An Accurate Assessment Of The GOP By Former President Clinton

In Former President Bill Clinton's interview with CNN, he cut right to the chase in explaining the current situation:

I find it amazing that the Republicans who doubled the debt of the country in eight years and produced no new jobs doing it, gave us an economic record that was totally bereft of any productive result are now criticizing him [President Obama] for spending money.

The only people who actually prospered the past eight years were the fat cats. At the same time, the working American actually lost wealth due to wage stagnation combined with inflation. But as Clinton points out, President Bush and the Repbulicans in Congress spent money like crazy.

Now - with an economic disaster second only (for now, at least) to the Great Depression - Republicans are wanting to be budget hawks.

But again Clinton nails it:

For example, there's 100 economic studies which show that you get a better return in terms of economic growth on extending unemployment benefits or investing money in energy conservation jobs to improve buildings than you do giving people in my income group a tax cut. But it doesn't stop them. Those guys are on automatic. You punch a button and they give the answer they give you.

Yes, pre-programmed brains in a rut: GOP leadership.