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" There&amp;#039;s a new jobs report due out today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and, if it turns out well, well, you know what that means.   At least. Which reminds me. This story in the Times got overlooked, but it seems that the Republicans in the Senate have the same problem with numbers and with math that they have with science in general \u2014 namely, that numbers and math were invented by Democrats, probably in Nate Silver&amp;#039;s Carpathian la-BOR-a-tory, in order to help Republicans look foolish. In short, the resolutely non-partisan Congressional Research Service issued a report saying, essentially, that almost 35 years of Republican economic policy was sheer lunatic moonshine. &amp;quot;The reduction in the top tax rates appears to be uncorrelated with saving, investment and productivity growth. The top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie,&amp;quot; the report said. &amp;quot;However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution.&amp;quot; And, from above, John Maynard Keynes hocks a loogie down at planet Earth. Led by Mitch McConnell, whose presence in a position of influence is an embarrassment to every democracy back to Pericles, the Republicans were quick to counter the CRS&amp;#039;s findings. By killing the report. Dead. And for reasons that range from hilariously pathetic to pathetically hilarious. Republicans did not say whether they had asked the research service, a nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress, to take the report out of circulation, but they were clear that they protested its tone and findings. Don Stewart, a spokesman for the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Mr. McConnell and other senators &amp;quot;raised concerns about the methodology and other flaws.&amp;quot; Mr. Stewart added that people outside of Congress (Translation From The Original Weaselspeak: &amp;quot;Grover had a shit fit.&amp;quot;) had also criticized the study and that officials at the research service &amp;quot;decided, on their own, to pull the study pending further review.&amp;quot; Senate Republican aides said they had protested both the tone of the report and its findings. Aides to Mr. McConnell presented a bill of particulars to the research service that included objections to the use of the term &amp;quot;Bush tax cuts&amp;quot; and the report&amp;#039;s reference to &amp;quot;tax cuts for the rich,&amp;quot; which Republicans contended was politically freighted. So, yeah, I can hardly wait for those new jobs numbers. I haven&amp;#039;t seen a good clown show since Soupy Sales hung &amp;#039;em up. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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