It’s Friday, ya bastids!Happening Now: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is holding old-school filibuster on the tax deal. Watch it live
Some Democrats are starting to come around to seeing the tax cut deal in a more positive light. Nobody likes paying ransom, but it’s hard not to feel good when the hostages start coming home. The tax cut deal is like one of those artifacts they drag up from an old shipwreck. The tax cuts for the rich and the estate tax are the ugly layer of barnacles. After you chip those away, and you realize you may have something valuable on your hands. A person making around $50,000 gets about another $1,679 out of this deal. The average millionaire gets an extra $140,000. And the millionaires who die… well, they really make out. Essentially, Obama agreed to give a lot of money to people who don’t deserve it, in exchange for being able to give a lot more money to people who really need it. The bottom line is that it’s important to keep the middle class from sinking, even it means allowing the super rich to rise into the stratosphere.
But let’s end the week on a light-headed note. And that means Sarah Palin. Barbara Walters recently asked Sarah what she reads. I’ll tell you one things she reads—memos from staffers telling her she needs to come up with a list of things she reads before that Barbara Walters interview. Sarah said “I read a lot of C.S. Lewis when I want some divine inspiration.” C.S. Lewis wrote everything from children’s books to literary criticism. Something tells me Sarah isn’t talking about his literary criticism.
Palin also said she reads Newsmax. If you don’t know what Newmax is, chances are that you’re pretty well-informed. Newsmax has a radically conservative stance. It’s a news site for people who don’t really want to know what’s going on. And it gives them their lies served up to them in bite-sized chunks. Basically, Newsmax is for people who want to remain completely ignorant, but who don’t want to put a lot of work into it. Think of it as the USA Today for people for whom “USA” is a chant, not a country.
Then Sarah asked “Why would it be that there is that perception that I don’t read?” Oh, I don’t know, Sarah. Maybe for the same reason there is a perception that Kirstie Alley doesn’t run marathons. From appearances, there is simply no evidence for it.
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Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show last night spotlighting the shameless blocking of healthcare benefits for 9/11 first responders by Senate Republicans…
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