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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Send in the Clowns, Part Deux
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It’s not often that you see someone put on the clown makeup in real time, but bless his heart, John Cole certainly has the talent to pull it off:

Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs and the rest of the Wall Street gangs are posting record profits and handing out record bonuses, all because the American taxpayer spent trillions to shore up their recklessness. And since it cost so much, we are now being told we can’t pass another stimulus or do anything about health care. But hey- Matt Taibbi wrote a tough article and Jake DeSantis was stared at rudely once, so it all evens out.

I highlighted the sentence in the middle because it shows the attitude of the average Democrat in these times.  They don’t even consider the possibility of NOT spending hundreds of billions upon trillions of dollars that we don’t have, just because it makes them feel like they care so much.  Christ, Obama and his court jester, Joe Biden, have at least paid lip service to “paygo,” even if they are being completely insincere about it.  Most everyone else, though, is on the “spend like it’s 2005!” wagon.  Cole and his comrades aren’t worried about vastly increasing our national debt, when even the President has admitted that we can’t keep borrowing from China and that we are “out of money,” they’re bent out of shape that people don’t want to add even more debt. 

A couple of posts later, the same day, Cole then burps out this gem:

No links. Just guess. Who is a big enough hack that they could write the following:

“Porkulus has utterly failed, as has the Obama administration’s fiscal policies. Businesses have conserved capital in the face of massive new taxes and costs associated with Obama’s stated fiscal policies, such as cap-and-trade, foreign-income taxation, and the higher interest rates that will spring from the massive deficits Obama plans to create. The capital necessary for growth won’t appear in the market under these conditions, as we have clearly seen. When will the media begin to hold this administration responsible for Obama’s economy-killing agenda?”

Place your guesses in the comments.

Uh, John?  You might want to hold off on the gratuitous dog pics and middle-school tween-level posturing and see for yourself:

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Cole’s intellectual laziness and economic myopia aside, while amusing to point out here, isn’t ultimately the whole point of this post, however--it has to do with the larger issue of unemployment. (More after the jump)

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