Molly Ivins: Sometimes, bad is bad

[Dudley_DUright]

So the Democrats have a candidate at last, and he is about bent over double with gravitas. I think that means he doesn't a have humorous bone in his body. It's a good thing there's at least one serious person in this race -- the Bushies are getting sillier and sillier.

Just when you thought no one could top Rod Paige calling the teacher's union "a terrorist organization," along comes Veep Cheney with this gem, "If Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two-to-three years, the kind of tax increases both Kerry and Edwards are talking about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had."

Uh, in the first place, Kerry and Edwards are not talking about tax increases at all, but about repealing part of Bush's tax cuts -- so we would have had no tax cuts, not tax increases. And in the second place, if losing 2.3 million jobs is "job growth," Dick Cheney is a laugh riot.

We've got a $500 billion deficit this year, and Bush's idea of a solution is to make his tax cuts permanent, a move that would cost about $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. Their other helpful suggestion is to redefine burger-flipping as " manufacturing jobs," (are these people never serious?) and if they can't redefine the problem out of existence, there's always the option of just announcing bad is good. Think how surprised we were to learn from Gregory Mankiw, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers: "Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade. ... More things are tradable than were tradable in the past, and that's a good thing."

more...

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16538

[JetCityLiberal]

1. And sometimes good is good!

Molly is good!

snip...
" One symptom of the fundamental unseriousness of the Bushies is that they never, ever admit they are wrong. Nor do they pay penalties for being wrong. What do you have to do to get fired in that outfit? They canned Paul O'Neill for telling the truth -- that seems to be fatal. On the other hand, when CIA Director George Tenet said intelligence "analysts never said there was an imminent threat" from Iraq, he wasn't cashiered -- they just pretended they didn't hear him. It is already a truism that this will be an event-driven election, and the spiraling chaos in Haiti and the horrendous coordinated bombings in Iraq remind us that it is good to have grown-ups in charge when serious things happen."

bush and his ilk have such a crappy arrogance to them I cannot stand. It is always someone else's fault says the appointed commander in chief who always sends the 'buck' passing to someone, anyone else.

They must go.

JetCityLiberal

[Lindsey]

2. Molly rocks!

n/t

[newyawker99]

6. Hi JetCityLiberal!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Molly Ivins: A Treasure

I still find Molly Ivins' columns a pleasure to read. Even when she's angry, she refrains from the hateful nastiness which seems to be so many of the Far Rightist hack writers and mud-slingers' stock-in-trade.

Keep rockin', Molly!

[doubleplusgood]

4. Cheney: "...job growth that we've had"

Amazing quote from Dick Cheney: "If Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two-to-three years, the kind of tax increases both Kerry and Edwards are talking about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had."

To give you an idea of how difficult it is to reason with the mind of a conservative, with people who form opinions based on beliefs & wishful thinking rather than facts & empirical evidence, I mentioned this quote to my father-in-law, a died-in-the-wool, longtime conservative. He actually believes that there HAS been job growth, pointing proudly to the 21,000 jobs created in February as "proof", ignoring the fact that you need to create 170,000/month to keep pace with population growth. And, nevermind that there are 2.3 million FEWER jobs now than in 2000.

[Hotler]

5. Molly Ivins and.....

Jim Hightower, two of my favorite reads.