Rove Mocks Infrastructure Spending As ‘Goofy Pie-In-The-Sky Spending Ideas’
Rove Mocks Infrastructure Spending As ‘Goofy Pie-In-The-Sky Spending Ideas’
Yesterday, a water main break in Maryland trapped a dozen commuters in their cars and sent rescuers scrambling to pull motorists from frigid floodwaters. Despite the fact that officials had been warning for years of the dangers of the crumbling pipe system, Maryland did not have the money to make the necessary repairs. As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, the water main break is a wake-up call for the need for massive infrastructure spending by the federal government.
Just hours after the water main break, however, Karl Rove belittled the idea of infrastructure spending on Fox News, calling it “goofy, pie-in-the-sky spending ideas,” and agreed with host Rich Lowry that infrastructure spending doesn’t “make[] any economic sense”:
ROVE: What we’ve got to worry about some of these sort of goofy, pie-in-the-sky spending ideas in which this wisdom of the government is substituted for the wisdom of private individuals in the market, and there we have every right to question. For example, look, I’m in favor of infrastructure spending, but let’s be honest about it. It’s not stimulative. [...]
LOWRY: It also depends on — just because it’s an infrastructure project doesn’t mean it makes any economic sense.
ROVE: Exactly.
Watch it:
In fact, prominent economists agree that infrastructure spending will help boost the economy. As NPR reported, “Every $1 billion the federal government commits to roads, bridges and other infrastructure helps to support some 35,000 jobs.” A Center for American Progress report found that a $100 billion in a green infrastructure spending would create two million jobs in two years.
Rove echoed the conservative trope that cutting the corporate tax rate is the best way to stimulate the economy. In fact, the Bush administration has been “unusually aggressive” in forcing through corporate tax cuts this year. As the record of 2008 conclusively proves, cutting corporate taxes does nothing to stimulate the economy.
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Oh yes . . . let’s PLEASE listen to the party that ruined the economy in the first place.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:02 pmListening to Rove (or any other neo-con): The definition of insanity.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:03 pmRove Mocks Infrastructure Spending As ‘Goofy Pie-In-The-Sky Spending Ideas’»
– - How about a New Year’s resolution, TP? No more sage advice/warnings/comments from Karl Rove? I know that I’M done with this jerk.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:03 pmPlease stop posting about Rove. The man does not deserve the space. He helped Bush destroyed our country. Christmas season is here, give us a break from Rove.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:04 pmWhy do we even listen to this f_ck? It makes me throw up in my mouth just to see a picture of him.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pmI agree with joeBrigdgeman…..quit posting about him, NOW!!!
December 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pmjust quit talking to this guy or givnig him a stage from which to spot his idiocy.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:10 pm.
May the next bridge collapse on Rove…
May the next damn burst into Rove’s house…
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December 24th, 2008 at 1:13 pmJebus. When is this evil little moron going to STFU??????
December 24th, 2008 at 1:14 pmI disagree with those who say to stop posting about Rove. Keep reminding everyone of the evil mendacity of the architects of the catastrophic Bush administration.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:19 pmWhen posting about kkkarl rove, we must acknowledge that the only reason he is able to be a pundit on TV, “catapulting the propaganda” is because the DEMS gave him a “free-pass” and a “get out of jail free” card.
They issues a subpoena, he thumbed his nose, they refused to enforce – end of story. This is actually the dems fault.
Not some want to say, “geeee, kkkarl is saying all these bad things.”
kkkarl will always say bad things – that is not the problem. The problem is that the DEMS are who has enabled it to continue.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pmWhat qualifications does Rove have to make such statements? Is he an economist? Is he an engineer? Or is he just a low-life political hack?
December 24th, 2008 at 1:25 pmTP highlighted the wrong piece of Rovian mendacity.
What we’ve got to worry about some of these sort of goofy, pie-in-the-sky spending ideas in which this wisdom of the government is substituted for the wisdom of private individuals in the market, and there we have every right to question.
The wisdom of private individuals in the market has been working so well for us of late, hasn’t it? But the real dishonesty is that “conservatives” are perfectly happy to rely on with “wisdom of the government” as long as the Roves of the world are in charge. He’s only started fretting about that because a Democrat is moving into the White House.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:27 pmRebuilding our bridges and roads is a goofy idea? Only to the terminally stupid and greedy Republicans like Rover. Actually, our roads and bridges have been in steady decline since Reagan became President back in 1981: “No new taxes.” “Tax cuts.” “Greed is good.” Republican are (and were) wrong as usual. Dwight Eisenhower was the last competent and honest Republican President.
