With leaders like this, who needs comedians? Molly Ivins

[caledesi]

Molly does it again!

So the Democrats have a candidate at last, and he is about bent over double with gravitas.

I think that means he doesn't have a humorous bone in his body. It's a good thing there's at least one serious person in this race; the Bushies are getting sillier and sillier.

Just when you thought no one could top Education Secretary Rod Paige calling the teachers' union "a terrorist organization," along comes Veep Dick Cheney with this gem: "If Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two to three years, the kind of tax increases both Kerry and Edwards are talking about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had."

Uh, in the first place, Kerry and Edwards are not talking about tax increases at all but about repealing part of President Bush's tax cuts -- so we would have had fewer tax cuts, not tax increases. And in the second place, if losing 2.3 million jobs is "job growth," Cheney is a laugh riot.

We've got a $500 billion deficit this year, and Bush's idea of a solution is to make his tax cuts permanent -- a move that would cost about $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years.

link: http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/columnists/molly_ivins/8122595.htm

[izzie]

1. I like what she can do,

Hope she keeps it up

[trotsky]

2. Sadly, pointing this out is useless with most Repubs.

I've tried. The fact that tax cuts cause deficits is lost on them - they've drunk the supply-side Kool-Aid which says that cutting taxes will always spur enough growth to offset the lost revenue.

You know, how Reagan's tax cuts brought us those huge surpluses.

And how Clinton's enormous tax increase on the wealthy slowed down the economy and gave us record deficits.

:eyes:

[donhakman]

3. That is why

I am completely bewildered that Republicans I know who are barely making ends meet are so vehemently Bush. Its as if they think Jesus will reward them for Republican support.

[Disturbed]

4. Uh, bad news for the Christian Rethugs

Jesus was a socialist. Oooops.