Total Lunacy

It's pretty well known that the Republican party doesn't believe in history. Normally, their attempts to rewrite history are so silly that they aren't even worth writing about. But this moves beyond silly, and into batshit insane territory.

I give you Mitch McConnell...

“But one of the good things about reading history is you learn a good deal. And,
we know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work. In
1940, unemployment was still 15%. And, it’s widely agreed among economists, that
what got us out of the doldrums that we were in during the Depression was the
beginning of World War II.”

Now, Mitch McConnell is correct when he says unemployment was at 15% in 1940. What he fails to mention is that unemployment in 1933 (when the new deal was put into motion) was a whopping 25%. I can gauran-freakin-tee you that you would have a hard time finding another President that lowered unemployment by 10%. I'd say Roosevelt was probably doing something right.

But the funniest part of Mitchy's claim is when he says that big government spending didn't get us out of the depression, but WWII did. Uh, what exactly was WWII but a massive government spending program? It would seem to me that, if anything, WWII proved that the New Deal didn't contain enough government spending!

This is just another reason why Obama never should even bother trying to work with the majority of congressional Republicans. Compromise, and bipartisanship is a worthwhile goal when the other side brings good ideas to the table.

But you have nothing to gain by trying to work with people who are certifiably nuts.