Matt Taibbi
grapples with the oddities of the War on
Keynes and its proximal battles now being fought bravely, albeit confusedly, by the
Teabaggers:
[T]hat’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish… can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff. And bound to get weirder, I imagine, as this crisis gets worse and more complicated.
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comment in Taibbi's, uh, comment section:
I can’t wait for the next round of Republican protests where they all wear pearl necklaces.
Oh, god, I can't wait for national Pearl Necklace Day. Both the embarrassing sexual meaning as well as the fauxtrage, "pearl-clutching," fainting couch meaning.
ReplyDeleteTea Bagging and Peal Necklaces - let they forever be linked to the GOP as it sinks.