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Friday, March 27, 2009

NATE SILVER OF "FIVE THIRTY-EIGHT" EXPLAINS THE GOP BUDGET PROPOSAL




In their eagerness to answer President Obama's challenge to come up with an alternative budget, the Republican leadership unveiled their budget yesterday to a skeptical public. John Boehner tried to explain how giving more tax cuts to the top 1 percent wealthiest Americans would increase revenues, but was unable to complete his explanation due to the ear-splitting derisive laughter coming from reporters--mainstream, liberal, and conservative.

DISCLAIMER: No teleprompters were used in the reporting of this story.

UPDATE: The GOP will deliver their detailed budgetWednesday.
Wednesday, April 1.
April Fool's Day.
The GOP is now promising to deliver its budget on April Fool's Day.

5 comments:

James' Muse said...

Wow. I just choked on my breakfast.

Unknown said...

It's healthy to interrupt the sometimes depressing dealings with our serious problems, with a little humor.

Anonymous said...

A budget without numbers - that's precious!

Arthurstone said...

Interesting proposal from the GOP.

Much more nuanced & comprehensive than I'd supposed.

Weepy John Boehner is, as always, a marvel.

Heh. Heh.

Joe "Truth 101" Kelly said...

I didn't notice any funding for deregulation on there Shaw. That must be on the next installment.