Cross Posted at Media In Trouble
It is official, finally, the wingers have decided to stand up to President Bush and the GOP for spending too much money.
The imagined/proposed $200 billion for relief of Katrina is the straw that finally broke the camel’s back. The Congressional boondoggles over the last 5 years including vast galas of innaugural celebrations during wartime, not one but 2 wars, $300 billion highway bill, Federally bailing out the airline industries pensions, the over $500 billion defense budget, the $290 billion that stopped comming in thanks to repeal of the Estate Tax, and the countless trillions lost to the miracle of compound interest had Bush not cut taxes for the richest.
All these things did not bother great minds such as the one residing in Stephen Moore’s Cerebral Frontal Lobe. For they do not equate a lack of revenue with increase spending as one-in-the-same,resulting in a lack-of-money-for-shit-America-needs. To them its always OK to choke the government’s intake valve. As for the pressing gas pedal, only in the dire circumstance of benefitting those who need it least.
Sparing aweful automotive metaphors like the one I just used, I am sure the internets are ripe with information along these lines. Where a Cato or Herritage Foundation flunky will publish a policy pushing a tax break in the amount of X which equals an increase in free-market-enterprise Y, resulting in a society of golfers, soccer moms, and suburbanites drinking Mimosas as they compare their privatized retirement account statements.
Let me point to one such example that Stephen Moore has given us.
For example this from only 3 years ago discussing the generalities revolving around deregulation of broadband (which, I am in favor of to some extent):
By some estimates, it will cost telecom companies some $200 billion of added broadband investment to lay down the cables to bring this technology into most homes and businesses. How can this investment be accelerated? One answer is for Congress to let businesses write off their mega-investments the year they’re made.
And then today’s WSJ OpinionJournal piece access to which can be found here. Stephen is elloquently saying that thanks to the bad spenders in Congress, we can no longer afford to help Katrina victims.
Politicians from seemingly every congressional district appear to be elbowing their way to the orgy table for a slice of this $200-billion pie.
I will ignore the orgy table, an obvious reference to a torture device used to punish Evangelical Christians who decide to pollute their bodies with pre-marital sex.
To his credit, Stephen does point out some of the shameful spending mentioned above. To his discredit, Stephen of course omits the lack of revenues which could offset such spending ventures.
Using the examples I pointed out. To at least Stephen Moore, it seems OK to spend $200 billion to give a tax break for telecom companies, yet not ok to spend it on the victims of Katrina. All that is missing for the hypocritic right wing trifecta would be for these words to come from a “Pat Robertson Republican” accompanied by some anti-christian, judicial activist, abortion riddled vitriol. In which case the detractions from Jesus’ poverty preaches would be obvious.
It is examples such as this that make me proud to poetically piss on conservatives.
