Wow. Asshole Howard Fineman is dumping all over Bush on

[joemurphy]

Tweety.

[joemurphy]

1. Scarborough calls it "the WPA on Steroids"...

[bettyellen]

4. jinx, you owe me a coke!

[Marr]

5. WPA? What's that mean?

[Seeking Serenity]

8. WPA = Works Progress Administration

A New Deal program.

[Marr]

17. Oh, ok.

Thanks.

[lancdem]

10. Works Progress Administration

It was a New Deal program.

[mnhtnbb]

13. Works Progress Administration

Created in 1935 by FDR to provide economic relief to citizens during the Great Depression through a series of work projects.

[PA Democrat]

14. It refers to the Works Progress Administration created by Roosevelt

and which put Americans to work during the Great Depression building this country's infrastructure.

[librechik]

16. FDR work program, for the uemployed during the Great Depression

the federal govt paid folks to build bridges, clean streets etc.

saved a lot of people from starving

[question everything]

20. Part of FDR's New Deal

The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 with the signing of Executive Order 7034.

It was the largest and most comprehensive New Deal agency. Headed by Harry L. Hopkins, it was a "make work" program that provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression. WPA projects primarily employed blue-collar workers in construction projects across the nation, but also employed white-collar workers and artists on smaller-scale projects, and even ran a circus.

According to author Nick Taylor, "The WPA built 650,000 miles of roads, 78,000 bridges, 125,000 buildings, and seven hundred miles of airport runways... It presented 225,000 concerts to audiences totalling 150 million, and produced almost 475,000 works of art. Even today, almost sixty years after it ceased to exist, there is no part of America that does not bear some mark of the WPA."

With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, Franklin D. Roosevelt shut down the WPA on December 4, 1943.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

[populistdriven]

21. wiki explains all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

[joemurphy]

6. Tweety attacking it because "its just doling money out to

local government".

[bettyellen]

2. Scarbourough too... "The WPA on steroids"

[Patsy Stone]

11. You know what, betty?

I didn't watch (really, just couldn't) but I've been saying a WPA since the beginning. I figured that it was a bit too FDR in the face of this administration's desire to completely erase his legacy. Did he really propose this?

[Sydnie]

25. Yes Patsy, he did

He doesn't want to KILL FDR anymore ... he wants to BE FDR now.

[Patsy Stone]

33. Sweetie, darling

At least it's a better model to work from than the previous Atilla the Hun design. Oy.

I finally read the speech. Aside from the creepy backdrop and badly buttoned shirt, I don't think I missed much at all.

Nice to see you. Sorry about your tsuris and strife. Anytime you need a hug, you know where to come. :hug: :loveya:

[Marr]

3. I tell ya- that Fineman is cutting edge.

He's only eh... what? Five years late? Or thereabouts? Very astute. Steep learning curve on that one. I can see why he's given so much damned air time.

[joemurphy]

9. Bush is dead....

Liberals don't trust him; conservatives think the "recovery plan" is too liberal.

[joemurphy]

12. Carlson: "This is a lot for the base to accept."

[yankeedem]

7. Scarborough and Tweety basically laughing at the speech

Incredulous at the $200 billion- funny, they didn't raise an eyebrow about Iraq.

Scarborough wants federal oversight- funny, he isn't demanding it for Iraq.

[warrior1]

15. three strikes on a t-ball president.

[faithnotgreed]

18. didnt chris start out by calling the speech "breathtaking"

thats ok you dont need to answer that
he changes with the wind so there really is no answer to it

[yankeedem]

Yep, another Tweety flipflop

He couldn't sell the "FDResque" meme so he switched gears.

[faithnotgreed]

28. ha - that made me laugh because that is exactly what i can believe

about chris

[LSK]

19. Tucker saying Bush NOT a conservative

[Neshanic]

22. Tucker is backing away from the gang like a bucket of rotten fish.

[faithnotgreed]

24. he is libertarian so i imagine he especially hates this

wonder what pat buchanan will say
ha

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. Puppet.

Pee-pee.

Bankie!

[Marr]

30. What's so damn shocking about this? He's ok with big money for

Halliburton, but not for people? I don't understand that- not that I believe Bush's bullshit for a second, of course.

[highplainsdem]

23. Wasn't it Fineman who said Bush will be keelhauled, and should be?

Think he was the one who said that, a couple of weeks ago...

[faithnotgreed]

26. yes that was him - hmmm

i dont think bush did himself any political favors with this speech

gergen isnt impressed either apparently
how will country pay for all this esp with iraq and no call for sacrifice PLUS tax cuts

utterly unbelievable

good

[Catrina]

29. Easy, end the war

and bring home the troops!!

Funny how Chris and Joe and Tucker never made a peep about the billions being wasted in Iraq!!

I hope now all that money will be spent here, to end poverty, to help the victims of the hurricane re-establish their lives.

Is some of that going to cover insurance claims? I hope not! Bring home the troops and end the neo-con reign of terror.

I didn't watch it ~ but it seems Bush has become a liberal. Maybe his trips to NO affected him the same way they affected all those reporters. He's had an epiphany!!

What is a liberal? A Conservative who's been arrested!!! Or, is about to be?? :rofl:

[malaise]

31. All the contradictions are now public knowledge

it's over. Katrina killed the neo-con dream.
edit - add sentence.

[FlaGranny]

32. I can't help it -

all this makes me laugh. Whoever thought Katrina could result in a laugh.

Moral of story - Bush can't please anyone and he's incapable of bringing about consensus. He has polarized the country so much that now EVERYONE is pissed at him. He is reaping what he has sown.

[Jawja]

36. Well, after all, he

IS a uniter!

[AnnInLa]

34. I think it was on the early part of Tweetyville tonight

that a pundit (can't remember who) said that bush's previous broad support has shrunken to just his core base. To at least satisfy that core base and not lose it over big spending, his next Supreme Court nominee will be ultra-ultra-conservative. Oh great.

[KingFlorez]

35. Their turning on their leader?

Because he's trying (or saying he is) to rebuild an American city! How stupid is that? Their just so afraid some poor black people will benefit from their precious taxpayer dollars. Guess what, money is green and knows no color.

[Kingofalldems]

37. Tweety seems to be a conservative at 5 PM

and a liberal at 7PM.