The Tax Man Cometh
I have a previously scheduled family outing or I would be joining protesters in Madison tomorrow. I do wonder though, what the reaction would be were I to bring an actual pitch fork. I await watching the fallout of the many TEA parties scheduled for April 15th. (side note: every April 15th I mourn the failure of the bill that proposed making tax day the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November)
The mainstream media anticipation ranges from ignoring it completely to calling it a FOX News event, not stopping to consider for a moment that if FOX really had that much influence and organizational capacity these protests would be aimed at President McCain. There is, by the way, a strong hint of non-partisanship air about this whole thing, underscored perhaps by Obama's declining numbers among independents.
Meanwhile, of the lamestream coverage you do get, plan on at least some of it being from lefty trolls assigned to seek out and sensationalize only the fringiest of the fringe. Can't let the opportunity to showcase the rightwing loony caricature slip away. You know the msm motto - - screw the facts, stick to the narrative!
Speaking of which, seems even though the Republicans are deservedly out of power these days, there is always a lefty pundit or two out there willing to kick them while they're down. The Paul Krugman headline of Real Clear Politics yesterday is a good case in point:
The GOP Has Been Crazy For 15 Years
Why, you might ask, do you even bother reading wanks like Krugman? Well, first of all, it's never a bad idea to check the thinking, a loose use of the term admittedly, of your adversaries, you know, try to see the story from the other side. True enough, but I have to admit it's mostly an exercise in ego. I mean, what better place to go than the New York Times for a humble Heartlander to feel like a genius compared to an elitist Ivy League Nobelist? I grant it does get tedious, but being called stupid by an idiot really doesn't carry much weight. Probably among the most fascinating aspect of this is how the Times insists on spilling so much ink on the tedium while the company continues to tank - - with no apparent clue that the two are related.
Then of course there's the most successful loser in all of political history, Robert Shrum, adviser to Dukakis, Gore, Kerry etc. again courtesy Real Clear Politics The Republican Ruins wherein he unloads the usual; Republicans are fill in the blanks ... stupid, racist, anti-environmental, anti-growth, anti-health care reform, anti-energy independence, yada yada yada. Sample:
This is the Republican Party the country sees, a spectacle of resentments and recriminations vying for attention with a president who pursues sweeping economic change while conquering hearts and minds overseas and coolly dispatching the shoot-to-kill order that freed an American ship captain from Somali Pirates.
Well, anyone who can believe the result of Obama's recent trip was "conquering hearts and minds overseas" is certainly qualified to reduce time tested constitutionally-based principles as "a spectacle of resentments". My word what an unmitigated gasbag.
Insults from someone serious might be a little more painful, but insults from the likes of Krugman and Shrum, are like, oh, I don't know, compliments? As long as the name calling keeps coming from the utterly detached we are doing something right. Why, one wonders, would they give us so much attention and concern if we are as irrelevant as they claim?
Bonus Video - Mr. Jefferson - Politics
and in honor of tax day and TEA Party goers.
reason.tv - Videos > W2-WTF?!
The mainstream media anticipation ranges from ignoring it completely to calling it a FOX News event, not stopping to consider for a moment that if FOX really had that much influence and organizational capacity these protests would be aimed at President McCain. There is, by the way, a strong hint of non-partisanship air about this whole thing, underscored perhaps by Obama's declining numbers among independents.
Meanwhile, of the lamestream coverage you do get, plan on at least some of it being from lefty trolls assigned to seek out and sensationalize only the fringiest of the fringe. Can't let the opportunity to showcase the rightwing loony caricature slip away. You know the msm motto - - screw the facts, stick to the narrative!
Speaking of which, seems even though the Republicans are deservedly out of power these days, there is always a lefty pundit or two out there willing to kick them while they're down. The Paul Krugman headline of Real Clear Politics yesterday is a good case in point:
The GOP Has Been Crazy For 15 Years
Why, you might ask, do you even bother reading wanks like Krugman? Well, first of all, it's never a bad idea to check the thinking, a loose use of the term admittedly, of your adversaries, you know, try to see the story from the other side. True enough, but I have to admit it's mostly an exercise in ego. I mean, what better place to go than the New York Times for a humble Heartlander to feel like a genius compared to an elitist Ivy League Nobelist? I grant it does get tedious, but being called stupid by an idiot really doesn't carry much weight. Probably among the most fascinating aspect of this is how the Times insists on spilling so much ink on the tedium while the company continues to tank - - with no apparent clue that the two are related.
Then of course there's the most successful loser in all of political history, Robert Shrum, adviser to Dukakis, Gore, Kerry etc. again courtesy Real Clear Politics The Republican Ruins wherein he unloads the usual; Republicans are fill in the blanks ... stupid, racist, anti-environmental, anti-growth, anti-health care reform, anti-energy independence, yada yada yada. Sample:
This is the Republican Party the country sees, a spectacle of resentments and recriminations vying for attention with a president who pursues sweeping economic change while conquering hearts and minds overseas and coolly dispatching the shoot-to-kill order that freed an American ship captain from Somali Pirates.
Well, anyone who can believe the result of Obama's recent trip was "conquering hearts and minds overseas" is certainly qualified to reduce time tested constitutionally-based principles as "a spectacle of resentments". My word what an unmitigated gasbag.
Insults from someone serious might be a little more painful, but insults from the likes of Krugman and Shrum, are like, oh, I don't know, compliments? As long as the name calling keeps coming from the utterly detached we are doing something right. Why, one wonders, would they give us so much attention and concern if we are as irrelevant as they claim?
Bonus Video - Mr. Jefferson - Politics
and in honor of tax day and TEA Party goers.
reason.tv - Videos > W2-WTF?!
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