E. J. Dionne is getting tired…
…very tired, of carrying Obama’s water for him.
And if Obama’s lost E. J., there’s probably nobody left.
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…very tired, of carrying Obama’s water for him.
And if Obama’s lost E. J., there’s probably nobody left.
From the article:
“And in the short term, shouldn’t jobs and rising incomes be a higher priority than austerity?”
Where does he think money comes from, exactly?
If we held an award ceremony for most self-deluded pundit, I would nominate Dionne.
He is the most partisan “non-partisan” in the land, the most extreme “centrist” conceivable (well, apart from Obama – but he’s not a pundit, his pretensions to being one notwithstanding).
I wonder if Dionne believes in miracles. Because the way in which the “reasonable,” “centrist” position always winds up coinciding with boilerplate leftist dogma smacks of some pre-established harmony. Every time we read a Dionne piece we witness such a bona fide miracle.
That’s why me and my brother call him St. Dionne.
My advice to E.J. is to stop carrying his water and throw some of it in his face.
E.J. should talk to Hillary. She “ain’t no ways tahred.”
Mr. Dionne’s thought processes have long been a disgrace to his alma mater, whatever that may be. He talks of “tax cuts” when the issue is the expiration of current tax rates or the return of higher tax rates. He does not point out that ~45% of the population does not pay income taxes. Nor does he point out that in 2008 the top 1% of earners paid 38% of income taxes. There is so much blood you can squeeze out of a turnip . See what happened to NY and NJ when they raised income taxes on the top earners.
Mr Dionne ignores the main issue, which is SPENDING.
http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html
Well there’s always Matt Taibi. He’s the biggest Obama schill around. (Oh, and Ezra Klein.)
Sorry, the first paragraph above is supposed to be the blockquote, not the entire post.
Preview would be my friend if there was such a beast.
Gringo, I see on a more recent thread you cite the same link as I did. Sorry about the duplication.
I just went to the comments section to Dionne’s article and of the 51 comments, all were in opposition. I’ve noticed that often a majority of comments at the L.A.Times and the WaPo are conservative-leaning. Does anyone have a theory why?
Glenn Greenwald.
E.J. is still a disgusting, slavish TAXTAXTAX moonbat.
The federal workers got hefty raises while a lot of Americans were losing jobs. And, in return for foregoing more raises while other Americans are losing jobs there should be some exchange?
Like what, frinstance? Retirement before being hired?
Having just spoken with a friend who works for a federal law enforcement agency about the supposed “pay freeze”, there is something that is being missed in all of this. The freeze only affects their yearly “cost of living” raise, which is worth about 1.5 to 3% of salary. However, it does not affect their “step increases” which occur periodically and are much larger than that, so nobody is exactly “bummed out” in her office over the big “freeze”.
Besides, the average pay of agents in her office is $120,000 to $145,000 per year, not counting benefits. Considerably more (as in double) than us local cops make (even more than the local chief of a department with over 800 personnel).
I won’t go into the scarce amount of work that they do for that money.