Enjoying his newfound viral fame after reading aides’ research and deflating Trump judicial nominee Matthew Peterson last week, Louisiana senator John Kennedy went on WAFB TV in Baton Rouge to take a victory lap… and a gratuitous, ignorant swipe at Democrats.
Plugging the GOP tax bill, he smarily summed up Democratic opposition to the bill as the result of economic ignorance.
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I understand that our Democratic friends don't agree with it, but their view is that tax policy has absolutely nothing to do with economic output. If you really truly believe that, then you must have been in the quad throwing the frisbee during Econ. 101,” said Kennedy.
Setting aside that no Democrat, politician or otherwise, has suggested “tax policy has nothing to do with economic output,” does his summary dismissal of all criticism of this terribly-crafted, unnecessary and egregiously regressive bill include actual economists like Krugman? Like Reagan/Bush’s Bruce Bartlett, the f’ing Father of Trickle Down? Like the economists who panned the plan in the Chicago IGM survey? Were they all lost in clouds of patchouli and kind bud out on the quad?
Republicans have no respect for truth, for science (even the dismal one) or, especially, the people they purportedly represent to the tune of $174K a year plus bennies. If you disagree with the orders of their PAC-wielding masters, their first response is to mock, their second to threaten. They are Biff from Back to the Future and, like him, have their posse of sycophantic followers egging them on (known by their network name And Friends).
This is what passes for “dialog” and “debate” for them: contempt with a cheering section. While 13 million will be damned to emergency rooms, or no care at all, they’ll be slurping shrimp cocktail and single malt, courtesy of their corporate liege lords.
They must be defeated. Control of the government must be wrested from their hands and never returned, if we are ever again to enjoy the republic our founders gifted us.
Resist. Now, next year and beyond.