Was there ever any chance that David Broder wouldn’t like the recommendations of the President’s commission on deficits and debt? After all, it is a bipartisan commission. How could they possibly produce a product that everyone hates and that no one supports?
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Broder would enthusiastically support the Commission to Eat Cute Little Puppy Dogs if it were bipartisan.
I think that commission would probably recommend eating kittens, as well. And, yes, Broder would laud that.
As my dad would say, it takes talent.
And here I thought the recent ‘report’ was actually just from Bowles and Simpson, not the commission, and is therefore just a conversation starter..
Is this wrong? Did I miss a 14 of 18 vote?
I kinda feel the reality-basis slipping the more people talk about ‘the commission’ doing this or that.
They haven’t done anything yet except start the intramural carping that is so often maligned on these pages.
I’m guessing that aside from pissing a lot of people off, very little will actually come from this commission beyond more propaganda to use on Sunday morning talkshows. Sufficiently softening up the public to willingly accept serfdom is a long-term project.
“You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk
You may be the head of some big TV network
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame
You may be living in another country under another name
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody” – Bob Dylan
The Libertarian fantasy of hyper empowered individuals is Utopian and a pipe dream.
Get back to work or ye get the lash.
Is it a Washington Star Alumni thing?