Bobo goes all in against Obama (h/t commenter hilts). On Obama’s immigration policy change:
We passed laws. He said there were laws. And with a stroke of a pen to ignore the laws is just — you can’t — it’s very bad idea to have a good policy imposed by bad means. And that is what he did, and very cynically, too.
On Fast and Furious:
I think it is a winner for the Republicans.
It’s funny. It hasn’t really registered with the country yet, what the government has done. When — if it gets out, wait, they were sending guns to Mexico, I think it’s such a thing that will startle people. I think it’s a clear winner for the Republicans.
Brooks is a slimy bastard, always playing the undecided centrist, especially when he knows the Republican can’t win (e.g. 2008), but always ready to stick in the shiv for his side when he things the chips are down. Atrios is right, he’s worse than Joe Scarborough:
As for the David and Joe issue specifically, I’m not a fan of either, but I think the latter is preferable to the former in the context of this particular game. Brooks is always playing for team conservative, even if he pretends otherwise, while I think Joe can genuinely be nudged by an argument occasionally. Not that I think it’s worth the focus or effort, but…
Maude
Yesterday, a Yahoo! News headline said that at the Beverly Hills Hilton, there was a murder suicide. The first thing I thought of was Brooks, Collins.
Cermet
So where did asswipe bobo write all the anti-bush the cheny puppet about torture? Wait, the asswipe didn’t and he is worried about Obama NOT deporting kids who were raised in amerika all their lives – the horror. This guy is worse than all the other asswipes on the NYT’s. I’ll never pay for that paper as long as that asswipe rub’s his shit upon those pages. A monkey throwing its own shit onto a page would have a deeper and better understanding of reality than that asswipe bobo.
rikyrah
you read that clown so I don’t have to.
Baud
More 11-D chess from Obama. He knows that the only way to move the country away from the idea of a unitary executive is for Obama to be the executive.
JCT
He’s the perfect pundit for the Romney Age of the GOP – a soulless hack brimming with mendacity and cowardice. And a schmear of self-importance.
Nasty brew.
Peter
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Fast and Furious a Bush admin policy? Shut down by the Obama admin as soon as they realized it was happening? I realize that blaming Democrats for Republican failures is the en vogue electoral technique for the last four years, but trying to make hay from this seems ballsy even by their standards.
Todd
I keep having the unsettling thought that this won’t end well – that at some point, when David Brooks is either
A). Standing against a wall, awaiting his machine-gunning death sentence handed down by a revolutionary tribunal; or
B). Fighting an 8 year old girl over a curtain-rod sparrow kebab under a crumbling overpass,
he will finally gain some insight as to what his preferences create.
WereBear
@Peter: It is the classic response of people whose flying saucer didn’t arrive; they double down.
maven
Scarborough is a douche bag. Brooks is used douche bag effluent.
Zifnab
@Baud:
Everyone is for a unitary executive when he is “your” unitary executive. And what both Bush and Obama recognize is that when Congress wants to twiddle its thumbs and do nothing, if you want your agenda to go through (be it torturing random poppy farmers in Gitmo or maybe not deporting a 6th grader back to a country he hasn’t live in since he was 2 years old) you’ve got to go over Congress’s head and dare it to oppose you.
If anything, Obama is going to reinforce the unitary executive position. On the left, Democrats are going to warm up very quickly to a benevolent dictator – particularly when their only other choice is Kim Jong Il in a business suite. On the right, Republicans have been doubling down since Nixon. They’ll happily allow for the consolidation of power in the Presidency and then roll the dice (after loading them with a few billion in Citizens United fueled campaign ads and “voter fraud” legislation) hoping they’ll have the Oval Office in the next four years.
:-p It’s lose-lose all around.
MattF
Brooks is the classic fellow-traveller. After swiping at Obama for having the gall to accomplish policy goals in spite of profound Burkean opposition, we can expect a qualified defense of Romney: “Can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
satanicpanic
How long have they been pushing Fast and Furious? What, three years now? And the lead guy is Issa… a guy whose personality just screams loan shark. Yeah, that’s going to be a winner. Idiot.
Baud
@Zifnab:
I agree with that. I wish there were a way to restore the institutional competence of Congress, but I don’t see that happening unless we can get and keep solid Democratic majorities there for at least a decade.
