a liar, or just plain stupider than a lavatory plunger?

[realthog]

I report, you decide. Well, in fact, it's Harper's Weekly that reports:

The House and Senate reached agreement on a $789 billion economic-stimulus plan, which President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law despite a lack of support from Republicans. "When Roosevelt did this," said Representative Steve Austria (R., Ohio), "he put our country into a Great Depression. That's just history."

Um, no, Rep. Austria. It's not.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'm a both/and sort of guy, myself.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when you leave your education in the hands of Republicans.

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

He's obviously just pandering to try win the highly competitive title of "Dumbest Republican".

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

I read it as `Steve Austin' and wondered why the Six Million Dollar Man was in Congress.

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

Wait, what?

...

Cognitive dissonance: let me show you it.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Isn't this just amazing, these new talking points? Their entire strategy now is to obstruct and sabotage anything and everything that is being done, to make everything so very bad that people will cry out for tyranny. They think this is A Plan, and an Excellent Plan to boot. They aren't even trying to hide it. They really believe they in charge.

Off this topic, however, is a book someone sent Vaquero that might be of interest in your science projects: Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics (2007) by Edward T. Haslam. The publisher is something called TrineDay. Vaquero loves conspiracy books. This one is disappointing because so much of the actual material is factually correct, which he knows himself. Whether the conclusions are, though, is something else. But it got him through some very slow subway commutes to office in LI City.

Love, C.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

This might need explaining?

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

It's both. One of the current Republican talking points is that Roosevelt started the Great Depression. "Which do you believe: Rush Limbaugh, or your lying high school history textbook?"

[tomaq.livejournal.com]

"...or just plain stupider than a lavatory plunger?"

If only there was a certified plumber who could answer that question.