Fox News Sunday became the Theater of the Absurd yesterday. First, when host Chris Wallace asked Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner about evidence that the economy is slowing, and about leading economists calling for additional stimulus in response to those falling GDP numbers, Boehner said:
I wonder if Congressman Boehner had--let's just pick a medical condition at random---melanoma, would he say, 'I don't need to listen to the dermatologist or see no stinkin' biopsy results, I'll just ask the American people.' On second thought....
Then when Wallace asked Boehner about the extension of the Bush tax cuts exploding the deficit, Boehner replied, "Chris, you've been in Washington too long because that's all just a bunch of Washington talk." Said the man who has been in Washington since January 3, 1991. Boehner later re-iterated this point about "the Washington mindset" and "all those CBO numbers." Watch:
Never mind that during the health care debate Boehner loved him some CBO numbers when the preliminary figures showed reform adding to the deficit, calling them "devasting." But later figures showing HCR reduced the deficit were "a fallacy." I'm so confused.
Faiz Shakir at Think Progress called Boehner's 'we don't need all them fancy figures from all them brainiacs' attitude "anti-intellectualism." Speaking of anti-intellectual, there was Chris Wallace's other guest yesterday:
Yes, she's still writing notes on the palm of her hand (aka the Hillbilly TelePrompter). Palin had to write "$3.8 trillion in the next ten years" as the cost of extending the tax cuts so she wouldn't make a mistake and have those mean libruls say she didn't know what she was talking about. The former governor also made some claims about the extension of the tax cuts. That "it will have an effect on every single American who pays an income tax" and that "small businesses will be hit the hardest." (Caution: Please have duct tape handy in case you feel your head starting to explode).
If I may refudiate. Allowing the tax cuts to expire will only affect those making over $300,000 per year:
The "small businesses are hit hardest" fallacy is left over from the McCain--Palin campaign of 2008. The inconvenient (for Mrs. Shakespeare) truth is that less than 2% of small businesses would be affected by allowing the tax cuts for those making over $200,000 to end.
"Well, I don't need to see GDP numbers or to listen to economists. All I need to do is listen to the American people, because they've been asking the question now for 18 months, "where are the jobs?"
I wonder if Congressman Boehner had--let's just pick a medical condition at random---melanoma, would he say, 'I don't need to listen to the dermatologist or see no stinkin' biopsy results, I'll just ask the American people.' On second thought....
Then when Wallace asked Boehner about the extension of the Bush tax cuts exploding the deficit, Boehner replied, "Chris, you've been in Washington too long because that's all just a bunch of Washington talk." Said the man who has been in Washington since January 3, 1991. Boehner later re-iterated this point about "the Washington mindset" and "all those CBO numbers." Watch:
Never mind that during the health care debate Boehner loved him some CBO numbers when the preliminary figures showed reform adding to the deficit, calling them "devasting." But later figures showing HCR reduced the deficit were "a fallacy." I'm so confused.
Faiz Shakir at Think Progress called Boehner's 'we don't need all them fancy figures from all them brainiacs' attitude "anti-intellectualism." Speaking of anti-intellectual, there was Chris Wallace's other guest yesterday:
Yes, she's still writing notes on the palm of her hand (aka the Hillbilly TelePrompter). Palin had to write "$3.8 trillion in the next ten years" as the cost of extending the tax cuts so she wouldn't make a mistake and have those mean libruls say she didn't know what she was talking about. The former governor also made some claims about the extension of the tax cuts. That "it will have an effect on every single American who pays an income tax" and that "small businesses will be hit the hardest." (Caution: Please have duct tape handy in case you feel your head starting to explode).If I may refudiate. Allowing the tax cuts to expire will only affect those making over $300,000 per year:
The "small businesses are hit hardest" fallacy is left over from the McCain--Palin campaign of 2008. The inconvenient (for Mrs. Shakespeare) truth is that less than 2% of small businesses would be affected by allowing the tax cuts for those making over $200,000 to end.
Does this bitch actually think it's "clever" or "cute" to write on her palm and then show it to the camera? Surely she is doing this deliberately. No one could be THAT stupid, could they?
Oh yeah...sorry. I forgot. OF COURSE the Wasilla Hillbilly is that stupid.
