Wednesday, April 15, 2009

GOP leads the DEVOlution: Anti-Tax-Tea-Parties!

Fox and friends?

LA Times sums up all the Anti-Obama tax day protests: Insanity.

Andrew Sullivan nails it.
"If you favor no bailouts, then say so. If you want to see the banking system collapse, then say so. If you think the recession demands no fiscal stimulus, then say so. If you favor big cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, social security and defense, then say so. I keep waiting for Reynolds to tell us what these protests are for; and he can only spin what they they are against."

"All protests against spending that do not tell us how to reduce it are fatuous pieces of theater, not constructive acts of politics. And until the right is able to make a constructive and specific argument about how they intend to reduce spending and debt and borrowing, they deserve to be dismissed as performance artists in a desperate search for coherence in an age that has left them bewilderingly behind."

also, check out this Slate piece on conservative hypocrisy about Obama's proposal to limit charitable tax deductions for the rich.

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