I enjoyed Maggie Haberman's short post in Politico: "It appears as Ryan's appearance in [Florida] alongside Romney, planned for tomorrow, was redirected to Iowa." And so the fallout begins.
But the first comment at the bottom, from one Paul Costanza of East Rockaway, New York (Costanza, Costanza, let's see, ah yes, "Costanza" from New York, "Lord of the Idiots," right?) was even better:
My God, you liberals are either the most disingenuous or flat out dumbest people on the face of the earth. My favorite line in this thread is, "do you want to ask the top 2% to pay what they used to pay under Clinton so we can keep our safety net?" Does anyone really believe that the if we taxed ALL of the income of the "2%," that it would even scratch the surface of paying for the unfunded mandates the progressives have saddled us with over the last 80 years? Are you liberals all that mindless and sycophantic?
Could be. Not sure about that. But here's what we do know, Paul, and you obviously do not. Without raising payroll taxes by even a fraction of 1 percent, just lifting the income cap on Social Security contributions would virtually eliminate the program's coming deficit.
As for Medicare, its administrative cost is about 2 percent of revenue, whereas private health insurance used to run as high as 30 percent (now capped at 15 percent by President Obama's infamous ACA--oh, and consumer rebates are in the mail).
As for raising income taxes on the "top 2%"? Well, Paul, somebody has to pay for those unfunded, neoconservative wars, as well as that unfunded prescription program, and unfunded tax cuts.
Why now? Because you pseudoconservatives really were that mindless and sycophantic.
Senator Hatch admitted a few years ago that republicans didn't worry about the deficit when GWB was in the WH, and I saw this for myself. All of the pseudo-conservatives that have been screaming about the deficit didn't have one word to say when GWB was president. Hmmmm? I wonder why? I tease, but as a rather well-educated black female of 50+ years, I definitely know the answer to the question. I don't know whether these pseudo-conservatives are immune to facts, or whether they're just intent on having things their way in spite of the facts. It's a strange way to move through life, imo, being a hostage to one's ideology and an authoritarian follower. It would never work for me. I am so independent that when my friends in college were joining sororities, I was looking at them and wondering why they felt they needed other people to make themselves feel important. It could be the way my parents raised me. They placed a lot of emphasis on encouraging their kids to think for themselves. It works for me. It seems like Paul Costanza needs to develop this skill. His comment makes me wonder where he was during the years that the GWB administration and the republicans in Congress spent like they had their own printing presses. He's one of the jackazzzes who didn't open his foolish mouth from January 2001-January 2009. He woke up in 2009, and seeing a black democrat in the WH, panicked, and went straight to Stupidville, led to his destination by his nose by RW liars and Fox News.
Posted by: majii | August 12, 2012 at 05:03 PM
Bravo! Great post.
Posted by: You Don't Say | August 12, 2012 at 06:32 PM
majii--Great comments!!
Posted by: Anne | August 12, 2012 at 09:47 PM
Romney's job is bound to get much easier now that he has Paul Ryan to help him push on the rope.
Posted by: Peter G | August 13, 2012 at 07:10 AM
@Peter G: LOL
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | August 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM