Banana republic, here we come

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Apparently, it's 1994 redux as the Republicans have unveiled a "Pledge to America" that is just so much apple sauce. Jon Stewart did his usual masterful job in skewering it

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and Krugman's column on Thursday was devoted to the GOP's nonsense. The money passage:

The document repeatedly condemns federal debt — 16 times, by my count. But the main substantive policy proposal is to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, which independent estimates say would add about $3.7 trillion to the debt over the next decade — about $700 billion more than the Obama administration’s tax proposals.

The morons continue to try to have it both ways, and the morons who support them will continue to buy this idiocy.