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Re: Brooks on the debt ceiling

By: weco in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 06 Jul 11 10:43 AM | 24 view(s)
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For most of my 65+ years very rich and powerful right wingers have spent billions villifying liberals. They even created their own major television network dedicated solely to that task. The crazies who used to fund the John Birch society succeeded beyond their wildest dreams at least with the mouth breathers who seem to make up a larger portion of the electorate than we ever realized.

The problem for the mouth breathers is that when the billionaires talk about "big government", they mean Social Security and Medicare, two programs the mouth breathers actually love and need. We'll see how long there is support for government shut down when the SS check stops coming. In an Orwellian world that will be blamed on Obama, too.


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Brooks on the debt ceiling
By: weco in FFFT
Wed, 06 Jul 11 10:41 AM 		Msg. 30449 of 65535


T]he Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative.

The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms. If you ask them to raise taxes by an inch in order to cut government by a foot, they will say no. If you ask them to raise taxes by an inch to cut government by a yard, they will still say no.

The members of this movement do not accept the legitimacy of scholars and intellectual authorities. A thousand impartial experts may tell them that a default on the debt would have calamitous effects, far worse than raising tax revenues a bit. But the members of this movement refuse to believe it.

The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency....

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/opinion/05brooks.html


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