Lies and Fools

Pr.26:5*

BoBo lies:

Over the past few weeks, the president has called their bluff. By embracing the progressive indexing of Social Security benefits, the president has asked us to make a shared sacrifice for the common good. He's asking middle- and upper-class folks to accept benefit cuts so there will be money for the people who are really facing poverty.

So how has the St. Francis of Assisi wing of the Democratic Party responded to Bush's challenge? Does it applaud him for doing what it has spent the past years telling him he should do? Of course not.

The Democratic leadership has dropped all that shared sacrifice talk and started making demagogic appeals to people's narrow self-interest. Nancy Pelosi cries out that Bush's progressive indexing idea means "cutting the benefits of middle-class seniors." Representative Sander Levin protests it "would result in the biggest benefit cut in the history of Social Security."

The Times should require columnists make arguments that do not contradict or let go unchallenged facts previously reported in the newspaper. BoBo play pretends no one reads or remembers the facts covered in Krugman's NY Times columns. The Presnit's plan is not progressive, it unfairly taxes and reduces benefits for those living in poverty and it hits the middle class hard. BoBo doesn't even try to disprove what Krugman wrote so he pretends it never happened and just bullshits us.

Brooks acts like an ass. Who the fuck cares what this rightwing kiss-ass thinks about the middle class? He's clueless about normal life. He's part of a small clique of wealthy pundits that do not understand middle class life. Shame on him for bullshitting an intelligent readership about the basic facts the define this important issue.

The Times Editor has best establish quality control on his new columnists least he diminish the paper's reputation with it's core readership - people interested fact driven, reality based debate. William Safire set a bad example.