on Rachel NOW

Jared Bernstein sounds like lying used-car salesman on spending freeze!

pow pow!

discretionary spending freeze except for Defense,Homeland Security and State. What a crock. Rachel's right: it's stupid and it smacks of Herbert Hoover. Yet the middle class won't be hurt....

My disgust with Obama grows daily

see the name--this is BIDEN's econ advisor? un-fricken-believable.

She even compared the proposed spending freeze to what McCain proposed. And even after the difference was explained, she kept grinding her ax.

I've differed with this administration on a number of issues but I also like to get more information before setting my opinion in stone. Looks like Rachel came to the discussion with a fragment of information and wasn't prepared to listen to new details.

She talked about Economics 101. It sounds like she needs to go back to Journalism 101 tonight.

Maybe you need to go toe-to-toe with a Rhodes Scholar?

And then he disagreed. She asked McKinnon that of course Republicans would not go along with Obama - Right?!.

But he said that there would be agreement because a freeze is consistent with conservative ideals.

Oooops. I guess the Rhodes scholar tripped.

Look, I don't know the details of the proposal and neither do you. I'm just going to hold my powder until I learn more. I find it convenient to know more before I leap into snark and rage. And I reserve the right to disagree with people I hold in esteem, including Obama and Rachel.

I did pretty well because I never tripped during a job interview. My investigating skills were appreciated for the better part of 30 years and then I retired.

Conducting investigations helped teach me to gather facts before I make a final decision. You might try it yourself.

Please take the last word if you need that. I'm done with your silliness. Good night.

Or are you only capable of snark and run?

C'mon smarty pants. Give with a compare and contrast since you're so sure.

Barring all the crap you just spewed at me, a spending freeze in a recession is never a good idea. Do you think Democrats are going to rally around this? A 3 year spending freeze? Spending freeze! One of our new rallying cries! It's a gimmick. The military gets everything they want. The rest of us get to pay the bill. Evan Bayh and Bill Nelson are thrilled. When the DLC is happy, watch your wallet.

So I did a simple Google search and look what I found from March 24, 2009:
Grassley Proposes Insane 3 Year Spending Freeze
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been on a roll recently. In the last few weeks, he suggested that AIG executives commit suicide, advocated lying about comparative effectiveness research and electronic medical records, and is now pushing an insane, debilitating spending freeze as a response to our economic ills:

“What you get when you have an across-the-board freeze is everybody is seen as contributing something,” Mr. Grassley said…adding that a three-year freeze would produce a more dramatic effect. “Over a period of time, there’s something predictable about a freeze, and over a period of time it makes a big difference…The multiplier effect of freezing something for three years is very dramatic.”

As Paul Krugman wrote regarding a spending freeze, “that’s not a retrogression to Herbert Hoover; even Hoover knew better than that.” David Brooks agreed, calling such a move “insane.”

A freeze would have the “dramatic effect” of providing dangerous anti-stimulus at the precise moment when stimulus is needed most. It’s a shame that this policy prescription is coming from Grassley, who can be so reasonable when not engaging in crazy rhetoric.

will you pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee!!

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it was a bigger story than Obama coming here..