In this national nightmare, it’s hard to tell if all the voices we hear are real or the products of overheated imaginations.
Was that the new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele saying that the Obama stimulus plan was “laughable” and that the economic mess is only “about 18 months old. The reality of it is, Bush inherited a recession. He got us through that recession”?
Could that have been Ron Paul, back from the media dead, grousing about three Senate Republicans who “caved in and went with the Democrats”?
In a ghostly YouTube video, Paul is his old cranky self about both parties: “It’s like they’re born-again budget conservatives. Where were we in the past eight years, when we could have done something…So we can’t blame the Democrats for the conditions we have. We have to blame both parties and presidents of the last several decades to have generated this huge government.”
Paul wants the economy stimulated privately. “We need a lot more spending,” he says with his usual grip on reality, “but it has to be done by market forces, by individuals, by businesses making proper decisions.”
And off in the distance, another Texas Republican is crowing about terrorist tactics on the stimulus bill.