OS has a friend, to whom he owes a lifetime debt of gratitude, who is a hopeless, Kool-Aid guzzling, academic-on-tenure, political leftist. Let's call him Kevin-Bob, who lives with his special friend Peter-Bob.
Kevin-Bob loves to mount his Facebook account and rant about how evil those Wepubwikans are, how they are just out to destroy us all.
OS, since Kevin-Bob is a friend, seeks to understand. What are the assumptions from which KBob begins his rants? So, OS actually clicks on a few of the links that KBob shares to prove his point.
This one is one of the most revealing ever, because it reveals what KBob thinks that people like me are thinking, what our motivations are in reality, what drives us, what gets us up in the morning. It's quite a read!
...and to think, for all these years, OS couldn't articulate his own thoughts for hisself.
From George Lakoff, writing at Huffington Post:
February 19, 2011.
The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy.
The individual issues are all too real: assaults on unions, public employees, women's rights, immigrants, the environment, health care, voting rights, food safety, pensions, prenatal care, science, public broadcasting, and on and on.
Budget deficits are a ruse, as we've seen in Wisconsin, where the governor turned a surplus into a deficit by providing corporate tax breaks, and then used the deficit as a ploy to break the unions, not just in Wisconsin, but seeking to be the first domino in a nationwide conservative movement.
Dang!! Those deficits aren't real! (Sound of head slapping forehead--of course!--now it all makes sense.)
OS hopes his readers take time to read the article. It is an insightful, well-written, flight into fantasy.
OS is becoming concerned that some numskull will decide it's time to spill blood at a State Capitol over the budget issues. At that point, conversation may cease altogether.
One again, OS urges: We don't want to go there. There is no telling how completely and tragically out of control the culture could spin.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Thursday, December 9, 2010
The Knives Are Drawn, Blue On Blue: The Democrat Left Rejects The Tax Deal
OldSouth just loves watching the leftists do that circular firing squad thang!
Just in from HuffPost, about thirty minutes ago:
WASHINGTON -- In a meeting on Thursday morning, the House Democratic caucus rejected the president's proposed deal on the Bush tax cuts but did not fully submarine the possibility of its passage, multiple sources tell The Huffington Post.
Members, by voice vote, passed a motion to reject the deal as currently written. The motion had been put forward by Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) and was seconded, informally, by Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Jay Inslee (D-Wash.).
"It was an indication of disapproval and a rejection of the deal as currently written," said one House Democratic aide.
The vote, which was conducted with something less than a full caucus present, was as much a repudiation of the substance of the deal as the White House's handling of it. According to sources, several members spoke out about the provision that deals with the estate tax, calling it too generous to the wealthy in its current incarnation. But there was also evident frustration with the administration for essentially cutting House Democrats out of the negotiations.
"The White House f---ed up in how they rolled this out and this is a vote sharing that frustration," said one aide. "But it is not a deal killer."
DeFazio added, "They said take it or leave it. We left it."
Hmmmm...OS remembers this was how the following initiatives were handled, in classic Leftie Politburo Take-It-Or-Leave-It fashion.
TARP: Remember how Henry Paulson demanded Congress give him dictatorial powers? When that failed, the whole stinking package was passed by the House (outside the limits of the Constitution) as a Senate bill that came to them. Not a word of protest from the Left. They were proud of what they did.
The Great Stimulus of 2009, in which Obama, Geithner, and Romer all swore that unemployment would be brought below 8%. Take it or leave it. They took it, proudly, and left us with the bill.
The GM and Chrysler bailouts, which turned bankruptcy law on its head. It was a proud moment for the Left.
Let's not forget Obamacare, ya'll, a true bend-the-culture-over-the-table moment if ever there were one. The Left were especially, hot-diggity proud of that one.
So, OS reads of their indignation with a bit of a grin on his grizzled face.
This quote is especially charming:
"The House was not consulted during the negotiations that produced this package, and our support cannot be taken for granted now or in the future," said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
(Thumping sound of old guy falling off his chair, laughing...)
The Lefties suffer from one basic delusion: They truly believe that all the wealth of a nation belongs to its government, and that it is dispensed to the serfs at the pleasure of the rulers. They didn't get the memo that that idea was repudiated in the sixteenth century, with the simultaneous emergence of both the Reformation and Renaissance. They despise the memo from 1792, the US Constitution.
They especially love the idea that they get to tax the labor and earnings of a person the entirety of his life, and if he manages to build wealth anyway, they get to steal it from his descendants.
Saddle up, ya'll. Gonna have to keep throwing these clowns out of office, from local town councils all the way to the White House. They just don't ever read the memos.
Just in from HuffPost, about thirty minutes ago:
WASHINGTON -- In a meeting on Thursday morning, the House Democratic caucus rejected the president's proposed deal on the Bush tax cuts but did not fully submarine the possibility of its passage, multiple sources tell The Huffington Post.
Members, by voice vote, passed a motion to reject the deal as currently written. The motion had been put forward by Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.) and was seconded, informally, by Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and Jay Inslee (D-Wash.).
"It was an indication of disapproval and a rejection of the deal as currently written," said one House Democratic aide.
The vote, which was conducted with something less than a full caucus present, was as much a repudiation of the substance of the deal as the White House's handling of it. According to sources, several members spoke out about the provision that deals with the estate tax, calling it too generous to the wealthy in its current incarnation. But there was also evident frustration with the administration for essentially cutting House Democrats out of the negotiations.
"The White House f---ed up in how they rolled this out and this is a vote sharing that frustration," said one aide. "But it is not a deal killer."
DeFazio added, "They said take it or leave it. We left it."
Hmmmm...OS remembers this was how the following initiatives were handled, in classic Leftie Politburo Take-It-Or-Leave-It fashion.
TARP: Remember how Henry Paulson demanded Congress give him dictatorial powers? When that failed, the whole stinking package was passed by the House (outside the limits of the Constitution) as a Senate bill that came to them. Not a word of protest from the Left. They were proud of what they did.
The Great Stimulus of 2009, in which Obama, Geithner, and Romer all swore that unemployment would be brought below 8%. Take it or leave it. They took it, proudly, and left us with the bill.
The GM and Chrysler bailouts, which turned bankruptcy law on its head. It was a proud moment for the Left.
Let's not forget Obamacare, ya'll, a true bend-the-culture-over-the-table moment if ever there were one. The Left were especially, hot-diggity proud of that one.
So, OS reads of their indignation with a bit of a grin on his grizzled face.
This quote is especially charming:
"The House was not consulted during the negotiations that produced this package, and our support cannot be taken for granted now or in the future," said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
(Thumping sound of old guy falling off his chair, laughing...)
The Lefties suffer from one basic delusion: They truly believe that all the wealth of a nation belongs to its government, and that it is dispensed to the serfs at the pleasure of the rulers. They didn't get the memo that that idea was repudiated in the sixteenth century, with the simultaneous emergence of both the Reformation and Renaissance. They despise the memo from 1792, the US Constitution.
They especially love the idea that they get to tax the labor and earnings of a person the entirety of his life, and if he manages to build wealth anyway, they get to steal it from his descendants.
Saddle up, ya'll. Gonna have to keep throwing these clowns out of office, from local town councils all the way to the White House. They just don't ever read the memos.
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