That Sinking Feeling
What's a president to do when he spends a month trying to rally public support for the GOP's 40-year old dream scheme to gut Social Security - and instead sees the public turn AGAINST him as, mirabile dictu, it occurs to them that a decrease in benefits doesn't really sound like such a great deal after all?
But the real piñata de la dia is Alan Greenspan, the Artist Formerly Known as the Fed Chairman Who Could Do No Wrong, whose cheerful impaling of his own reputation over the past five years seems finally to be breaking the skin. First Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid calls Greenspan "one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington" while speaking live on CNN, and now the heroic Paul Krugman, having abandoned his book sabbatical to come back and do battle with the president's faith-based economic brain trust, calls out Mr. Andrea Mitchell for his rank hypocrisy in the service of fealty to America's Finest Political Family Dynasty®. Feels good to land a few whacks, don't it? And who knows what candy may lurk inside...
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But the real piñata de la dia is Alan Greenspan, the Artist Formerly Known as the Fed Chairman Who Could Do No Wrong, whose cheerful impaling of his own reputation over the past five years seems finally to be breaking the skin. First Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid calls Greenspan "one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington" while speaking live on CNN, and now the heroic Paul Krugman, having abandoned his book sabbatical to come back and do battle with the president's faith-based economic brain trust, calls out Mr. Andrea Mitchell for his rank hypocrisy in the service of fealty to America's Finest Political Family Dynasty®. Feels good to land a few whacks, don't it? And who knows what candy may lurk inside...
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posted by Hotspur at 10:28 AM
2 Comments:
Top 10 things Alan Greenspan hated in the 90's but loves in the 00's:
10) Deficit spending
9) The Family Guy
8) A weak dollar
7) NASCAR
6) Inflation
5) U2
4) Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund
3) Poker Parties
2) Kowtowing to the President
1) Teri Hatcher
Aw, c'mon - NOBODY hated Teri Hatcher in the 90s. Well, not until they saw Heaven's Prisoners, anyway. And even then, the result was apathy. What a letdown. Man.
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