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December 24th, 2008 at 1:31 pmWhat happen in the Maryland didn’t happen and as we see our bridges colapse and people die Karl Rove thinks it’s more important to give Republican Business cronies more money we don’t have. Every day Americans are losing homes and jobs as Republicans strike down every idea Obama/Biden have to help the American people.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:31 pmRepukes count on corporations to do the right thing, and the right thing to Repukes is corruption, greed and donations to RNC.
Don’t ever count on Corporations to do the right thing for Americans, they could give a sh!t if you live or die.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pmWhen a bulb goes out in Karl’s house, does he question whether it makes “economic sense” to purchase a new one?
Does he ask himself, “Couldn’t the three bucks I’ll spend on a new pack of bulbs be better redirected towards cut in the corporate tax rate? That money will then trickle back down and I won’t need to ever need to pay for light bulbs again.”
December 24th, 2008 at 1:32 pmThe neocons seem to be operating on a “brainfart a day” principle. Is this their way of dealing with catastrophic failure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i_vquVDPgU
December 24th, 2008 at 1:38 pmBut a million trillion gazillion dollars on a fruitless, pointless, self-destructive war is ok?
December 24th, 2008 at 1:38 pmAren’t his fifteen minutes up? Can we move on now?
Trickle down economics has proven to be a failure more than once, unless you’re in the top 1%…
December 24th, 2008 at 1:39 pmBut Rove approves heartily of invading another country or two and rebuilding the infrastructure to the delight of his friends and fellow thieves. Well done, Rove. Rot in Hell.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:40 pm70 % of the American Corps pay no taxes so I guess Rove feels we need to include the other 30% I am so fcuking sick of republicans I could puke
December 24th, 2008 at 1:46 pmWhat did Rove say about the Bank-Wall Street bailout?
December 24th, 2008 at 1:46 pmTP, why are you obsessed with him? Move on. Get it?
December 24th, 2008 at 1:51 pmRove = shit for brains.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm#27, How did your “shit” get through the site monitor?
December 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pmAll you people saying we should ignore Rove are WRONG. When his only venue to spew these lies or propagandistic stupidity is a streetcorner THEN we can ignore him. As long as he has a public soapbox we ignore him at our peril. This is the advice the left took about the Oxymoron. We said just ignore him his lies and attacks will get old. How did THAT work out for us. I have heard REAL LIBERALS spew the lies and propaganda the right wants to be conventional wisdom more than once. When the other side isnt heard almost anything can be taken as a serious argument. NO do NOT ignore this subhuman slug. Slap down and expose his lies, his stupidity his lack of common decency EVERY TIME until no one takes him seriously and even FOX has to give up on him. When he is that drooling lunatic screaming at the park everyone knows is off his meds THEN and ONLY THEN should he be ignored.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pmTP, why are you obsessed with him? Move on. Get it?
You bring up a legit point of discussion, but he is going to be a lead mouthpiece for the echo chamber now.
What he says is a lot less important than the facts that the DEMS are who have enabled him to make the transition from a bit player in the criminal cabal behind dur chimpfurher to a lead-mainstream media propaganda shill.
I could accept the dialogs about what he says if the point was to generate an understanding why the DEMS need to take action and hold criminals accountable.
If folks want to pretend somehow dems are “victems” of “mean ol’ kkkarl, then I have to strongly object and agree whole-heartedly, stewarjt, with your point.
December 24th, 2008 at 1:58 pmSo Rove really thinks new jobs are “pie-in-the-sky”? He needs to be put out of work…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
December 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm28… no clue. I’m special, I guess. ;o)
December 24th, 2008 at 2:16 pm“…goofy, pie-in-the-sky spending ideas.”
I can think far more goofy (and downright manaical) spending ideas, like endless war!
December 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pmLet’s see: Last time I checked KKKarl Rove was a college dropout who has made his fame by dirty politics, lies, crimes. The problem with the W administration is that W allowed this ignorant man to enter into policy discussions. KKKarl Rove belongs in jail. There are many people in jail who are not as bad as KKKarl. The man is a menace and why he gets any space anywhere, I do not understand.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:20 pmJust in – Karl Rove knows nothing about economics or business.
