Stepping Up To The Plate

I haven't been much of a fan of George Stephanopolous and his "This Week" show, but today he was in rare form. First he grilled Larry Summers about the cuts in the "compromise" bill soon to be passed by the Senate. The best part was when George grilled Summers over Paul Krugman's article in today's New York Times that criticized the cuts as dropping 600,000 jobs from the stimulus plan. It was amazing watching Summers do his damnest to not side with explicitly agree with Krugman........while implicitly agreeing with Krugman. I know some have questioned if Krugman has done more to help or hurt the cause on the American Recovery and Reinivestment Act because of his constant criticism that it wasn't big enough. I hope that exchange helps to answer that question for good that he has been a much bigger help than hurt.

Then Big George methodically and tactically smacked around Michael "Step N Fetchit" Steele but good over his ridiculous assertation that government doesn't create jobs. On a side note, does this fool not realize that by saying construction jobs and government jobs aren't real jobs he is alienating the blue collar base of this country which historically votes reliably Republican? Yeah, this might be the shortest tenure in RNC chairmanship history.

By some quirk ABC News doesn't provide an embed code for their videos so I had to link them. But if they come up on youtube I will throw them up later.


Update: As promised here is your new RNC Leader Michael Steele making a total ass out of himself.