{"id":230641,"date":"2010-01-26T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63587"},"modified":"2010-01-26T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:56:57","slug":"early-morning-swim-special-mind-numblingy-stupid-spending-freeze-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230641","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Special Mind-Numblingy Stupid Spending Freeze Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63588\" title=\"Obama_Hoover\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/01\/Obama_Hoover-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Obama_Hoover\" width=\"237\" height=\"246\" \/>The reviews are in and President <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Hoover<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">McCain<\/span> Obama&#8217;s hope and changey spending freeze has not been well received.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/diary\/17112\/its-official-obama-is-an-idiot\">OpenLeft<\/a>: &#8220;This is Bush-style idiocy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2010\/01\/obama-to-propose-spending-freeze-in.html\">Americablog<\/a>: &#8220;I guess Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson will think it&#8217;s a good idea.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/01\/white-houses-brain-freeze.html\">538<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;on par with John McCain&#8217;s &#8220;suspending my campaign&#8221; gaffe.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2010\/1\/25\/830209\/-Unimaginable-stupidity\">Orange Satan<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;unalloyed idiocy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mydd.com\/2010\/1\/25\/barack-herbert-hoover-obama\">MyDD<\/a>: &#8220;Barack Obama may as well hold up a big sign that says, &#8220;I want Democrats to lose Congress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/01\/giving-up.html\">Atrios<\/a>: &#8220;We are ruled by idiots.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2010\/01\/barack-herbert-hoover-obama.html\">DeLong<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;a perfect example of the fundamental unseriousness of Barack Obama and his administration.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/all-things-to-all-people-by-digby-its.html\">Digby<\/a>: &#8220;We are all neo-Hooverists now.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/01\/obama-budget-to-call-for-freeze-in-non-security-discretionary-spending.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Yglesias<\/a>: &#8220;I suspect this initiative was deliberately leaked to progressive bloggers in an effort to get denounced by the left and I don\u2019t want to give them the satisfaction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I know their favorite game over at 1600 Pennsylvania is &#8220;Let&#8217;s Screw the DFHs.&#8221; But now they&#8217;re playing &#8220;Let&#8217;s Screw the Country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heckuva job, Barry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63587&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_63587\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reviews are in and President Hoover McCain Obama&#8217;s hope and changey spending freeze has not been well received. 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