McCain gets a lesson in courage
Dennis Hastert says the darndest things.
Hastert's statement, combining the sacrifice of wounded soldiers with the need to make tax cuts for the rich permanent and new tax cuts easier to push through Congress, shows -- in addition to a contempt for logic -- an intellectual dishonesty that is really at the heart of why Bush and his henchmen in the House are driving us down a path that is unsustainable.
Everything is subsumed to an idealogical commitment to "starving the beast" -- eliminating funding for government -- and Republicans who defy that commitment have their patriotism impugned.
A similar dynamic is going on with the so-called war on terror. Reasonable discourse is simply not permitted. Ask a question about means and the response is to point at the flag.
That's why our fiscal situation is dire, as is our situation in Iraq.
Hastert's statement, combining the sacrifice of wounded soldiers with the need to make tax cuts for the rich permanent and new tax cuts easier to push through Congress, shows -- in addition to a contempt for logic -- an intellectual dishonesty that is really at the heart of why Bush and his henchmen in the House are driving us down a path that is unsustainable.
Everything is subsumed to an idealogical commitment to "starving the beast" -- eliminating funding for government -- and Republicans who defy that commitment have their patriotism impugned.
A similar dynamic is going on with the so-called war on terror. Reasonable discourse is simply not permitted. Ask a question about means and the response is to point at the flag.
That's why our fiscal situation is dire, as is our situation in Iraq.
posted by John at 2:59 PM
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