{"id":7679,"date":"2010-02-02T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2010-02-03T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:30:31","slug":"the-obamademocratic-stimulus-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=7679","title":{"rendered":"The Obama\/Democratic Stimulus Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s up to the wingnuts. If they want to keep lying about Obama, then we’ll do our best to set the record straight. If they want to bring up legitimate<\/i> criticism, and there’s plenty of it, then we’d likely join them, and we could all<\/i> have an Obama bashing party together. But they’re not that smart.<\/p>\n

So as long as the wingnut media — and thus, virtually the entire corporate media — insist on using the people’s<\/i> airwaves to lie<\/i> to the people (eg., Rush Limbaugh continues to repeat every day what a “complete failure” the economic stimulus package has been), I guess we’ll just have to keep countering that phony message by posting the truth<\/i> in order to try<\/i> to offer some balance<\/i> to the unending stream of lies from the GOP and their extremely effective mouthpieces across the near-entirety of the corporate media.<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow did the same last week<\/a> in her lead-up piece to Obama’s first State of the Union address, in which she brutally attacked the Administration’s call for a partial spending freeze, even as the economy, thanks in no small part to Government investment, struggles to come out of its tailspin.<\/p>\n

Before her critique however (which I hope you’ll watch in full — it’s embedded below), she also pointed out the salient, indisputable facts<\/i> of how responsible actions taken by the Obama Administration, whether you liked them or not — and as opposed by virtually every<\/i> single Republican in Congress — have, in fact, with all of their many failings, helped shore up, and even reverse for now, what had been a near-death spiral by the time Obama finally took office.<\/p>\n

Here are two charts from her report which highlight that point quite simply, and help to counter the loud, GOP-spun political\/partisan nonsense echoed, naturally, by the gullible tea baggers…<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n[NOTE: Since Maddow’s report last week, the GDP figures for the 4th quarter of last year have now been announced and the up trend continues. As her original chart included data only through the 3rd quarter of last year, we’ve augmented that original chart below to reflect the recently announced 5.7% growth in GDP for the 4th quarter of ’09<\/a><\/em>]:<\/p>\n

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Love him or hate him, or anything in between, recognition of the overall effect of the broad points of Obama’s emergency economic policies — quickly passed at an historic moment of looming disaster — is due. At least along with any honest<\/i> appraisal of those policies.<\/p>\n

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Maddow’s entire report, both praising <\/i>and critiquing Obama and those policies — something known as “fairness and balance” — can be watched below…<\/i><\/p>\n

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It’s up to the wingnuts. If they want to keep lying about Obama, then we’ll do our best to set the record straight. If they want to bring up legitimate criticism, and there’s plenty of it, then we’d likely join them, and we could all have an Obama bashing party together. But they’re not that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-rachel-maddow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}