Bad Numbers For The Party Of No

Research 2000's latest polling has some pretty bad news for the Rethugs (cue the sound of champagne corks popping). The Rethug Party only has a 25 percent positive rating, vs. 49 percent for the Democratic Party. President Obama has a 67 percent favorable rating, compared to Congressional Rethug "leaders" Sen. Mitch "Missy" McConnell (22 ) and Rep. John "Boner" Boehner (16). You can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Yet, as we noted in yesterday's posting, the Beltway media continues to treat the Rethugs as having "serious" ideas that are worth discussing and even enacting. The American public is saying "no sale" and the Rethugs are still rehashing their familiar, failed bromides -- tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, cut or eliminate Medicare and Medicaid, privatize Social Security, and give money to the Pentagon that they haven't even asked for.

Even worse news for the Party of No, the House and Senate have passed President's Obama's FY 2010 budget by solid margins -- with no Rethuglican votes.

April Fools

The Rethuglican Congressional "leadership" is expected to unveil their alternative budget today, appropriately on. . . April Fools' Day. It's believed that, this time, there might actually be some numbers in the document, unlike last week's idiotic roll-out of a "blueprint" which contained little more than Rethug talking points and inane balloon charts, and which was met with almost universal derision. It's also believed that the document won't discuss out year deficits, because the Rethugs won't be able to explain how cutting the tax rate of the wealthiest Americans from 36 to 25 percent is going to plug that hole.

UPDATE: Wonkette has an update that's even worse that we thought: deep cuts in Medicare and Medicaid and programs for the poor and elderly, halt the stimulus funding, and freeze domestic spending for 5 years, while cutting corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, and eliminating the capital gains tax for a year. Bingo! They've solidified their economic elitist base of 3% of the population!

Budget Wizards

Well, the Rethuglican "leaders" on Capitol Hill took President Obama's challenge seriously, and came up with their own, er, budget, er, blueprint. Except, it didn't have any budget numbers. Well done, Rethugs! And please ignore the almost universal mockery that your "blueprint" is receiving, from right to left. It's easy to mock; it's hard to develop fuzzy balloon diagrams that say absolutely nothing.

We didn't see a proposal for spray-tan subsidies, so we assume Rethug Minority Leader John "Boner" Boehner was out of the loop on that essential item.