Over the long run, there is no way the unitary executive can withstand Democratic egos. ;)
Nicole
@Peter: On Bill Maher, the Fonzie of Freedom insisted that Bush’s program was NOT THE SAME. I mean, it was pretty much the same, but it wasn’t identical, therefore this is all OBAMA’s FAULT.
Speaking of Maher, his repeated bookings of David Brooks and Andrew Sullivan is what made me stop watching his show regularly. I only watched Friday because I figured Rachel Maddow would wipe the floor with the Fonzie of Freedom. Which she did, and Ruffalo doing the same thing made for added bonus.
David Brooks. Blech. Blech blech blech.
bemused
Reading Brooks is like being forced to live in a musty basement.
amk
Build a brand new titanic with all upper class accommodation . Give all these pundtwits/hacks/radio shockjocks/murdock a totally free ride to eewrope (these welfare queens will love it). Then have the ship meet a berg in north sea at midnight.
Worth the money. Mebbe peeps will chip in too gladly.
SiubhanDuinne
@bemused:
I want to marry this line.
smintheus
I’m not about to sully my mind by reading Brooks, but I’m willing to bet he doesn’t blame Bush for starting the gun-walking program. As for not upholding the law, when did he criticize Bush for wiretapping Americans without a warrant, which Bush bragged that he authorized?
Lord Jesus Perm
@bemused:
This is absolutely excellent.
Todd
@amk:
I was going to suggest a torpedo, just in case some of them might survive the berg.
Anyway, I like the thought. You could station satellite cameras all around and make tons on the pay-per-view rights to the chaos in staterooms, corridors and decks. I’d DVR the thing and watch it repeatedly.
Valdivia
I really have no words. He has been a hack of the highest order for ever. He was during the Bush era, has been ever since before Obama got elected, and now he is pimping himself like a cheap whore for the Republican ticket. Why do so-called liberals even bother with this guy?
LittlePig
@Todd: That and go long on popcorn futures and the thing pays for itself.
Southern Beale
This is what they do, though. This is the new tactic, their means of appealing to the “independent voter.” They’re trying to pretend they’re the reasonable centrist and it’s the LIBERALS who are the partisans. I’m seeing this more and more and am convinced this is an election strategy.
Anyone see Bill Maher Friday night? That asshole from Reason — Nick Gillespie I think his name was? Glibertarian fool, but he kept trying to pin Rachel Maddow and Maher into a partisan corner. He was the worst with Maddow, trying to frame her as a biased liberal hack. She kept saying, “You don’t know anything about me” every time he’d say something accusatory like, “YOU THINK THIS …”
It was fascinating to watch, it’s like he’d just come out of Frank Luntz Boot Camp and was trying out his new language, and Maher and Maddow were like, “Huh?” And they both fell for it a bit, trying to prove how un-biased they were by attacking Obama on some stuff (legit stuff, but still …) It’s like they’re trying to get us to attack our own party leader to prove we aren’t partisans. Fuckitall, I’m a damn partisan as long as y’all are crazy assed motherfuckers. Sue me.
And it finally got to that point. At the end Gillespie said to Maher, “Name one Republican out there today you vote for. Can’t do it, canya?! See! PARTISAN!” Like that’s a crime? And Maher finally did say, “Hell no, not as long as the Republicans are the party of crazies they are today, no way. 20 years ago it would have been different but today each and every one of them is batshit insane.”
Anyway, clearly BoBo went to the same Frank Luntz boot camp. And so have my political activist trolls who come over to my place and have been test-driving the same language. And we’ll see it from everyone else on the bobblehead shows and in columns.
Karl Rove always attacks the oppositions strength, we know this, but they also always play mirror games — they always ALWAYS accuse the left of doing the very thing they themselves have been doing for years. And right now the Left has a compelling argument that the GOP is hyperpartisan and puts party politics over all else. So they’re now going to accuse us of that.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to write a novel. Haven’t had my full complement of coffee yet today.
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@Valdivia:
Because he’s a Very Serious Person (TM) and therefore deserving of all respect and consideration, or else you are subject to complete marginalization for not being Serious.
NancyDarling
“They” are all pushing this meme. Stewart is the only place I have heard the rest of what the President said. It’s beyond sad when a comedy show is one of few places you can get the truth.
El Cid
RULE OF LAW! RULE OF LAW! RULE OF LAW!
This is a principle Republicans discover whenever there’s a Democratic President.
