DeMint (R-SC) "...but his stimulus is a mugging"

[katty]

more:http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/demint-i-like-obama-but-hes-mugging-the-american-people.php

EXCERPT:
...And DeMint gave some love back today at the Heritage Foundation, delivering a speech that encapsulates the emerging Republican strategy for dealing with the popular president. He plays nice early on ...

I like President Obama very much. We were elected to the Senate at the same time and we've worked together on a number of common goals. I believe he wants to do what is best for our country ...
... and then he gets nasty.

The stimulus bill that is being championed by President Obama, which was passed by Democrats in the House last night, is the worst piece of economic legislation Congress has considered in a hundred years. Not since the passage in 1909 of the 16th Amendment - which cleared the way for a federal income tax - has the United States seriously entertained a policy so comprehensively hostile to economic freedom, nor so arrogantly indifferent to economic reality. ...
This bill is not a stimulus, ladies and gentlemen; it is a mugging. It is a fraud.


DeMint's preferred solution? You guessed it, folks: make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Why add to the deficit to create jobs when you can

[Deja Q]

1. "economic freedom" - such as "trickle down economics"?

[DCKit]

2. Quelle Suprise. n/t

[notadmblnd]

3. where was the outcry when the banks were mugging us?

[katty]

4. indeed-where?!

[bstender]

5. exactly n/t

[AndyA]

6. Wrong DeMint. The mugging occurred when BUSH was in office.

And you were one of the ones that enabled him.

Shame on you, and shame on the rest of your kind! Our country is in a mess right now because of you. You do not know the way out of the mess, that's very obvious by your idiotic statements.

The mugging is over and done with. The American people will bear the scars and bruises of the Bush years for some time to come.

[natrat]

7. it's like watching some idiot take a multiple choice test and miss every question

[bemildred]

8. "Elections have consequences." nt