Joe the Plumber Creates a Crisis of Confidence
| Tue Feb. 3, 2009 8:09 AM PST
Is this what we've come to? Republicans lawmakers listen to conservative experts and Democratic lawmakers listen to liberal experts, and because everyone listens to people who will tell them what they want to hear the idea of expertise is rendered meaningless, thus opening the door for Joe the freaking Plumber to advise the Conservative Working Group in Congress on how to proceed on the stimulus bill.
This isn't a single, random, insanely silly moment. This is a sign that something is deeply wrong with the way we make policy in this country. It shouldn't make you laugh. It should make you cry. (Okay, maybe laugh and cry.)
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Maybe part of the problem is that the media doesn't take the time to figure out and explain whether "Democratic experts" or "Republican experts" are more full of BS, opting instead to strike a pose of moral superiority by cursing both houses. If only there were some smart, fearless magazine that could remind us of which party has engaged in a decades-long quest to undermine the very notion that facts are important, and which party once was led by a guy who might have lied about being the inspiration for "Love Story." I just can't remember which is which!
"Maybe part of the problem
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun Jul. 5, 2009 1:18 AM PDT.
"Maybe part of the problem is that the media doesn't take the time to figure out and explain..."
"...which party once was led by a guy who might have lied about being the inspiration for "Love Story."
Interesting comments when the poster fails to "take the time" to research the complete lie the "fake inspiration" for Love Story he is repeating. To pull that old, long debunked canard out of history throws a great deal of insight into hypocrisy all partisan commentary comes with. And why internet commentary pollutes our perception far more then it ever will inform.
Yes Jonathan, there is indeed something deeply wrong with the way we make policy in this country and it is the GOP that dumped America into this economic cesspool.
Needless to say that as long as the GOP is left to the likes of Joe the Plumber, Steele, Palin, Limbaugh, Boehner and McConnell to make policy for the GOP they'll never recover.
The most significant historical perspective today is that the three worst enemies of Democracy in the last 100 years have been 1) the fascists that caused WWII, then 2) the communists that caused the cold war, and 3) in this new century America's worst enemy has been the GOP that caused all the worst problems America faces today. That's why they are desperate enough to go to the bottom of the barrel where Joe the Plumber Steel and Palin live to look for survival.
For the last eight years the White House and congressional GOP have done everything they can to sabotage American Capitalist Democracy starting with tax cuts and out of control deregulation to benefit only the richest that caused the recession with GOP terrorist attacks against the middle class and attacks against humanity that have destroyed everything America gained as a world power from WWII.
And now the Boehner-McConnell-Limbaugh Fifth Column rules the GOP in congress continuing to accomplish what the fascists, communists and arab terrorists failed to do by completing their sabotage of the American Way of Life as their final legacy.
Jonathan,
I have this idea that you guys could create a timeline for each large progressive issue. Weekly you could approach the White House press and representatives from Congress and Senate to report on progress in each area. The reasoning would be that the headlining news always seems to take reporting off course on other topics. So that, while each week you would report on things happening as now, there would still be this device in place for putting info out on steps, if any, being taken place on key subjects like: environment, education, health care, human rights, etc. You could ask members of each party to share some comments on the progress or lack there of and for each week that ticked by with stagnant progress on a given subject, it would be a tool for showing the public what is being accomplished. It could be a great way to keep the news organized and to hold the elected officials accountable for following through. It would take a big engine, I suppose, but I think it could be so useful.
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