What’s the net national (largely private) cost of dealing with decayed infrastructure? Personally, I had a muffler torn off by a pothole in DC a few years back – had to replace nearly the entire exhaust system.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:25 pmWhen will KKKarl Rove and the rest of the free trade marketeers realize privitizing doesn`t work because their is never any gov`t oversight or regulations because all of these prviteers are honest and care about the public….NOT.Our country is failing in every manner possible and these Reich wing Neocons can only think of giving work to their crooked cronies and friends.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:27 pmWhy on earth does TP insist on covering every utterance from Rove, Kristol and the rest of the failed neocon cabal? If we wanted to know what those fools said we would watch Fixed News ourselves. How about instead of this endless coverage of them you instead start covering important things like infrastructure failures, loss of Americans in Iraqnam, where Osama bin Forgotten is hiding, how the Department of Homeland Surveillance continues to intrude on our rights. Stuff that really matters TP. Not this continuous crap that really makes no difference any longer.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:28 pmWhere is the coverage of KKKarl Rove threatening his IT guru, who was testifying on the election fraud and the lost emails, dying in a plane crash last Friday evening after the media shut down for the weekend? Why are we allowing this worthless little turd have a soapbox instead of prying into his crimes to get his pudgy ass behind bars? KKKarl Rove is as bad as most of the criminals who are behind bars.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:28 pmIt doesn’t make any sense to Rove because at the moment all
December 24th, 2008 at 2:29 pmhis money stealing friends are tied up in Iraq. As soon as he’s able to arrange for the same type of state-side graft
he’ll be the new champion of infra-structure development
Unless some of the shit circling around the fan comes off and sticks, and he goes to jail, Rove IS the ‘unofficial’ minister of information in the shadow government the Right is setting up.
He hasn’t lost any power inside his outfit, he’s just moved his office.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:37 pmWhat was that old oil filter commercial about getting an oil change?
“You can pay my now… or you can pay me later.” Meaning that you can take care of the small stuff and get that oil change ( or in this case, improve/repair the infrastructure) or you can pay the mechanic later after you need a new transmission for the car (or in this case have a humongous water main break that risks people’s lives).
Private enterprise care nothing for humanity. Only profit. Never forget that.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:38 pmKKKarl should be in prison comforting a whole cell block of rapists for the holidays. What’s wrong with America that we can let this puke get away with just saying no to subpoenas and refusing to testify? What’s wrong with Americans that still support this fat maggot?
December 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pmI’m seriously hoping that Fitzgerald has the evidence he needs to indict both Rove and Cheney in the Plame outing, but is waiting until Bush is out of office and cannot pardon either or both of them.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pmI could not stand to hear the entire clip…
Why isn’t this b@stard = rove arrested? Doesn’t this prove the unfairness of our so called justice system? We have 5% of the worlds population and yet 25% of those in prison are here in the US. Not rove…. not Bush and the neocons that have committed the most horrific crimes ever…. but the ones using pot for medicinal reasons…..
And rove and the other bush crime family killers do not care about our infrastructure as they have made out like bandits while our treasury runs dry and can step out of the mess when the going gets too rough.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pmWhat’s wrong is that, as a national characteristic, “we” apotheosize the ‘highwayman,’ the daring scoundrel, the bandit.
A lot of folks, I’ll wager, see Rove as “getting even’ with the Left, for example, or with “Knee-grows” or “Meskins,” in their name, their place…
December 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWhen the next highway bridge collapses, may Karl Rove be thrown violently into the drink below. May his windows be up with an inch of air space to allow the muddy waters to fill up his car and his useless body. That Dubya sure could pick them! George W Bush will never have a friend or associate who is smarter than himself!
December 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pmI’m seriously hoping that Fitzgerald has the evidence he needs to indict both Rove and Cheney in the Plame outing, but is waiting until Bush is out of office and cannot pardon either or both of them.
I think that’s why Cheney has been admitting to his deeds (though he still hasn’t shown anybody the list attendees at that energy strategy meeting): to make it possible to issue him a generic “blanket pardon.”
December 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pmHow about spending some money to incarcerate traitors like Rove and other white collars? The criminal class that has run this country into the ground since Reagan need to pay.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm” For example, look, I’m in favor of infrastructure spending, but let’s be honest about it. It’s not stimulative.”
