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Alt title, “John Boehner is an idiot.”
In “GOP House leader criticizes decision to air partial video of Shirley Sherrod“, our putative future most powerful man in America says, “They only put a little piece of the story out there and people make judgments and they rush and they make bad decisions. They make rash decisions.”
Which is completed by “I don’t want to say bad because I haven’t seen all of this.”
Okay, maybe the reporter sandbagged Boehner. But is Boehner so stupid that he doesn’t understand that he should spend all his time criticizing the New York Times and other assorted socialists (and yes, John, you can use the word socialist)? Why spend even a moment criticizing the only conservatives actually doing anything?
Oh, of course. Because Republicans hate conservative principles more than they hate socialist principles. My apologies; I’m the stupid one.
One hopes this quote isn’t accurate: Congressman Paul Ryan saying, ‘Rationing happens today! The question is who will do it? The government? Or you, your doctor and your family?’
Good Lord, no. Choice is not rationing. Choice is the free market response to scarcity. The fact that there is scarcity does not imply that rationing must exist. Scarcity always exists. Rationing exists only when the free market is upended.
Think of it this way: I want to buy your house (or car or services as a doctor) but I can’t afford to. No rationing has occurred, but scarcity has raised its head and my budget can’t overcome it.
Now I want to buy your house, etc. and I can afford it, but some third party steps in and interferes with our ability to exchange goods. THAT is rationing.
Here’s a terrible headline:”Immigrant deaths in Arizona desert soaring in July”
The only way that’s going to be interpreted is in light of the dominant Arizona story now, the state law fighting back against illegal immigration.
But you read the story and it clearly establishes that the issues is along the entire border, not Arizona, and that in fact deaths are DOWN historically. They have one guy pulling out a tiny subset and saying, in effect, “Boy, if this continues, it’ll be HUGE.”
But that’s obviously stupid manipulation of data. Just as the headline is a stupid manipulation of narrative.
The real story is, why hasn’t AP been reporting that 500 people a year die sneaking across the border?
“No one party can fool all of the people all of the time,” he said. “That’s why we have two parties.”
Kudos to George Will: “wealth goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well-treated”.
It’s not hard, and it’s literally the most valuable thing in the world. And here we are destroying it, because of infantile posturing and ridiculous public policy.
