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Smackdown
Posted by: | CommentsRolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi is one of a kind. Fearless. Dedicated. Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Matt pulls no punches in his writing. His “great vampire squid” line will follow him into the afterlife.
Last week Taibbi couldn’t resist re-targeting one of his favorite Beltway sychophants, David Brooks, for his latest fawning tribute to America’s rich. Brooks believes they are simply “more industrious” than commoners. Brooks: Let Them Eat Work
True to form, most of Taibbi’s blog post is NSFW, but a brilliant smackdown nonetheless. Here’s a less-crude sample:
I would give just about anything to sit David Brooks down in front of some single mother somewhere who’s pulling two shitty minimum-wage jobs just to be able to afford a pair of $19 Mossimo sneakers at Target for her kid, and have him tell her, with a straight face, that her main problem is that she doesn’t work as hard as Jamie Dimon.
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Brooks is right that most of the people in that 5% bracket log heavy hours, but where he’s wrong is in failing to recognize that most of us have enough shame to know that what we do for a living isn’t really working. I pull absolutely insane hours in my current profession, to the point of having almost no social life at all, but I know better than to call what I do for a living work.
Still In There Pitching
Posted by: | CommentsI think Sarah needs to reconsider my sitcom pitch from Friday.
RNC Winter Meeting: Saving Americans from Themselves
Posted by: | Comments“These poor bastards just didn’t realize they were living in a socialist nightmare …” [timestamp 6:04]
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Another Two-Thousand Page Page-Turner
Posted by: | CommentsWe haven’t even gotten done going over the things wrong with the House health care bill, and now the Senate bill has been released. Another two thousand pages. More will be revealed this morning, no doubt.
In the meantime, let’s hope it’s a better read than the House bill:
The House bill is 2,000 pages. And it’s not exactly Michener, is it? It would have been a lot faster-paced if they’d left out the subplot about the lieutenant and the governor’s daughter.Only one Republican would vote for a health care bill that doesn’t involve blowing things up. Now, will someone please tell them that swine flu comes from the Bay of Pigs?
Republicans in and out of Congress oppose the public option. They think it means putting a stop to insider trading.
The House passed some dumb amendment limiting funding for abortions, then misspelled it as the “Stupak Amendment.” Well, now who looks “Stupak”?
There is page after page of gifts to the insurance industry and individual congressmen itemized in the bill, but nowhere for the taxpayer to add a gratuity.
Most of the bill’s provisions aren’t supposed to kick in until 2013, a year after the Mayans said the world will end — a little concession to the Chamber of Commerce.
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell complains that the bill isn’t printed on 80 lb. paper.
Rep. Michele Bachmann opposes the Democratic bill. She wants to invite Uri Geller to bend the cost curve.
And some of the pages stick together.
