thinks the recovery bill will hurt economic growth over the long run.

Of course as we’ve pointed out here, the CBO also claims that, in the near term, the bill will create significant economic growth and millions of new jobs. But the Washington Times has picked out a couple of lines about how the debt will “reduce output slightly in the long run” and therefore EPIC FAIL!

Ezra Klein points out two things that rip the shit out of Drudge and the Washington Times. First, the CBO writes that the reduction in GDP would only be .3 percent (that’s point-three percent) by 2019 (growth this year alone would be 4.1 percent with the recovery bill). Second, this reduction in GDP would only happen if we do absolutely nothing about reducing the debt. If we haven’t done anything about reducing the debt by 2019, we probably don’t deserve to have economic growth — or an economy. Or anything.

Hmm. Help me out on this one. Was the Washington Times for or against the Bush Republican policies that succeeded in increasing the national debt from $5.7 trillion to $9.8 trillion in eight years?

What am I thinking!? Drudge and the Washington Times were totally opposed to the Bush wars, tax cuts and budget deficits.

Right?

No?

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  • GIthePotato

    GODDAMNIT BOB!!!Stop with the Math and Facts and get to the beliefs and snake handling.I swear on everything holy that if Arlen Specter votes “Nay” on this thing I am going to start and anti-campaign against his 81 year old ass in 2010. I will even go as far as to keep my residency after moving the fuck out of this state in May.

  • origins

    GI, you’re certainly the militant.I do not and never did necessary say Iraq was money well spent. Read it again if you possibly can. I tried to put things in perspective as to the cost.My daughter-in-law did 2 tours in Falusia Iraq 2 years ago, she says nothing remotely similar to what you say. Niether does her husband.Main combat there was over in months, and blame Saddam if you want to blame someone, He was the one who played shell games with inspectors and didn’t come clean when given over 14 months.40,000g of Vx gas is still unaccounted for, some believe it went to Syria. Clinton wanted him gone way back in 1998, Operation Desert Fox… Regime Change Act.. Why did he have tons of Yellowcake? 10′s of millions of dollars worth, shipped to Canada just last June 2008. What did he need that for? Why was he bribing thousands of officials to have sanctions lifted? why did he pay suicide bomber’s families $25,000?Yes people lost their lives, and suffered, our enemies slaughtered many of them.( Or was it you )Saddam slaughtered more in the past. People lived in fear, wives raped, elementary children plucked weekly.Now they have a chance for a new beginning, apparently no thanks to you scumbag whiner.You’re certainly no scholar, so give it up.

  • Alan4s

    Bullshit origins.We had no reason to invade Iraq. We should have kept all of our resources after Bin Laden. Period.

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca

    >>My daughter-in-law did 2 tours in Falusia Iraq 2 years agoWe thank her for her service.For future reference, it’s “Fallujah.” Then again I often write “Keddiesberg” and “Afkanostam.”Also, this…>>I do not and never did necessary say Iraq was money well spent….doesn’t make sense with this:>>Now they have a chance for a new beginning, apparently no thanks to you scumbag whiner.You either support the invasion/occuption of Eerack or you don’t.

  • Lee B.

    boy, the trolls are out in full force the last couple of days. Rush certainly has them all in a tizzy. I gotta admit, it’s pretty impressive how they’ve all mobilized in lockstep to the words of that drug-addled sex tourist.

  • AdyLeigh

    Ah, so this is the report that fucking cardboard cut-out Mitt ” Who Let the Dogs Out” Romney referenced this morning when he had his stupid ass all over CNN to say how wrong the “cute little black president” was in his approach to the economy. It was so patronizing and disgusting that it sounded downright racist.Also Lindsey Graham has quoted this report now and taken on the same racist tone. I’ve about had as much as I can take.

  • GItheScholar

    Falusia. huh?Daughter in law did tours. huh?She says nothing remotely similar to what you say. Neither does her husband. huh?Main combat there was over in months. huh?Let me systemically challenge all of this mess.First and Second, I fucked your daughter in law on both my deployments. Thank you for servicing your country. Every time I was in Fallujah I got a piece. Again thank you!Third, if you never leave the Forward Operation Base or hold one of your dying soldiers in your arms you will have a different point of view of Iraq. Plus, the only thing she saw was my nut sack.Fourth, just because our idiot former president declared combat operations over didn’t mean a FUCKING THING!!! Look at the death toll around 2004-2006 time period. You will see that hundreds of soldiers were dying every month. Remember the whole IED and no vehicle armor thingy? That happened after we overstayed our welcome.Finally, I make it a point to trash every single motherfucker that didn’t go to Iraq and tries to tell me what the fuck happen. Please continue this madness. I HAVE A CHUBBY!!!Oh…I am too scholar!

  • myrightfoot

    I am laughing sooo hard at how mad you girls get when anyone differs with you! Then you start name calling and pitching bitch fits and using your invisible internet wall to keep from honest face to face discourse.Cant we all just get along-not!yes, yes, I know, here come the nasty words, ouweeeeeeeee

  • origins

    Yes, Fallujah, thank you.And she was there in early 2004-2005.And we see you lie with ease.And you can’t fathom the questions I asked.Urban American cities see the same death tolls.Welcome home.I don;t know the answers All I can work withis the future, and Iraq now has a better onethen they had before.American has freed 37 other nations from bondage.You can be proud you contributed to something productive, and dwell on the negative means of obtaining what is, a nobel cause. The spreadof democracy and freedom.

  • Lee B.

    “I am laughing sooo hard at how mad you girls get when anyone differs with you! Then you start name calling and pitching bitch fits and using your invisible internet wall to keep from honest face to face discourse.Cant we all just get along-not!yes, yes, I know, here come the nasty words, ouweeeeeeeee”LOL! That’s rich coming from the 2nd troll after the 1st troll lobbed this stinkbomb at the top of the thread:”Now they have a chance for a new beginning, apparently no thanks to you scumbag whiner.”