Between the office in which I work and the nearest Caribou shop is a financial firm that plays, continuously during business hours on a giant TV for the de-edification of skyway strollers, Fox News. Yesterday, while I was on the way to get fortified for the last hours of the work day, the text at the bottom of the screen below the talking heads said: "American people have cut back, wonder when government will end the spending spree."
Maybe that's what Fox News viewers are wondering. But they've been systematically dumbed down--by Fox News. If "people have cut back," and business has done the same, then government is all that's left to stimulate a shrivelling economy. This notion that what's reasonable for an individual makes a good principle for government policy--it's just childish, churlish, and a crock of organic matter.
I prefer to get my right-wing talking points from Power Line. I can't tell you how Fox News is playing the Rand Paul story but the philosophers agree that he's "not ready for prime time," which is a way of putting it. Depend upon it, ladies and sirs, understatement is not an arrow in their rhetorical quiver. Regarding Dr. Paul, the diagnosis is in: basically sound but needs seasoning.
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