OK, that’s melodramatic. All that’s occurred so far is that their mediocre site has choked several times since I’ve tried to post a comment in response to a blog post there. The post blames President Obama for the jobs lost in the past 11 months and worries what it would mean if he does a “hard pivot” towards jobs creation in January.
Now, it might just be that the GOP site is poorly designed (other evidence suggests this) or that they’re just slow. And it might be that they don’t like hearing feedback from people who haven’t drunk their Kool-Aid. In any event, after my third attempt to post, I decided to cut-and-paste my comment and post it here. Ah, the joys of the vanity electronic press!
I totally agree. After all, it’s simply irrelevant that the economy inherited by the President was bleeding jobs at a rate unseen in 70 years, after his predecessor managed to follow a decade of strong growth with a decade of retrenchment, turning surpluses into deficits while squeezing the middle class and giving away trillions to the uber-rich. And it doesn’t really matter that many private forecasters believe that the economy would be in far more dire straits absent the stimulus (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/charts_and_graphs_that_will_fi_2.html), including shedding perhaps an additional 2% of jobs if the money -hadn’t- beeen spent.
What really counts is ideological purity, not pesky things like facts or reality. After all, if you stay pegged to reality, you might -never- get the chance to turn a national tragedy into carte blanche to launch your own war of choice against a nation completely unaffiliated with the attackers, while ignoring the fact that 15 out of 19 of them came from the Middle Eastern country that you and your daddy were so close to. And what would even -be- the point of being in power if you can’t shred two hundred years of judicial philosophy to pursue your own mean ends?
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