Quote: Bill Kristol wants there to be an "up or down" vote on taxes. Is the Senate filibustering not doing it for him anymore? Easton is mystified that anyone would do something that seems centered on the middle class -- and probably most lawmakers would agree! I mean, how many millions of dollars of campaign contributions can the "middle class" reliably provide to fund re-elections?
Quote: THIS WEEK WITH CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
I'm tuned in here today because it's an opportunity to hear from Imam Rauf on all this nonsense of the past few months. The alternative was watching Rudy Giuliani and David Gregory, which is, to me, like watching two clowns have bedbug coitus with each other while being smacked in the face with banana cream pies. Some things I cannot do! BUT! Today's TWw/CA includes my employer, so full disclosure: Arianna Huffington is my friend and employer since 2007 at this website that bears her last name.
But first: more Austan Goolsbee.
Christiane is jumping my guns, asking Goolsbee about comments Boehner made on the show I'm recapping next, FACE THE NATION. HMMMM. Maybe I should just jump over to FACE THE NATION real quick?
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Quote: FACE THE NATION
Hi! Today on Face The Nation, we have John Boehner and Keith Ellison. Will Boehner block tax cuts for the middle class if he can't get his billionaire bailout, too? Bob Schieffer will ask!
Schieffer points out to Boehner that President Obama has been talking about him a lot (in his home state). Boehner says that he's been offering Obama "new ideas," for months, and that there's nothing "new" about stimulus packages. He says we need to stop doing things that are counter-cyclical to the economic downturn, because why not have pro-cyclical policies that lead to a decade of malaise?
"I think raising taxes in a bad economy is a bad idea," says Boehner, who also thinks it's an equally bad idea to cut taxes in a flourishing economy. There are, essentially, no conditions in which raising revenues and paying down structural federal deficits are a wise idea.
And this:
What has the difference not been distinguished, between al Qaeda and the rest of the Islamic world? (Uhm, because no one does enough to point out that al Qaeda is a cult of conspiracy theorists who dazzle and terrorize and hoodwink the very people they profess to support, while simultaneously supporting some of the most corrupt governments abroad.) Manji says that Muslims she knows tell her that they don't know that al Qaeda kill and terrorize a lot of Muslims. I find that VERY HARD TO BELIEVE, because the primary feature of all terrorists is that they terrorize their own as a means of obtaining power! But, okay, if this has gone unnoticed -- NOTICE IT PEOPLE! The primary victim of the al Qaeda cult are the Muslim communities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, et al
Me: I just love his sarcasm. And his politics.
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