Hooverville
by digby
You know the Republican party completely devolved into a destructive anarchic force when Dick Cheney sounds like a sane person by comparison:
Administration officials have been warning for weeks that failure to pass the bill could lead to an even deeper recession.
That was the message Vice President Dick Cheney brought to a closed-door Senate GOP lunch Wednesday, reportedly warning that it’ll be “Herbert Hoover” time if aid to the industry was rejected, according to a senator familiar with the remarks. A Cheney spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the vice president’s remarks.
I think the Republicans actually want the country to go into a depression. They think that will somehow benefit them politically because they'll blame the Democrats for making things worse. It's how they roll.
Update: Andrea Mitchell asked Chris Dodd earlier whether this is becoming a war between north and south. It's an interesting question, but one not unanticipated by some of us as we observed the Republican party turn into a regional minority.
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