This is the exact opposite of what all economists everywhere are saying. It’s like saying “Look, I’m in favor of medicine, but let’s be honest about it. It’s not curative.”
Besides – what? If you don’t believe it’s stimulative, then why would you be in favor of it? Is Karl saying he’s in favor of government spending that serves no purpose? Even I’m not that liberal.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm#26 stewarjt Says:
TP, why are you obsessed with him? Move on. Get it?
The entire bush crime family killers would like US to move on… but the healing process has to take place and the only way this will happen is if justice prevails.
Doesn’t it bother you to see these known criminals still allowed to speak in the corporate media… still allowed to be free?
December 24th, 2008 at 3:07 pmRove should be put in a locked room with all of the Minnesota bridge collapse survivors and the families of the dead for a few hours. Then send the janitors in the mop up the stain he leaves behind when they are done with him. Just saying…
December 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pmBeing just an expert in mailings and voter repression hardly qualifies Rove to comment on the economy no more than Joe the plumber, no less, but no more. Fox is bogus.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:11 pmYes Karl this is totally crazy!
It makes far more sense to continue giving billions of tax dollars to the super rich and expecting the lives of the middle class to get better.
The super rich have lost trillions of dollars in vapor derivatives betting on what goes up will never come down, in fact it will only go up faster! I think 99% of my neighbors would manage their money more wisely. Even if they don’t, they’ll be enriching the local liquor store owner, car dealerships, and strippers. Most of these folks will be spending their money at my local mall and helping add to my city’s tax base.
Karl, find a national park you haven’t yet help destroy, climb to the highest mountain, and take a leap.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:14 pmYour husband is waiting Karl. Cell block “B”.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:18 pmPie-in-the-sky criticism, from Karl the Iraq invasion will pay for itself Rove?
Make mine blueberry.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pmShouldn’t Ned Beatty have some sort of theft of intellectual property rights case going against this squeling pig?
December 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pmIt’s not stimulative? It doesn’t make any economic sense? From his economic point of view, that’s true. How can capitalists get rich on infrastructure? Stimulative = trickling down, yes? Someday we might look back on this and laugh at it as slavish, old-school economic garbage.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:30 pm#50, No, it bothers me beyond belief that TP treats that pig’s every utterance as newsworthy. As someone wrote above, he knows nothing about anything important to me, except his crimes. If TP wants to obsess about his crimes and act to bring him to justice, I’m all in. Is TP’s coverage of his every talking point, however inane, really furthering anyone’s agenda?
December 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pmUnder Rove we destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq to the stone ages – implying that infrastructure is bad (or as we were trying to destroy them, does that say that Rove says infrastructure is important ?)
But then we offered massive no-bid contracts to rebuild their infrastructure – so Infrastructure is good and we should spend a lot on Iraqi infrastructure (but shouldn’t spend it on US infrastructure ?)
But the no-bid, no-oversight contracts failed – so infrastructure is bad ?
I’m dizzy from spinning around.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:36 pmDon’t people recognize Rove’s favorite tactic by now? attack your opponent’s strength!! Rove will try to question his target’s strengths, he’ll squawk about the fears, uncertainties, doubts.
So whenever Rove’s attacking something, you can be comforted in knowing he’s basically admitting that that’s a strength.
Case in point: if Karl Rove were to attack himself, these would be his talking points:
- Rove since he’s left Bush has shown signs of disloyalty; Texans are probably outraged at his stabbing his former boss on the back;
- Rove has lost his killer instinct, he’s now too namby-pamby and probably put on extra padding over his newly-worn kid gloves.
See the pattern? See his strategy. And that’s what Rove’s doing to Obama and Biden now: Obama’s infrastructure project is a good idea, it will succeed, it is popular–so attack it.
Biden will restrain executive power–so say he’s prone to abuse it.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pmOT
I had a power outage for 2 days, have broken trees and am not as ready as I would like to be for Christmas.
So be it and no big deal.
What I am outraged about is the fact during this power outage I learned it does no good to have a battery powered radio for info as:
This storm in the Pacific NW was the worst in 40 years… I wonder how bad does it have to get before corporate media will allow the locals to take over and give needed info.
And if a disaster hits is it to the benefit of the corporate powers that be to keep the public uninformed? I am beginning to wonder.
