Brian Suits is not a very smart man...
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elfsBrian Suits, morning rush-hour host at conservative station KVI ("The Truth!"), is not a very smart man. And when you're a right-wing tool and not a very smart man, you should be careful and stick to the talking points memo.
This morning Suits went off-memo when he admitted to his audience that, yes, the left-wing talking point was correct: tax rates are now lower than they've ever been. And yes, the other left-with talking point was also correct: the previous administration is mostly responsible for our current deficit.
"But that doesn't matter," he told his audience. "I'm still angry about taxes. Because they're going down a rathole." He then proceeded to rant about Henry Paulson's three-page bill authorizing him to do whatever he felt was necessary to save the banking system.
Admittedly, my understanding of what happened comes mostly from the "Giant Pool of Money" series on NPR and the Frontline series on the economic crisis. It seems to me that the worst we can say about Paulson is that he and Bernanke were playing a desperate game and did just about the only thing they could to keep the system from, collapsing completely, wiping out even more of our national personal savings. (That these "savings" are in the form of future-looking stocks and bond funds either says something great-- we're optimistic about our national economic futures-- or tragic-- we have no idea what real capital is about.)
Yet it seems to me that what Suits wants is to "starve the beast" even further. Now that he (and you, and me, and every American) is on the hook for debts he (and you and me and every American) rang up. Some of those debts are worthwhile-- they bought us roads, and bridges, and financial security for our ailing parents and, maybe, even our ailing selves. Those debts bought us emergency relief from floods, and hurricanes (although we saw how well a neglectful administration handled that), and volcanoes (paging Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal to the lava-encased white courtesy telephone), and earthquakes.
I think Suits represents the supposed "calmer half" of the Republican Party in its current incarnation: so bloody-mindedly short-sighted that it can't even begin to look its own responsibilities-- not as party hacks, but as Americans-- in the eye.
This morning Suits went off-memo when he admitted to his audience that, yes, the left-wing talking point was correct: tax rates are now lower than they've ever been. And yes, the other left-with talking point was also correct: the previous administration is mostly responsible for our current deficit.
"But that doesn't matter," he told his audience. "I'm still angry about taxes. Because they're going down a rathole." He then proceeded to rant about Henry Paulson's three-page bill authorizing him to do whatever he felt was necessary to save the banking system.
Admittedly, my understanding of what happened comes mostly from the "Giant Pool of Money" series on NPR and the Frontline series on the economic crisis. It seems to me that the worst we can say about Paulson is that he and Bernanke were playing a desperate game and did just about the only thing they could to keep the system from, collapsing completely, wiping out even more of our national personal savings. (That these "savings" are in the form of future-looking stocks and bond funds either says something great-- we're optimistic about our national economic futures-- or tragic-- we have no idea what real capital is about.)
Yet it seems to me that what Suits wants is to "starve the beast" even further. Now that he (and you, and me, and every American) is on the hook for debts he (and you and me and every American) rang up. Some of those debts are worthwhile-- they bought us roads, and bridges, and financial security for our ailing parents and, maybe, even our ailing selves. Those debts bought us emergency relief from floods, and hurricanes (although we saw how well a neglectful administration handled that), and volcanoes (paging Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal to the lava-encased white courtesy telephone), and earthquakes.
I think Suits represents the supposed "calmer half" of the Republican Party in its current incarnation: so bloody-mindedly short-sighted that it can't even begin to look its own responsibilities-- not as party hacks, but as Americans-- in the eye.
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Date: 2010-04-15 08:11 pm (UTC)You mean Suits is angry at the TreasSec appointed by the most recent Republican administration?
Is he trying to say that *all* tax is not ok, in his opinion? Is that a new Republican position? I'm pretty sure I've seen Republican representatives at all levels vote to *spend* money collected as taxes. In other words, the Suits position seems not Republican but quite a bit further to the right.
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Date: 2010-04-15 10:02 pm (UTC)Nice.
My new slogan: "REAL Patriots Pay Taxes."
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Date: 2010-04-16 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-16 04:24 am (UTC)And while they're at it, they can start repairing the potholes in my road.