Mon. April 30, 2012:
Yea, verily, there are Republican humorists:
1. Check out Eric Cantor in this crowd, smiling if not exactly laughing:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-obamas-full-2012-whcd-speech/2012/04/28/gIQAGNYboT_video.html
2. John Eastman, in the Bloomberg View: Conservatives' upcoming victories in the Supreme Court are NOT the fault of Obama's Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli. They are Obama's fault, for saddling poor Verrilli with untenable positions!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-29/arizona-leads-u-s-in-real-immigration-reform.html
3. Rob Long, "The Long View," in The National Review:
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/294782/bethesda-mental-health-clinic
4. The Republicans' "confidence fairy" may be dead: "Confidence-inspiring policies [like no regulations on big business, no taxes on the rich, and big cuts to welfare spending] will foster and not hamper economic recovery," Paul Krugman quotes former European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet. Adds Krugman: "Appeals to the wonders of confidence are something Herbert Hoover would have found completely familiar -- and faith in the confidence fairy has worked out about as well for modern Europe as it did for Hoover's America [of 1929-1933]."
So now, with Sarkozy about to lose to a French socialist, and even the Dutch rebelling against austerity,policies, "this was the month the confidence fairy died," writes Krugman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/opinion/krugman-death-of-a-fairy-tale.html?_r=1
Loved the Rob Long!
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