December 24th, 2008 at 3:42 pm61:
December 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pmSome folks in my region have gone almost two weeks now. I have no idea what is on local radio though as I don’t listen.
“wisdom of private individuals in the market”
December 24th, 2008 at 3:58 pmWe are now being RAINED down upon by the trickle-down economic stupidty started at Heir raygun. The lunacy of the right is over.
People understand that:
“United we stand, divided we fall
And if our back should ever be against the wall
We’ll be together, together, you and I”
Six feet of dirt is what is needed to shut that fat lying traitor up.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pmDoes Rove fly in small planes? I’m hoping.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:02 pmThink Progress – please stop publicizing the rants and raves of Karl Rove. They don’t deserve a minute of our attention.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
Anyone want to bet he’ll get his own program or radio show next year?
He already has one on Fixed News. Time magazine has also given him a column. We can choose not to read Time or watch Fixed News. I’m about ready to stop reading Think Progress since they seem so obsessed with publicizing the latest rant of Rove’s.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:17 pmRove should simply ask MN Gov Tim Pawlenty about the” triviality” of infrastructure spending. That bridge that fell into the Mississippi in Minneapolis in 2007 ended his GOP hopes for higher office forever.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pmYeah, to Rove it’s more fun to destroy a country or economy than to build one.
December 24th, 2008 at 5:14 pmTo JB @ 65 – He needs a wide-body, super-powerful plane, provided by others of course, to propel his fat ass around the world.
December 24th, 2008 at 5:16 pmWe have tried Rove’s cutting corporate tax idea and it failed. Why is anyone even talking to this guy? He has been an abject failure since 2006. Unless Rove wants to talk about how he betrayed the United States by disclosing the identity of a covert CIA agent, he should just keep his stupid trap shut. Rove is yesterday and regressive. America is looking forward to tomorrow which leaves Rove and his kind behind.
December 24th, 2008 at 5:26 pmIf Rove could jump up and eat that pie in the sky, he would do it. You betcha.
December 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pmWell, this is the point to where we hairless, walking-upright chimps have evolved. “Are the Demmycrats fer it? Then I’m agin it!” Literally, Bush did everything the opposite of what Clinton did or would have done, and now Obama is going to do the opposite of what Bush did or would’ve have done.
December 24th, 2008 at 5:35 pmLet’s take this traitor off TV and put him in jail where he belongs! As long as America puts criminals on TV, rather then in jail; America will remain a corrupt nation.
December 24th, 2008 at 6:22 pmSpending money on infrastructure doesn’t make sense to Karl Rove? Huh. Not surprised. People having jobs in this country to spend on goods & services is something Rove despises. Spit.
December 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pmHow can Maryland not have the money? They have some of the highest taxes in the country.
December 24th, 2008 at 7:18 pmI’d watch him hang, if that was on TV.
December 24th, 2008 at 7:49 pmThis is how sick the little turd Rove and the greedy, conniving GOP is…
Turd Blossom Rove,”For example, look, I’m in favor of infrastructure spending, but let’s be honest about it. It’s not stimulative.”
What’s stimulative, what really gets Rove’s greasy mind drooling (besides 14 year old boys in women’s panties) is a higher and higher profit margin $$$ by outsourcing all our jobs and money.
December 24th, 2008 at 7:53 pmGreed is what gets Rove and the Neo-cons off…
I’m going to add my voice to many above – please, could we commit to making 2009 a Rove Free Zone? I personally, don’t give a damn what he thinks … about anything … other than to perhaps know to believe the opposite. But I’m willing to forgo that pleasure for the even greater pleasure of not seeing his face or reading anything he has to say. Go to the corner Turdblossom for an extended “time out.”
December 24th, 2008 at 7:54 pmCould planet Earth please be a Rove Free Zone?
December 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pmKarl needs to go far away, for ever….and take his believers with him…
December 24th, 2008 at 9:01 pmSeriously…who listens to this stroke victim?
It’s over Karl….you’re just too sad to watch or listen to anymore…
Palin gives the troggs something to fantasize about at least….
you just need to be scraped off the country’s shoe……
Can goofess, doofess, unless turd be more wrong more times?
hello, turd. Is anybody home?
Throwing our money to yours and chimpy’s buddies don’t hold the US together. And ignoring obvious common oversight and necessary accountability doesn’t work. Hell-f9ck-o!
