Need a Laugh?
So did I. US Senator John Kerry, in a speech to the Center for American Progress, delivers as he warns incoming Republicans:
For the last months we’ve watched the news and read the campaign literature and heard a lot the soundbites. We've heard politicians say they won't become a part of Washington. That say they're for small government, lower taxes, and more freedom. But what do they really mean?
Do they want a government too limited to have invented the Internet, now a vital part of our commerce and communications? A government too small to give America’s auto industry and all its workers a second chance to fight for their survival? Taxes too low to invest in the research that creates jobs and industries and fills the Treasury with the revenue that educates our children, cures disease, and defends our country? We have to get past slogans and soundbites, reason together, and talk in real terms about how America can do its best.
Can anyone penetrate the many layers of mental bubble-wrap to inform the senator of the unprecedented, "unsustainable" fiscal trajectory he and his party have set for our republic?
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Jul '10
Re: Need a Laugh?
And the most destructive slogan to The U S of A that We should "get past[?]" (drumroll.....)
"Hope & Change"
May '10
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Why yes, Senator Kerry, glad you asked. We are for small government, lower taxes, and more freedom. That's what we really mean. All of the above.
Jun '10
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What does John Kerry care about debt? He'll just find another rich widow. Maybe that's why the death tax is so popular on the left...it's just like marrying that proverbial rich widow.
Jul '10
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They put that one forward for President. Of the United States. No, really, no joke.
Mentally and emotionally, he's still living in his mother's basement. With bar and hot tub, I'm sure. And enough ketchup to put it on everything.
Edited on Jan 11, 2011 at 11:47amJun '10
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There's plenty of money to fund the government and pay off the debt. It's just that greedy corporations, greedy Republicans, and greedy citizens won't part with their share for the common good. Now, if every corporation would just fork over all their profits, and citizens would just "lend" the government their IRA's and 401K's, we'll have this crisis cleaned up in no time. Trust us. And stay away from that lock box, kid, there's nothing in it anyway.
Sep '10
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Do they want a government too limited to have invented the Internet? (I thought Al Gore did that single-handed).
A government too small to give America’s auto industry and all its workers a second chance to fight for their survival? I will translate that one, too small to take tax money (that we dont have) from the non-union workers (auto and otherwise) to subsidize the very labor movement that bankrupted the companies in question. No I am not for that.
Taxes to fund education too low? Au contraire, spending has skyrocketed by any measure in the last 30 years with no measurable benefit. And since funding is primarily at the state and county level who cares what the fed does. Cut it all, I predict no movement.
Oct '10
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Let me fact-check the Senator from Massachusetts:
1) Al Gore invented the internet, not the government.
2) Unions, pensions and medical benefits are saving the auto companies, not the bailout.
3) Taxes won’t fill the treasury because evil corporations (except Apple and Starbucks) hide all of their profits overseas.
4) If we would just stop funding defense, other nations would like us more, so we need to stop funding the military immediately.
5) We can’t reason together with the Tea Party and Republicans because they are evil and stupid.
Jun '10
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Here is what Roger Scruton, the great English conservative, says in his recent book The Uses of Pessimism (which should be widely read) about those with the utopian mindset (Senator Kerry certainly qualifies): "[W]e are dealing not merely with . . . errors of reasoning, but with a cast of mind, and one that is in some mysterious way indifferent to truth." (62) Citing a Hungarian philosopher, Aurel Kolnai, he describes the utopian mindset as "a mind shaped by a particular moral and metaphysical need, which leads to the acceptance of absurdities not in spite of their absurdity, but because of it." (63)
Thus government invented the Internet, all government is doing (besides screwing GM's bondholders) is giving workers a second chance to continue GM's unsustainable business model (at our expense), etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Sep '10
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Just when you thought this horses patuti couldn't say anything more inane...
Dec '10
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Does the guy ever think? Ever? Is there any part of the matter shrouded beneath his coif that actually functions?
No? As Bill Cosby once said, "Brain damage!" Only explanation.
Still a shocker we didn't shellack this guy even more in 2004.
Sep '10
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Am I the only one who thinks Kerry sounds like Judge Smells from Caddyshack?