Harold Ford vs. Kos
Best Coverage around the blogs for this:
Video: Harold Ford vs. Kos ” the PJM remix
Kos vs. Ford: Open thread Update: Video link added; Update: The Kos-Ford remix
Markos Moulitsas Abandons Netroots For Democrat Party Establishment
In reality, instead of crashing the gate of the Democrat Party establishment, Moulitsas is now speaking all its talking points, so much so that his op-ed in Saturday’s Washington Post shouldn’t have been entitled “How We Won The Mainstream,” but “How I Sold My Soul To Become Part Of It.”
Such was immediately evident as like virtually all of today’s Democrats, Markos unashamedly displayed their same specious command of the budget process, and just as cynically as the worst of them, relied on viewers being similarly uneducated when it comes to fiscal matters.
Of course, this has been a mainstay of Democrats for decades: misleading the citizens about the federal budget.
Sadly, as the owner of a website who should understand just how easy it is in the year 2007 for folks to get the facts, it really is disgraceful how loosely Moulitsas played with them. And, as someone who claims to want politicians to be honest with Americans, it is deplorable that Moulitsas is so comfortable disseminating the same fallacies that have become commonplace in the Democrat Party establishment he professes an interest in changing.
In fact, the Emperor must have been in full cackle when Markos disingenuously connected tax cuts to levees in New Orleans and a bridge in Minneapolis regardless of projections for federal tax receipts to be $515 billion more this year than in fiscal 2000 before the first Bush tax cuts were implemented, a 25 percent increase.
Beyond this, Congress will spend almost $1 trillion more this year than in fiscal 2000, a 56 percent increase. As such, claiming that there isn’t money available for anything is a despicable lie that one would only expect from a seasoned politician, the type Markos used to claim to his followers he was fighting to unseat.
As a result, rather than presenting a new idea created by himself and the Netroots on Sunday, Moulitsas was singing the same tune about tax cuts and spending the Democrat Party has been sadly singing for years.
August 13, 2007 - 12:34 PM on August 13th, 2007
The truth, facts, reality have never got in the way of a Moonbat talking point.
Daily Kos = Daily Pos. As always…