Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"And the point we make in this preamble to our pledge is that we are not going to be any different than what we have been."
-- House Minority Leader John Boehner, introducing the GOP's 21-page Pledge to America

What's the saying about insanity, doing the same thing and expecting the samedifferent results? I guess the Tea Party fervency is not getting through to the GOP. And apparently part of the pledge is to get rid of TARP, which was started by (and in my opinion because of) a Republican administration, not that the fact that it was a Bush program is ever mentioned.

I received an anti-Obama email from my dad yesterday, I'm not an Obama fan boy, I just thought he was better than the alternative. I replied:
>Yep, That's right. Only 8% [of Obama's cabinet had worked in private industry allegedly] ..the
>least by far of the last 19 Presidents. And these people are trying to tell our big corporations
>how to run their business? They know what's best for GM...Chrysler... Wall Street... and you and me?

GM? Saved by the government through taxpayers dollars.
Chrysler? Same.
Wall Street? Same.

The days of "What's good for GM is good for the country", which is a misquote, are long gone.

Meanwhile, Forbes is reporting that the wealth disparity is reaching the level it was at in the late 1920's, which was only corrected by the stock market crash. Disparity started growing radically again in the early 1980's -- Reaganomics and their favorite trickle-down theory which seems to work well in the classroom but doesn't seem to do much in reality.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130052776

I'm not an advocate for wealth redistribution, but I do believe in fair taxation, and the Bush tax cuts were anything but fair.

Comments

[silveradept]

The phrase is insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, which could be what the GOP is up to, certainly.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

My bad. Little sleep, early rising, long day.

Thanks!