The GOP fear machine is running full blast on Fox, beaming hystrionics onto the airwaves at an astounding clip. Jon Stewart has an amusing take on it (I had trouble imbedding the video frame, you’ll just have to click on the link).
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=216561&title=fox-news-fear-imbalance
We’re all doooommmed!
Lamentations on Chemistry 
I think I will trust GOP economic prognostications when they can 1) tell the truth (something they’ve been poor at for at least forty years), and 2) do basic math (note: lowering taxes and raising spending does not, amazingly enough, lead to a lower deficit). Oh, and some ability to acquire input from reality when predicting the future and designing plans is also appreciated, at least by those responsible for executing the plans.
Getting advice of government from Repubblicans is like getting marriage advice from Liz Taylor. I don’t have enough salt in my home with which to temper their words.
Hi Hap, it is funny how the GOP channel (FOX) has suddenly found the desire to criticize the Whitehouse. It’s as if the previous occupant ran a trouble free operation.
I guess it depends what your definition of trouble is – bankrupting the Federal government, abusing the Constitution, instituting laissez-faire regulatory policies, and telling the rest of the world to FOAD are probably not considered trouble in Fox’s estimation – that’s what they wanted. Their inability to correlate outcomes with actions – well that’s why they’re Fox (as the Onion put it, “asking the questions other reporters are too smart to ask”.)
Now, a black man as a President – now THAT’S a problem.
One of the people at my work copied a WSJ editorial from an Ayn Rand admirer on how “Atlas Shrugged” has gone from fiction to fact in 52 years and put it on his door. While I liked the book (even as I think it’s the conservative atheist version of the “Left Behind” series), I think I would have appreciated economic advice more from people who had experience in helping run one competently (again, the basic math thing) and who could accept input from reality (the more I read them, the more I think Libertarians generally have Creationist Syndrome – the inability to accept input from physical and economic reality unless it fits their beliefs.). You might find it amusing.