Republican official attacking the New Deal as “fascist.”

[SpiralHawk]

Bwaaaa ha ha ha. The headline on this thread comes from today's New York Times, columnist Frank Rich quoting a headline from the NYT of 1938.

Some things are apparently eternal: Republicon hate of working Americans, Republicon 'elitism' favoring the rich, and the republicon economics of FAIL.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08rich.html?th&emc=th

Republicon Homelanders will Blow Chunks when they read this patriotic paragraph, and come to understand -- possibly -- that wanting America to FAIL is shooting themselves in the foot.

"At the director David Cromer’s shattering rendition of the play now running in Greenwich Village, it’s impossible not to be moved by that Act III passage where the Stage Manager comes upon the graves of Civil War veterans in the town cemetery. “New Hampshire boys,” he says, “had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, though they’d never seen more than 50 miles of it themselves. All they knew was the name, friends — the United States of America. The United States of America. And they went and died about it.”

[Larkspur]

1. Here's a LTTE in a CT paper that blames Big Government not capitalis

published today in The New London Day

Big Government, Not Capitalism Caused Mess

I get tired of liberals equating greed with Wall Street. Greed is a human failing and has nothing to do with capitalism. There were greedy people before the advent of capitalism.

Our economic problems began in 1977 when Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act. The Clinton administration added tougher sanctions for banks that did not make loans to people who were poor risks for repaying mortgages. Banks faced fines if they did not make these loans.

Banks could not hold these bad-risk loans, so they sold them to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which were bludgeoned by Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank into purchasing bad-risk loans. The two quasi-government entities bundled and sold the bad-risk loans to the subprime market. This led to the housing bubble and much of the economic mess. And, former Federal Reserve Chairmen Alan Greenspan's policy to hold interest rates below the real rate of interest caused a credit bubble and debt-fueled consumption.

Big government got us into this economic mess. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedmen said: “If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, it won't be long before there is a shortage of sand.”

Conservative revisionist history is in full force.

[AllentownJake]

2. We might get our third party we've always wanted

I really can't see the GOP surviving long spouting this ridiculous shit.

[defendandprotect]

3. You know .. . in a way I agree . .. let's give them real free enterprise . . .

and sit back and watch capitalism dissolve very quickly into nothing.

Rescue the workers, of course --- and those with savings.

Rather, capitalism is fascism --- a ridiculous "King-of-the-Hill" system

intended to move a nation's wealth and assets from the many to the few . . .

and highly successful at doing that!

Unregulated capitalism is merely organized crime.

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