My family started counting the times that spunky Sarah chirped "Greed and corruption! Greed and corruption!" Who knew that the Republicans were so intent on rooting out greed on Wall Street? I always thought they sort of liked greed. As my perceptive husband observed, "Isn't greed what powers the free market?"
But in the McCain/Palin administration we will have no more greed, no sir! Because government will rein in those greedy and corrupt people on Wall Street. Except, of course, that first we have to rein in government itself. Because as we all know, reducing taxes, cutting regulation, and getting government out of our lives is what really makes an economy strong. After all, it worked so well during the last eight years.
Palin has become the poster child for Republican gibberish. But the whole party is spouting the same incoherent nonsense: Wall Street is the problem, and government will solve it. No wait, government is the problem and free enterprise will solve it. Wait, maybe if we just reduce everyone's taxes (especially the taxes on the most greedy), that's sure to solve it.
There's nothing new in this doublespeak, but the image of Sarah Palin perkily chanting "greed and corruption! Greed and corruption!" will keep me chuckling for a few days. And that's before we even begin talking about promises to raise teacher salaries and invest heavily in education. Now, do we do that before or after we cut all those taxes? Or maybe we could just get an earmark for the teachers?