gene, it is great to see you, my wise friend. rachel, great to be here. steve bennett at washington ç monthly, who is wise himself, today said this report on the republican budget should be the lead story in every news outlet in the country. do you think this is a really big deal? i think it s a huge deal for a couple of reasons, rachel. number one, it shows how economically insane the republican the house budget plan is, to take two points off the top of economic growth at a time when we re trying to struggle out of the deepest recession since the great depression, is insanity. any economist will tell you it s insanity. so now we have goldman sachs, which cannot be accused of being some sort of front for international communism. or socialism or kenyan anti-colonialism. saying the same thing, that this is crazy. number two, you know, maybe this is the point of the house budget plan.
they join mitch daniels, michigan governor rick snider, florida governor rick scott, and pennsylvania governor tom corbett in shying from that battle. walker sees himself as a leader. the national republican party clearly is tryingç to make him into a national republican leader here. but are you still leading if there s nobody behind you? not only is this fight not catching on nationwide, but the strategy in the state of wisconsin is failing. when the governor got pranked with that fake phone call, he gave away the strategy he was going to use to try to trick state democrats into coming back into the state so that they could get a quorum to pass his union-stripping bill. he gave away the trick. he told it to a guy he thought was a big donor, and now the democrats know what that strategy is, so they will not be tricked. the senate republicans in wisconsin also had a plan to all but force the democrats to come back to the state. they were going to bring up a voter i.d. bill, a bill th
steve bennett at washington monthly, who is wise himself, today said this report on the republican budget should be the lead story in every news outlet in the country. do you think this is a really big deal? i think it s a huge deal for a couple of reasons, rachel. number one, it shows how economically insane the republican the house budget plan is, to take two points off the top of economic growth at a time when we re trying to struggle out of the deepest recession since the great depression, is insanity. any economist will tell you it s insanity. so now we have goldman sachs, which cannot be accused of being some sort of front for international communism. or socialism or kenyan anti-colonialism. saying the same thing, that this is crazy. number two, you know, maybe this is the point of the house budget plan. maybe the point of the plan is to depress economic growth to % set up the republican party for
post and an msnbc contributor. gene, it is great to see you, my wise friend. rachel, great to be here. steve bennett at washington monthly, who is wise himself, today said this report on the republican budget should be the lead story in every news outlet in the country. do you think this is a really big deal? i think it s a huge deal for a couple of reasons, rachel. number one, it shows how economically insane the republican the house budget plan is, to take two points off the top of economic growth at a time when we re trying to struggle out of the deepest recession since the great depression, is insanity. any economist will tell you it s insanity. so now we have goldman sachs, which cannot be accused of being some sort of front for international communism. or socialism or kenyan anti-coloniali anti-colonialism. saying the same thing, that this is crazy. number two, you know, maybe this is the point of the house budget
the latest to balk. daniels, snider and corbett in shying from that battle. walker sees himself as a leader. the party is trying to make him into a national republican leader here. but are you still leading if there s nobody behind you? not only is this fight not catcng on nationwide, but the strategy in wisconsin is failing. when the governor got punk d with that prank phone call, he gave away the strategy he was going to try to use to trick senate democrats so they could get a quorum to pass his union-stripping bill. he gave away the trick. he told it to the guy he thought was a big donor. and now the depths know what that strategy is so they will not be tricked. the senate republicans in wisconsin also had a plan to all but force the democrats to come back to the state. they were going to bring up a voter i.d. bill. it would hurt democrats chances not only in the next election but every election to come.