These are common control practices to ensure proper procedures are followed. It also improves the control of the cash flow among other things. These are good skills and are practice by businesses from the beginning of time.
The only way capitalism will works is to “WORK” for the money. Something you know nothing about, turd blossom-out-your-ass-hole.
turd you need to give it a rest you silly old bastsid.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pmPerhaps Rove will soon have an opportunity to share prison space with some of the financial criminals who helped get us into our current mess. They can wile away those endless hours in the license-plate manufacturing unit by discussing the nuances of economic theory.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pmAnother Joe Says:
When posting about kkkarl rove, we must acknowledge that the only reason he is able to be a pundit on TV, “catapulting the propaganda” is because the DEMS gave him a “free-pass” and a “get out of jail free” card.
They issues a subpoena, he thumbed his nose, they refused to enforce – end of story. This is actually the dems fault.
Not some want to say, “geeee, kkkarl is saying all these bad things.”
kkkarl will always say bad things – that is not the problem. The problem is that the DEMS are who has enabled it to continue.
How can you get a footing when repugs don’t follow the rules or laws? Take force? What if the opposing side has forces also? Then what?
It’s the congress’ fault not the dems fault alone.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:28 pmCan somebody out turd?
December 24th, 2008 at 9:34 pmI would like to say Rove deserves a pie in the face, but that would be a waste of good food that could help feed some people who really need it, unlike Porky Turdblossom.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:36 amBut goofy, pie-in-the-sky invasions and wars are just fine for KKKarl.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:27 amWhat a tool.
Why does this idiot still have a media forum?
Goofy best describes the series of policies the Bush administration put in place that now runs the risk of causing a new Great Depression. And Rove was a key player in that goofy scheme so he is a fine one to be criticizing efforts to unwind his disaster.
December 25th, 2008 at 12:19 pmeugenedebbs above i am totally like impressed…
and i’ll add we can bet assured a schizoid presence when rove uses a free market like argument to debunk the free market. forgive me if i am just economically moronic but don’t rich guys get off on giving their private opinions to the government? isn’t that the point of the millions they give to our political races? truly schizoid at least.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pmignoring rove and his fellow minion is like a homeopathis bomb. deny him a right to speak, tell people to ignore while at the same time he just keeps putting out what some consider to be toxic meme structures. they lead to a downward spin for the country. hidden but not contested and disproved.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pm*homeopathis=homeopathic
December 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pmthis really gets me worked up every time i read rove’s words. one day on oprah she had michael moore, a “liberalish” professor, some other guy, and a woman rep from the insurance industry (she was very nice and sweet).
at a certain point in their discussion she used the idea that the approach they call socialist or left wing is a utopia idea. nobody called her on it and asked “isn’t the free market a utopia idea?” aren’t the economic theories favored by wealthy elite all striving towards a perfect system with no taxes and regulation? rove and this sweet rep on oprah both make their trade pushing the needed propaganda and public outreach to sustain our current economic power structure. how’s christmas fellow citizen?
December 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pmThat’s amazing. Karl Rove opened his mouth and stupid ideas came out. Whether or not he believes his own lies is quite another matter, but it certainly shouldn’t concern anyone of real intelligence.
December 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pmHasn’t roveroolala been banned from all media access?
December 25th, 2008 at 10:17 pmWhen it appears the cred level goes to zero immediately. After 30 seconds of its drool they zero-out any future cred.
Since when do media allow exposure to failure?
Oh, maybe the media is owned by its boss.
Maybe Karl Rove and the Republicans have something else in mind. Here’s an excerpt from a Reuters article, August 3, 2008, “Wall St. to privatize U.S. Infrastructure”:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9736
December 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think it would be a big mistake to allow the same folks, like Goldman Sacks-USA, who are responsible for the current economic crisis to start buying up and controlling U.S. infrastructure. This is another step toward transferring control of U.S. assets into private hands. And where will companies like Goldman Sacks-USA get the money to do this? U.S. taxpayers? TARP? I have tried to bring this issue up with my political reps, so far, none have stated where they stand on the issue of whether or not to privatize U.S. infrastructure.
Shut up, shut up, shut up, you fat excuse for a pig.
December 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pmWhat really gets me about this fat fork is that some of my friends who I consider to be reasonable republicans actually think this guy is brilliant. I guess I have to redefine either reasonable or brilliant.
December 27th, 2008 at 6:29 pm