Last time, they were horrified that Bill Clinton may have failed to properly admit to what sort of blowjob he received.
Ruckus
@Todd:
Fighting an 8 year old girl over a curtain-rod sparrow kebab under a crumbling overpass, he will finally gain some insight as to what his preferences create.
Only if she stabs him in the balls with it.
WereBear
@Southern Beale: Don’t apologize for the novel: you are absolutely right.
I was in fact encouraged by Maher’s response: we won’t get anywhere as long as we are afraid to call the crazy, crazy.
No time like the present.
Valdivia
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:
Maybe it’s because I am under the spell of a terrible summer cold but: fuck being serious! :D
Brooks has now been so outright in his role as party hack that anyone pretending he is serious about being a Burkean Centrist must be a totebagger of the highest order or having some powerful crack. I hear his name and I want to destroy something or have a rusty pitchfork handy. And I am not a violent person.
@Southern Beale:
thank you for this because it is a wonder how they all come out with the same language and complaints at the same time. Like they all get the memo.
amk
@Southern Beale: Yeah, Maher was exceptionally good in that episode. There is not a single rethug pol now that isn’t crazy or acting crazy to appease the teatards. The Sleaze factor is nauseating.
JCT
@Ruckus:
What balls? Maybe he shares one with Romney. On a good day.
El Cid
@Southern Beale:
I’m waiting for someone like Maddow to tell Gillespie or whatever loudmouth right wing (or “libertarian”) boor on the panel to say your bit and then SHUT UP and the rest of us are under no obligation to pretend your bullshit is by default correct and we’re all here to defend ourself against YOU.
Every fucking time these hacks act like they own the fucking stage, and all the shocked and discomfited panelists let them.
Ruckus
@JCT:
Just because he’s not using them doesn’t mean he’s without. I was going for the physical concept, not the obvious one.
WereBear
@El Cid: As I said aloud at the time: How can you tell you are making a good point with a conservative? They change the subject.
burnspbesq
Under what theory is it a rational use of anyone’s time to continue paying attention to Brooks?
amk
@El Cid:
This. If they have the guts, they should just say stfu. And not engage them in any convo just so their garbage is not mainstreamed.
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@Southern Beale:
The most galling thing about Gillespie’s part in that whole panel was the continual assertion that he, and he alone, was the sole godly nonpartisan of the group, all the while echoing bullshit firmly entrenched in the tea party segment of the right-wing. It’s such an absurd trick, and yet, as ’10 taught is, it FUCKING WORKS. God knows how many people I’ve seen that have acted like the Dems were the super extra most gallingly partisan pieces of shit in the history of ever, simply because the right and the right alone are allowed to dictate what the ‘center’ is, what ‘nonpartisan’ is. And just how many fucking wingnuts are allowed to get away with the mantle of ‘nonpartisan’ while being more extreme than anything else.
GregB
It’s funny how concerned the Republicans have become over the death of one single law enforcement official when they spent 8 years pooh-pooing the growing death count in Iraq.
Suddenly they seem to be very concerned about holding the government accountable for an unnecessary death.
Oh yeah, fuck David Brooks and his salad bar.
PeakVT
OT: Morsi declared winner in Egypt. It might not matter all that much, though, because of the actions of the Supreme Military Council over the past week.
Bago
@Zifnab: Didn’t we have a few arguments about unitary executives named George? It’s a gol-durn American tradition!
Weaselone
@Zifnab:
I agree regarding the unitary executive issue, but I don’t believe that torturing random poppy farmers and failing to deport 6 year old children is the relevant comparison here. The lack of enforcement of environmental regulations during the Bush administration is the closer parallel. The executive can have the power to prioritize enforcement of the laws on the books without having the power to engage in torture or spirit away suspects to undisclosed foreign locations.
Davis X. Machina
In defense of Brooksie, his Dead Intern Number is still zero.
El Cid
@WereBear: I would very quickly endanger my being invited back because I would — especially on a Maher-type show — very clearly say “Would you shut up? You said your bit, and when and if you say something worth a damn and with the slightest bit of intellectual merit, I’ll let you know. Until then, I’m talking, so shut the fuck up. I didn’t come on here to be your bullshit right wing call & response monkey.”
El Cid
@Davis X. Machina: Perhaps his office has desks with more rounded edges.
WereBear
And since that is why you were invited in the first place… you wouldn’t be invited back!
