It's really not worth watching the Sunday morning news shows. Invariably, it's the same people saying the same things to the same other people. None of them are especially interesting things to say, either.
Well, this morning Matthew Yglesias was on C-Span along with a Heritage Foundation person, and interested in the rare opportunity to see a liberal on the tv, I turned it on. Two things I noticed.
One, liberals are way too polite. The Heritage guy would say some jackassy thing and Matthew Yglesias would politely state an opposing viewpoint, but never really go after the other guy's viewpoint - which left one with the opinion that these were two equally valid points of view, when one was just jackassy. Which brings me to point number
Two, can't we start telling these people that their ideas have already been given a chance in the real world and that the results really sucked? Do they not know that? Heritage guy: not enough tax cuts in the stimulus package. John Boehner: not enough tax cuts in the stimulus package. John McCain: Not enough tax cuts in the stimulus package. OMG shutup. Tax cuts were the big magic wand you people have been wielding for the last eight years, along with deregulation and off-budget expenses. If they had been good ideas, I guess the Republican permanent majority would now be here. Somebody needs to point this out.
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