I think Maha just might have come up with the high-end talking point for 2008:
A generation of Americans have been born and grown into adulthood listening to rightie propaganda that taxes must always go down. "Starve the beast," you know. The problem is that "the beast" conservatives are starving is our country.
Now, go read the whole post.
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I haven't seen it summed up quite as well as here:
Dog: I am starving.
I used to think that Democratic politicians were trying to be too clever by half, and consequently screwed things up.
I was just going to leave my plug for the Skeptics' Circle this week stand as my only post today--until I became aware of some serious
Either one shouldn't take polls or 24 percent of the American public seriously. Of course, these are not mutually exclusive options. Kevin Drum summarizes the incongruence:
The three pillars of the Right -- fiscal conservatism, bellicosity and religion. That is, reduce tax income, splurge on war, and pray for God to cover the gap.
" those people waste money like there's no tomorrow. "
This is true in a literal sense for many conservatives. Many fundamentalist christians believe that the end of the world is near, and therefore there is no need to conserve anything or save or otherwise act responsibly.