House of Eratosthenes

In terms of honesty, that ancient question beckons: Do we rank used car salesmen beneath politicians, or the other way ’round? I believe the question has just been answered.

Apologies to used car salesmen.

Now you have to love this bit of nonsense. Once again we’re seeing how valuable our system of government education is to the Democrats. After all, you could never pull this off with an educated electorate.

You know, don’t you, that taxes are going up at the end of the year. At the beginning of the Bush presidency the Republicans simply didn’t have enough votes to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. The Democrats insisted on an expiration date of December 31st, 2010. Now … since those tax cuts will expire and taxes are going up .. The Democrats have decided it might be a good political ploy to start referring to this as a “Republican Tax Increase.

Nope … not kidding: House majority leader Steny Hoyer says that the expiration of the Bush tax cuts is a “Republican tax increase” for “working Americans” and the Democrats have “no intention” of allowing it to go into effect. Hoyer says, “We have no intention of allowing the Republican tax increase — that their policies would lead to — to go into effect for working Americans. Period …. We’re going to act and make sure that the Republican phase out and increase in taxes does not end as they provided for in the laws they passed.”

This is just amazing. Now we have a lot of economists telling the Democrats that if they don’t extend the Bush tax cuts our economic recovery will be damaged. Democrats don’t want to cut the taxes on the top producers. They know that their base constituency loves taxing the rich … but they also don’t want to be seen as increasing taxes during a recovery. After all … what if the experts are right? What if increasing taxes on the very people who we’re depending on for job growth stalls our recovery? Well, that’s easy! We’ll just call them “Republican tax increases” and let them take the heat!

Again .. not to belabor the point … but you can’t get away with this if the voters are truly educated and informed.

After all … what if the experts are right?

Sheesh, how about “What if OUR stratigists, are full of self-serving crap, OUR champions are demonstrably bat-shit delusional,
and “the experts” are actually experts?”

(regurgitate the following in ONE breath)
The web/internet is freely educating the masses beyond their means . The constraints of academia, and the fourth estate, are becoming irrelevant. We MUST enforce world electronic censorship- “for the fatherless children of gay minority women illegal alien veterans that MAY be oppressively denied “free” electricity, and meaningful food…”.
- CaptDMO | 08/02/2010 @ 09:30
Sorry, that should be “…and meaningful nutrition…!!!”.
- CaptDMO | 08/02/2010 @ 09:33
…but you can’t get away with this if the voters are truly educated and informed.

tell a big enough lie long enough and it becomes the “truth”. Add to that the spineless republicans and you can be sure that the “republican tax increase” will be a well known fact by next year.
- pdwalker | 08/02/2010 @ 17:17
Left-wing mendacity at its finest. The willingness to tell such bald-faced lies and misrepresentations…is one of the reasons I’m so intolerant of left-wingers.
- cylarz | 08/03/2010 @ 11:28

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