Must Read from Gene Lyons: GOP Acting Like They've Already Scored a Big November Victory

[flpoljunkie]

GOP suffering from LeBron James syndrome
They're acting like they've already scored a big November victory. But they might not

BY GENE LYONS

That said, there’s no reason to treat a GOP takeover of the House or Senate as inevitable or even particularly likely. The campaigning hasn’t really begun, and there’s some evidence Obama may be rounding into playing shape — ready to call the Republicans on their obstructionism.

During a recent radio address, he hammered them for refusing to extend unemployment benefits for long-term jobless workers even while demanding an extension of the Bush tax cuts for millionaires. “So after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, including a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans,” Obama said, “they’ve finally decided to make their stand on the backs of the unemployed.”

Exactly. With 14 million Americans jobless, Republicans are all about cutting Scrooge McDuck’s taxes. Also Rush Limbaugh’s, Donald Trump’s and, come to think of it, LeBron James’. Toward which end they’ve begun ritually chanting one of the most easily refuted GOP zombie lies: the one that says that slashing Uncle Scrooge’s income taxes leads to greater government revenues.

That’s how you get ludicrous headlines like this from Roll Call: "McConnell Blasts Deficit Spending, Urges Extension of Tax Cuts." It’s the equivalent of “Paris Hilton Releases Sex Video, Vows Chastity.”

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/07/21/republicans_lebron_james

[MannyGoldstein]

1. "It's the economy, stupid"

Jim Carville was right on that one. Unless Obama gets the WPA started in the next couple of months, Democrats are toast.

Right, Senator Brown?

[Bitwit1234]

2. The basis of their belief is the takeover of congress in 1994

they are trying to say that since it happened then it will happen now. WRONG. Americans are more informed now than they were then. They know what republicans do when they get in office....look at the eight years under Bush.