Make her go away, Lord. Please, I beg of you. Make her go away!!
what about when wallace HAMMERED boehner about his website "boehner for speaker.com" where he solicits $100,000 a pop for "accessibility" to him IF he becomes speaker? can he be sued for fraud should be NOT become speaker? what about the clear unethical aspects to selling consideration for a congressional position? boehner attempted not once but twice to brush wallace off with "that's something offered by the republican party" and wallace was having NONE of it! wallace next proceeded to blister mcconnell over taking financial donations from large multinationals in his name for a university in louisville. mcconnell offered a very lame "i don't keep an office there" and wallace was two for two! wallace finished them off by sharing that rangels's attorney's plan to call attention to mcconnell and other republican all with ethical violations. while i'm not impressed by the "everyone's doing it" defense, i am most impressed by switching on faux for a few minutes on a sunday and actually finding something which could pass for "fair & balanced"!
Historians will look back upon this time as "The Age of Ignorance" precisely because the most desperately gullible people have command of the greatest means of communication ever devised by mankind, and it is being misused on a grand scale. Property rights, intellectual or otherwise, have been methodically stolen under popular demand - much like imminent domain was used by the railroads for domination of the west in the 1800's. The difference this time is that people are stealing their own
livelihoods from themselves in an orgy of consumption which has extended into the political realm and left Wall Street unchecked in it's thievery of the fortune of this country's reserves.
This is being orchestrated world-wide, and does not portend anything other than the greatest ignorance ever seen... And there
is no more crib space on the palms of the idiots!
Unless we come up with something like "The New Deal", and make the Republicans think that they authored the thing, there will be no resolution short of outright implosion of the economy and the imposition of a new monetary standard of some kind to replace the worthless currency we now hold.
The banks are bankrupt, the people are fed up, and the final throws of corruption will finish us off in short order...
The feeding frenzy will not abate.
Isn't it becoming more apparent that FOX is abandoning the charade they are a legitimate news network? They've become more emboldended by the TEA Partiers and other Obama haters and are just going full bore to the right.
It's good someone else watches them and reports on their ongoing follies because I don't have the stomach for it.
I wonder how many "rill 'merikans" Boehner meets on the fancy golf courses?
This worrying about "small business owners" is so much bullchyt. I've been told that a small business is defined as one with less than 500 employees. Most of my working life was spent in commercial real estate leasing, and I never met a business person who owned a business with more than a few employess that wasn't a corporation. I do not feel sorry for "small" business people who make $250,000/year or more. Most have their businesses pay for many of their personal expenses, including cars for the whole family (just stick a magnetic sign on it), services at their residences, including maids, gardeners and trades people and entertainment (got to belong to the country/golf club and entertain friends). It's predicted the IRS loses many billions each year due to small businesses taking deductions they are not legally entitled to take.
Words cannot describe my feelings about "McCain's Mistake."
Put yourself in Todd's shoes. Wouldn't you?
Greenspan went insane when he realized his world doesn't work. And of that 2% that are truly negatively impacted can probably be counted on a single hand. Rest assured that the reptiles will scrounge up all five of those sacrifices for show and tell.
What a pair of crash-test dummies. Pumpkinhead and Bobblehead.
I think Boehner has fried what few working brain cells he has with that shake and bake tan of his. And Palin's wits are addled. Did her mother drop her on her head as an infant or something?
Why the hell she won't go home and take care of those FIVE children (most of them in dire need of a mother) she brought into this world is beyond me. Unless Todd has told her to stay away. I wish we could do the same.
But...but...but...people earning over $300,000 are just regular Joes! Plumbers, actually!! You want those cronies in Washington to take hard-earned money out of the pockets of blue collar 'murcains??
As for other questions, why is it that the great Alaskan outdoors now sounds like an echo-filled news studio?
Why listen to them economists and experts? All they have are facts and logic on their side.
I have been quick to criticize our former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, but I think he is right on the money with his assesment of the Bush tax cuts.
From Bloomberg: Greenspan said that tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush should be allowed to expire at the end of the year.
Greenspan repeated this view on NBC yesterday, saying, “I’m very much in favor of tax cuts. But not with borrowed money.”
"Borrowing" the money from China to allow us to keep the tax cuts is not a very wise idea.