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A nifty little book if you want proof that the Republicans have been talking up the economy since Reagan while running it into ruin.

For the GOP, the economy is always going well because they make money by selling short or with hedge funds or default swaps, while the rest of us watch our savings sink below sea level.

Oleske, the lawyer-political operative author, based his book on the model classic "Oh Yeah?" written in 1931 to ensure that people wouldn't forget that Republican regulatory laxness and false optimism on the economy led to the great depression.

We talked with Oleske this afternoon, and he said that he wanted people to have a record of statement by Republicans that reassured Americans about the economy as the GOP and its wealthy contributors drove it off the cliff.

This is a great book to have to quote to right wing blowhard relatives, to use for call-in radio programs, and to have at your disposal for writing letters to the editor.

Oleske is particularly hopeful that progressives will use it to fight back against the Republicans as they blame Obama and the Democrats for the financial disaster that the GOP recklesly left us with. Because remember that once Obama is elected, he is still going to have to deal with the dishonest and deceiving Republican Party.

Taken as a whole, these rosy economic statements in the face of a deterioriating economic and Wall Street infrastructure, are a solid indictment of the party symbolized by the elephant.

We are all left to clean up the dung, but these quotations - divided into sections - ensure that everyone will know who to blame.

From the Publisher:

Yeah, Right is the definitive collection of short-sighted and out-of-touch claims made by the head cheerleaders for the Bush economy. It delivers a powerful indictment of leading Republican politicians and their corporate supporters, using nothing more than their own words and the striking juxtaposition of those words with the grim facts facing most Americans today.

Throughout Yeah, Right, Republican rhetoric about "record homeownership," "rising wages," "steady job growth" and "fiscal discipline" is seamlessly interwoven with contemporaneous news reports and economic charts revealing the actual reality of the past eight years--record foreclosures, falling incomes, slow job growth, rising inequality and unprecedented debt.

The first step to changing our economic course is reaching the same national consensus we did in the 1930s--that Republican trickle-down economics is, quite simply, a joke. Yeah, Right thoroughly exposes that cruel joke, and it is an indispensable resource for every American who is concerned about our economy.



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