Villago Delenda Est
OK, the verb in this sentence is wrong.
Fast and Furious is pure wingnuttia in its most brazen form. It features not just one, but two of those overly tanned devils as villains. The sad fact is, it’s a deserting coward era program that one of the overly tanned devils put a stop to.
BoBo is really, really biting the big “I’m an incredible fuckhead, it’s amazing that I get paid by the NYT to write this crap” one.
ODB
Let me be the first to say this is excellent news for John McCain!
jl
On the plus side, I think Brooks used the word ‘juncture’ correctly.
Most of the goofy debate, or exchange, or discussion, or random word strings, was contentless spin, except Brooks also threw in quite a few lies by omission. Regarding Fast and Furious, Brooks omitted that the program started under Bush, but Issa refused to include anything under Bush in the investigation. Or that apparently Issa’s last and best offer in his supposedly thorough, careful and independent search for the truth, was to demand a scalp for winding down the investigation. And, that Issa appeared on Fox News peddling insane paranoia about the whole gun program being a sinister plot to increase gun violence as a pretext to destroy the second amendment (did that plot start in the Bush II administration too?).
So think about those items and reread Brooks’ anodyne boilerplate about the investigation.
On immigration, I’ve read polls indicating a majority of people supporting both the AZ nonsense and the DREAM act. Not all that surprizing given the frustration over the issue and desire to do something, anything.
And what to say about Brooks’ implicit denial that the GOP base, and the cynical GOP opportunists and insane fanatics in Congress shot down and continue to shoot down any efforts, bipartisan or partisan.
And exactly what has Rubio ‘been working on’ other than trimming speeches that get rammed back down his throat the next day by his own party.
Shields is an expert at saying nothing, so no need to discuss him.
Sad display of the bilge water what the so-called news media pumps out now.
Edit: in a comment a few days ago, I said the GOP was playing ‘footsie’ with paranoid conspiracy theories about Fast and Furious. Little did I know that Issa was running around Fox News and other propaganda outlets cynically pushing the lunatic nonsense.
My political judgment is suspect, at least that is what I hear from other commenters. But if I were Obama (or maybe a Biden) I would have a hard time calling Issa out publicly.
Villago Delenda Est
@El Cid:
What Clinton should have said was “it was a pretty good blow job. I’ve had better, I’ve had worse. But I’ve had at least one from a woman, which a lot of Republicans can never claim.”
Egg Berry
@MattF: The term for Brooks is “useful idiot.”
jazzgurl
ALL of them are SLIMEY BASTARDS …AND WORSE THAN SLIME!
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud:
I’m afraid this is correct.
As long as there is a substantial block of teatards in Congress, it will continue to deteriorate, and in order for anything to get done, the Executive will have to assume more and more power.
jl
Sorry, meant to type
My political judgment is suspect, at least that is what I hear from other commenters. But if I were Obama (or maybe a Biden) I would have a hard time NOT calling Issa out publicly.
Cacti
@Baud:
You’re so cool and contrarian.
How can I be just like you?
John Weiss
Bobo is a moron. Let it go.
bemused
@Nicole:
I’m willing to bet Gillespie sleeps in his precious black leather jacket.
Violet
@Southern Beale:
I don’t get why Democrats don’t attack their strengths, or the things people think are their strengths. Obvious things are attacking Republicans’ patriotism, fiscal responsibility, support of military. Republicans suck on all those things, but their image is that they are stronger on them. Attacks could work because if they had to defend themselves, it would become clear they don’t love America, have any fiscal responsibility, care about the military.
The other thing that just screams as an obvious thing to do is to turn “liberal” into a good word again. People have been afraid to identify themselves as liberal. But the younger generation doesn’t have the same baggage. Seems like a good time to run a PR campaign about that. Define liberal as something good, as something people want, and sell it to them. At the same time, define conservative as all the crap it is at the moment.
Baud
@Cacti:
Practice.
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P.S. FWIW, I’m not contrarian. I was ridiculing GOP hypocracy – not Obama.
Heliopause
No, it’s not funny, it’s perfectly understandable. As far as the general public can see this is a case of some faceless bureaucrats in two different administrations making dumbass decisions and now everybody’s a little bit embarrassed about it. The U.S. attorneys scandal could be tied to a larger narrative, cronyism in the Bush Administration. So this will just seem like another game of political volleyball until they tie it to a larger narrative.
