REPUBLICAN CHUTZPAH WATCH

The latest Republican talking points regarding the Democrats not being able to get anything noteworthy done. Of course if you've been paying attention for the last few years you know that being Republicans, what they accuse their opponents of is actually themselves looking in a mirror. From Kevin Drum.

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"You have to give Republicans points for consistency. They bring the Senate to a halt and then blame Democrats for not getting anything done. They destroy FEMA's ability to respond to natural disasters and then hold it up as an example of why you can't trust government to do anything right. They lose a war via unparalleled military incompetence and then claim that liberals are defeatists for pointing it out. They spend 20 years claiming that Social Security is going bankrupt and then use the resulting public insecurity about Social Security as an explanation for why the whole system needs to be privatized."

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