Cheney Endorses Kerry (or Edwards, or, Really Anyone But Bush)
The lefty region of the blogosphere is holding it's metaphorical side, laughing hysterically at Cheney's interview the other night.
"If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years, the kind of tax increases that both Kerry and Edwards have talked about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had."
As Josh Marshall -- and just about every other blog in the world, it seems -- points out...Right. We may have actually had positive job growth, rather than the negative job "growth" of the Bush/Cheney regime.
I think the blogs have it wrong though. Cheney is not "clueless" or "out of touch with reality" when he says this nonsense. On the contrary, he knows that uttering his lies in that famous monotone, to an unquestioning interviewer on Fox, or MSNBC, or CNN, then becomes part of the "reality" for many Americans. Like "knowing" that Hussein has WMD, or that al Qaeda and Iraq were "unquestionably" working together, and, of course, Saddam's "complicity" in the attacks of September 11. All false. All believed, if the polls are to be believed, by half of all Americans.
But Brad Delong does have some interesting questions about what it is, exactly, that Dick Cheney is trying to do in not only screwing us and our future, but George W. Bush as well.
"If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years, the kind of tax increases that both Kerry and Edwards have talked about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had."
As Josh Marshall -- and just about every other blog in the world, it seems -- points out...Right. We may have actually had positive job growth, rather than the negative job "growth" of the Bush/Cheney regime.
I think the blogs have it wrong though. Cheney is not "clueless" or "out of touch with reality" when he says this nonsense. On the contrary, he knows that uttering his lies in that famous monotone, to an unquestioning interviewer on Fox, or MSNBC, or CNN, then becomes part of the "reality" for many Americans. Like "knowing" that Hussein has WMD, or that al Qaeda and Iraq were "unquestionably" working together, and, of course, Saddam's "complicity" in the attacks of September 11. All false. All believed, if the polls are to be believed, by half of all Americans.
But Brad Delong does have some interesting questions about what it is, exactly, that Dick Cheney is trying to do in not only screwing us and our future, but George W. Bush as well.
posted by John at 6:37 PM
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