Unless truly something scandalous is being covered up and it comes to light I think F & F is mostly a waste of the GOP’s time.
Villago Delenda Est
@Heliopause:
Well, you know, BoBo is a Villager. He’s still steaming that the the fucking hoi polloi didn’t get all worked up in indignation that Bill Clinton lied about a blow job.
Zagloba
Who was that bond vigilante who tried to pull that on Chris Hayes a few weeks ago? I still believe that his panelmembership was revoked early, though I don’t have any proof of that. (The show doesn’t announce ahead of time who will move in and out of the panel for the various segments.)
Chris
@Peter:
No, you’re not wrong. At least not about the first sentence. I don’t know how long it took the Obama administration to shut it down or why, but yes, it was invented and originally implemented as a Bush administration policy.
And that explains the stories I’ve read that some Republicans have been gesturing frantically at Issa to stop the witch-hunt. They’re afraid if he keeps digging, he might dig up something that incriminates them as much as the Democrats, or possibly even more than the Democrats.
Chris
@GregB:
It’s also funny how quickly the “guns don’t kill people people kill people” principle died.
Citizen_X
This is utter bullshit, and Jon Stewart said the same thing (albeit maybe in passing) the other night. The government wasn’t sending shit. Gun stores were selling guns to gang mules–which is all too common, and one of the things the right’s nervously trying to cover for with all the NRA paranoia–who were allowed to cross into Mexico. The Feds were supposed to track the guns, and that is where they fucked up.
Don’t let them spread this bullshit by constant repetition.
GxB
@El Cid: Well Rachel did pretty much that at one point. Didn’t really stop Dizzy Gillespie much…
I gotta hand it to the right, they’re focused, disciplined, and militant with their talking points – until we find a few more on our team (like Rachel for instance) and can present a unified counter-attack, we’re going to continue to lose the messaging war.
[Yeah I know – really profound, original observation here, but at least I got the repetition angle going on…]
22over7
Citizen_x gets close to the heart of this. The real purpose of this scandal is to sink the Justice Department into uselessness, and while they deal with the media storm, gun manufacturers can continue to sell to Mexican drug lords (the war on drugs must continue). As an added bonus, the Attorney General will be hampered in his efforts at stopping voter suppression in the states (see Florida).
The scandal that the Obama administration must deal with is just gravy.
Keith G
@Nicole: It appears from what I have read the it was not the same. F & F was the Bush ideas on steroids. It was a bollocks, as these kind of operations can sometimes be.
Obama’s problem here is that this is a story that the GOP is able to define. Obama’s trade mark passivity may not be serving him well. I guess the unknown now is whether or not the story will burn out before it does any lasting damage.
Sentient Puddle
@Peter:
Actually, you are wrong. The operation from the Bush era was called something different, and Fast and Furious was separate. That said, it was separate in the sense of “Let’s have another round of this.” Some differences in the specifics, but at a high level, they were more or less the same.
This would also mean that it wasn’t shut down by the Obama administration when they found out about it.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@Southern Beale:
There’s something up with Maddow, the PTB seem to have it out for her.
This is the third mediastream from which I’ve heard someone try to pin “HACK!” onto her (the other two being Scott Brown’s fundraising materials, and the Boston Herald).
Don’t laugh, but besides smearing her personally, IMO they’re trying to discredit her whole “facts and figures and logic and reason” style of argument.
“Ok, Rachel” is already a rightwing comeback in common use around these parts. And none of these fuckers were smart enough to come up with that all by themselves.
Hill Dweller
@Keith G:
The White House had nothing to do with Fast and Furious. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest otherwise. Issa admitted as much this morning on Fox.
They’re going after Holder for trying to shut down their voter suppression operation and investigating Sheldon Andelson’s bribing of Chinese officials.
reflectionephemeral
Am on a phone, so less exposition than usual, but this week, Dick Cheney’s daughter was in the news for… marrying? Having a kid? With her longtime partner.
Here’s David Brooks, in 2004, writing that Kerry sayint that Bush wanted to privatize Social Security, and mentioning Cheney’s daughter’s homosexuality (’cause it was so shameful, I guess) made Kerry a bad man: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/opinion/19brooks.html?oref=login&oref=login
He’s the thinking man’s Sean Hannity. Nothing more, nothing less.
