Just Last Week - GOP Was Saying Its Just A Business Cycle. Don't Do Anything

[Median Democrat]

If there is any doubt that big media merely lets the GOP spout off Karl Rove/Rush Limbaugh talking points, notice this exchange from Senator Bob Corker on CNN, then the remarks by Karl Rove a few weeks ago?

I am sure the Republicans will quickly forget their advocacy of inaction, then argue that Obama should be doing more.

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CORKER: OK. BLITZER: Go ahead, Candy.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Senator, it is probably pretty to say that this bill is going to look more like what President Obama wants than like what you would like to see and what most Republicans would like to see.

us assume that it goes out there and, in fact, does begin to turn the economy around.

Aren't you then on the wrong side of this politically?

Do you not then sort of doom this party to minority ship, if you will, for the next election and beyond?

CORKER: Well, I think that's a great question. And, Candy, I came here to major in substance, OK, not to major in sort of the politics of the issues. And on substance, I just think this is the wrong thing.

I hope the economy turns around. And, by the way, with or without a stimulus, at some point, the economy is going to turn around because we have cycles, OK.

But I truly -- this is not a political vote to me. I cannot possibly imagine how this type of spending within government is going to create jobs.

And so I hope the economy turns around. I hope it happens by the time the next election occurs. I do not see this at all as a political risk. I see this as something I'm voting my conscience. I've been in business all of my life. I was a commission of finance for a state. I know how this money gets expended in state government and here at the federal government. And I just do not believe this is a stimulus bill.

But I hope, Candy, I hope that huge jobs are created, because there are so many people in my state, so many people all across our country that need jobs...

BLITZER: All right...

CORKER: ...but they will not be created because of this stimulus package, I can assure you of that.

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"Rove’s two cents:

In his Wall Street Journal column today, Karl Rove applauds the way congressional Republicans played their hand during the stimulus, saying that they were smart to point out politically unpopular spending provisions; that they were “gracious” in talking with the Obama White House (really?); and that they were wise to propose alternative solutions (tax cuts). , echoing our comment above, he also issues this warning to his party: “Republicans predict economic doom, they will overplay their hand. The Democratic stimulus will slow recovery, but not stop it. Recessions don't last forever and, if history is a guide, sometime late this year or early next the economy will rebound on its own.n that happens, Democrats will argue that their untargeted, permanent spending actually revived the economy.”

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[AndyA]

1. That's right, the fundamentals of the economy are basically sound.

We know that to be the truth because John McCain told us so. :eyes: