Super Stupid

Wow…that’s some pretty epic stupid. Its not like we went from spending 0 to spending a trillion, We were gonna spend a trillion and a half before…

He takes his voters for fucking morons and he’s pretty much correct.

Also, Robot Insurance! Don’t leave home without it……

He’s right. It makes much more sense to give away a trillion dollars and just hope it comes back someday. If you love something, set it free…

What Paddy said.Pence knows this is ridiculous and he also knows the repub base will believe anything that he tells them

I love it when you use swears, Bob. You don’t fucking do it enough.

Meanwhile, Pence’s party has spent trillions of dollars on things that DON’T give us anything beneficial in return. The Iraq War. Missile Defense. War on Drugs. Tax cuts for super-rich.The Tea Partiers have conveniently decided that government spending is out of control since January 20, 2009.Or they just really hate having a smart, black president.

You forgot to add Pence concluded his remarks with “all you common folks get the hell off my lawn!”He of the Orange Boner Tribe, I mean Bohner, seems to believe everyone invests like the Republicans. They invested all of our money in the first eight years of this decade and it disappeared. No wonder they can’t figure out how truly investing in the future can BUILD something good!I HOPE someone in Congress puts in an amendment on HCR which calls for stripping the Healthcare Benefits of any member who fails to vote for this Bill.Seems fair and balanced!

Hey Toastie, don’t forget the little adventure in Iraq was done mostly off the books – another accounting trick that would put you or me in jail.

I like this analogy: I own a home with old drafty windows. Heating bills are going thru the roof. I spent $5,000 on new, double-pane, insulating windows. In 5 years, I have saved $10,000 in heating bills. Net outcome: Saved $5000! Hurray for math!!!

Terry, why would you spend money on something that’s not going to pay off for another five years? I guess someone’s not getting saved in The Rapture.

Have to agree with Paddy.In my opinion, no Republican gets to critisize spending for atleast the next 20 years following the Bush years.

Brutlyhonest,”accounting tricks”-> patriotic (ask Oliver North)”parliamentary tricks”-> treasonous (ask Michelle Bachmann)

Republicans have been ignoring, or attacking, the CBO deficit-reducing score based solely on accusations that the CBO is being intentionally mislead by the president.In other words, the president is trying to “Iraq us.”I watched Michael Steele on CNN yesterday and he basically accused the president of presenting a fraudulent account to the American people. He said the CBO is not to be trusted.Wingnuts have also been bombarding message boards with Paul Ryan’s Healthcare Summit quote: “I work with [the people at the CBO] every single day — very good people, great professionals. They do their jobs well, but their job is to score what is placed in front of them. And what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke-and-mirrors.”Now, what wingnuts ignore, here, or conveniently exclude, is that moments later, Rep. Xavier Becerra(D-CA) called bullshit on Paul Ryan and exposed the fatal flaw in his argument, which was Paul Ryan uses the CBO frequently to present his budget “proposals.”The Wallstreet Journal has been spouting the same line, saying of the Obama administration and the CBO: “Yesterday Mr. Obama again invoked the ‘nonpartisan, independent’ authority of CBO, which misses the reality that if you feed the agency phony premises, you are going to get phony results at the other end.”(emphasis mine)So, Obama is misleading the CBO, according to Rightwingnuttia.And one more thing about Paul Ryan.Howard Gleckman writes of Paul Ryan’s critically acclaimed deficit-reducing budget proposal intended to balance the budget by 2080 (National Review Online calls it “a roadmap to solvency.”)Gleckman:

But, and this caveat is a whopper, CBO assumed this wonderful outcome would occur only if the revenue portion of Ryan’s plan generated 19 percent of GDP in taxes. And there is not the slightest evidence that would happen. Even though Ryan’s plan has a detailed tax component, his staff asked CBO to ignore it. Rather than estimate the true revenue effects of the Ryan plan, CBO simply assumed, as the lawmaker requested, that it would generate revenues of 19 percent of GDP.You know the old joke: Two economists are stranded on a desert island with only canned food to eat. But they have no way to open the containers. What do we do,” asks one. “Assume a can opener,” replies the other.When it comes to Ryan’s plan, CBO has, in effect, assumed the can opener.

Project much?

My apologies. I didn’t extend my block quote far enough.This part was also Gleckman:

“You know the old joke: Two economists are stranded on a desert island with only canned food to eat. But they have no way to open the containers. What do we do,” asks one. “Assume a can opener,” replies the other.”

“When it comes to Ryan’s plan, CBO has, in effect, assumed the can opener.”

I agree with PaddyHe takes his voters for fucking morons and he’s pretty much correct.

Jane Hamsher is worse.Her latest screed.:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/fact-sheet-the-truth-abou_b_506026.html

(@Nicole473) Oh wow. That’s as many strawmen in one post as Glenn Beck uses in an entire five minutes. (both represent large numbers.) I wonder what kind of progressive victory we’ll have if the bill fails. I mean, we’re going to pick right up and introduce single-payer, right?Right????? [/snark]

You know, as someone who resides in Mr. Pence’s district, I’m gonna have to co-sign Paddy… They really are morons.Please keep the spotlight on him, Bob. God knows he will provide you the most excellent of “I can’t believe what a fucking idiot this guy is” column fodder forever.Thanks for all you do. I’m a long time fan.