Jennifer
Dear Fucking Bobo:
Over the past 3 years, you have incessantly wrung your hands over the need to get government spending under control – preferably by cutting out all the things that benefit 99% of the people in this country. It may come as a surprise to you that, in fact, the INS is currently underfunded – with the funding it has, it would be impossible for the INS to round up and deport all the illegal immigrants in the country. This being the case, an executive directive that says “do not use limited funds to round up and deport young people who were brought here illegally as children by their parents and who to all appearances are working to improve their lives and the country; these people are not guilty of breaking immigration law. Limited resources should instead be directed towards rounding up and deporting people who came here illegally as adults and who have criminal records” cannot reasonably be interpreted as “ignoring the law” so long as the law is continuing to be carried out; it’s not the president’s fault that you and your fellow servants in Congress have made so much noise about cutting spending that the government doesn’t have the money to enforce the law across the board. It may further come as a surprise to you that many large city police forces don’t spend a lot of time writing tickets for jaywalking because again, resources are limited, and the police have bigger fish to fry with rounding up murderers, rapists, armed robbers, and so forth. You could as easily accuse police departments of “ignoring the law” and would not make yourself look like any more of a jackass than you already have with your weak tea about the president directing that the law be “ignored.”
FlipYrWhig
@Citizen_X: Furthermore, as I recall, Al Qaeda training materials specifically pointed out how America’s lax gun laws made it easy to acquire the necessary weaponry. The fact that it’s so easy to buy guns here really is a huge problem for law enforcement.
mk3872
I love this:
THAT’S CYNICAL?? But filibustering the actual bill is NOT??
Blocking a vote from even officially occurring in the Senate when 55 out of 100 senators voted FOR the law is not CYNICAL??
Gimme a break …
WereBear
I’m not laughing at all, because I agree with you.
Southern Beale
@El Cid:
Oh GOD yes. Something else they all learn at the Frank Luntz School For RW Pundits. That’s one of my biggest complaints, these assholes NEVER come up for fucking air, they talk over everyone, dominate the conversation, refuse to let anyone else speak. This is absolutely on purpose. This was something else I really noticed when Krugman appeared on a BBC panel with two conservatives, not just the content of the conversatin but the fact that everyone got to fucking talk!
And you know I used to think the conservative women were the worst because they are, they’re terrible about not shutting up, but the men do it to. And I blame the hosts, Maher or whomever is moderating the panel should say NO shut up and let people respond. Three times of that and if they don’t cut the fucking mic. In fact, I think they’re desperate for a liberal host to cut their mics, so when Hannity and Rush do it they can all say “Bwaaahaa Maher does it too nya nya.”
WereBear
We are living in Lord of the Flies. I wouldn’t mind being ruled by children… if they were nice.
But we are being tormented by trained brats.
El Cid
@Southern Beale: I’ve seen Maher happily interrupt liberals and lefties who he thought were talking too much or not letting a conservative speak.
Likewise, women talking over men.
Conservatives droning over liberals or lefties, and in particular over women, Maher doesn’t seem to have a problem with.
Cmm
@bemused:
I bet his leather jacket smells like old funky armpit sweat covered in Polo cologne.
Cmm
@bemused:
I bet his leather jacket smells like old funky armpit sweat covered in Polo cologne.
GxB
@Southern Beale: Kthug! Hey thanks for that link. I’ve been watching a lot of his clips and here he is yet again schooling the “experts.” So very disturbing that the conservative pathology is rampant, and their polite Brit ways are thinly veiled outright hostility.
In this and other recent clips I can’t help but notice they love to have him at least outnumbered by cons and/or a hostile host. But this host seemed to have a smile on his face like “This guy brought game!”
If I have a crit however, it is he should be pushing for revenue (tax) increases (esp. on the wealthy as they can best afford it, as we are in a crisis) but even I know that will relegate him to a blacklist that will assure his total irrelevancy. Dare to dream…
What remains is how amazing the lengths his opposition will go to to ignore the lessons of the 1930’s:
“We’re NOT in a depression.” (okay semantics here, and I guess they mean a lot of filthy rich folk are still filthy rich)
“We can’t continue to borrow our way out of an economic downturn” (as if all that money cranked into public works and into the hands of otherwise idle people with bills and such are just going to be squirreled it away into offshore accounts)
and the all time classic – “Think of the debt we’re leaving our children!” (as they rape and pillage everything for themselves)
Psychopaths, all over the goddamned globe…