In Which Zandar Answers Your Burning Questions

Josh Marshall asks:

There's often a lot of game-playing in getting appointees approved by the senate. But this requires more attention. The senate Republicans are refusing to give a vote to two of President Obama's key (hopefully soon to be) economic advisors -- Austan Goolsbee and Cecilia Rouse. So for the moment they're barred from advising the president at all. The Republicans seem pretty candid about the fact that this is pay back for stuff that happened back in the Bush era. But aren't we in the throes of a catastrophic economic crisis?

Why yes Josh, we are.

And if you think that actually matters to the GOP at all other than "How can we use this to regain political power?" then I have a nice beach house in Kansas to sell you. Remember, these are the same folks that think Obama's destroying the economy on purpose to force a permanent socialist/fascist state, and to them the economy's only been in trouble since November 5th, 2008.