David Frum Calls the GOP Brain Dead for Their Theatrics Over the Stimulus Bill

On 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. David Frum calls the GOP brain dead for their theatrics over the stimulus bill and says they should be having policy debates instead. The trouble with his argument is that they did have those policy debates. They got some tax cuts into the bill, and tax cuts aren't going to get our economy out of the mess it's in.

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[dralavant]

But David, how will your plan effect the people who have lost their jobs? That's the problem with the Republicans. They're talking about "the Now"; Obama is talking about "the Future"! We need to first get people back to work in order for them to be able to benefit from Payroll taxcuts that you republicans talk about all the time. It's simple even my little nephew understands Obama's plan.

[xhagast]

I don't agree with David Frum in some things but he is right that the Republicans should be pushing better ideas rather than just saying NO to everything. With ideas they could split the electorate, claim credit when successful, lay blame when rejected and failure follows and look busy and competent. They just look idiotic by acting like this.

[dleechristy]

@xhagast - True! But worse yet they are so willing to HARM The country just so they can "screw" one man, Obama, and get a republican elected in 2012.

We are just "collateral damage" in their war against the hated Obama.

[ExtraordinaryViews]

all politicians are brain dead

[gombis666]

800 trillion....uh huh.

[btwall60]

Hey Dave, I don't hav a "Palin Problem" the shitty media does and so do you.

Stick you next blog up your ass Dave.

bt

[thesparitan]

this is were republicans can do some good the tax plan is great i think but we liberals have better healthcare

[JohnnyRock2000]

Frum is a Canadian turned American. Bush fired him as a speechwriter. He's a zionist deceitful prick that will support anyone that will drop bombs for Israel.

[rodney1776]

If I were a Republican lawmaker, David Frum couldn't pay to advise me. while Bush was in office he and Bill Kristol and the American Interprise Institute neocon nutjobs proposed every idiotic spending plan know to mankind. I don't know whyt anybody would pay for this guys advice on how to effectively take a shit. Moron.

[EasyEs]

They lost the election badly..it didn't look that bad? I think you are discounting the possibility that the huge amount of risk taken by Obama will not work out and cost the tax payer a huge amount for very little gain..I am not going to say that the rest of the world told you so when we abandoned the economic policies your president is pushing..but I will say you should have been paying attention.

[IndiMusicLover]

Republicans are a bunch of ignorant malcontents, who can be worked into a frenzy about anything. They simply can't live with the reality that they lost the election so badly. Their desperation has lead them to look increasingly insane. Their divorce from reality and retreat into the political netherland of subjective hate and fear, runs counter to the direction of the conciousness of our country. These Palinesque optics will lead them to a major defeat in 2010 and 2012. Life is beautiful.

[sulfurScratch]

lol...the new GOP still brings no new ideas to the table...tisk tisk