First Approximation Mentat Stuff

Given the following data:

1) The GOP talking point that Obama and the Democrats are responsible for a majority of the $12 trillion in national debt,

Hensarling: You are soon to submit a new budget, Mr. President. Will that new budget, like your old budget, triple the national debt and continue to take us down the path of increasing the cost of government to almost 25 percent of our economy? That’s the question, Mr. President.

2) The Village talking point that the national debt is now the single greatest threat to our national security,

First of all the budget ... and these deficits.. Deficits, red ink as far as the eye can see! Even if you can achieve your very optimistic goal,s and that is to bring down some of these deficits by 2015, they go back up again by 2019 and 2020! beyond the level that is considered sustainable. Larry Summers, long before he was in the Obama White House has said,"how long can the world's greatest borrower remain the world's greatest power?"

Have we reached a point where our deficits have become a national security issue?

3) The Kroog pointing out the Obama administration's projections on unemployment in 2011 will still be 9% or more:

So what’s the response to this dismal, family-destroying prospect? A brief, small additional stimulus, followed by a spending freeze. In essence, the administration is accepting mass unemployment as just one of those things we have to live with.

Now, we all know that this mainly reflects political constraints; this isn’t an Obama-bashing post. But think about how sick our political system is, if this is the best we can do. Nobody — not the Fed, not the administration, not Congress, is willing to do anything to create jobs despite dire projections.

4) And this Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll on Republicans:

"Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?" Yes 39%, No 32%, Not Sure 29%.

...my inner Thufir Hawat is telling me that 18 months from now is going to be looking a lot like October '98- March '99.

Just sayin'.