If you want the perfect storm of partisan media bias and laughable reality-twisting, look no further than this front-page article from the Washington Post.
Heck, don’t even bother reading the article, just read the headline and subheadline.
Democrats Set High Goal Of Sweeping Fiscal Reform
As Senate Opens Stimulus Debate, Sacrifices Become More Urgent
“Sweeping fiscal reform” in a bill that costs almost one trillion dollars and laughably claims that STD prevention and paying off groups like ACORN is economic stimulus?
And who, exactly, is sacrificing here? The bill actually increases spending to nearly every single social program we have and rewards every Democratic donor group you can imagine. There is not a single shred of sacrifice in this bill at all unless you count the picket books of our children who are being sacrificed on the altat of Democratis greed.
It’s a shame that something like this passes for objective journalism today. The article itself isn’t any better. You want to know the actual goal Democrats have set for “fiscal responsibility”? Here…let me show you the two concrete goals in the antire article.
But White House officials are talking to lawmakers about setting up a process to tackle the issues within a matter of months and plan to hold a “fiscal responsibility summit” by early March.
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At the moment, discussions are focused on whether to name a special panel to make the difficult decisions that would be required to right the nation’s finances. Key senators in both parties are backing a plan put forward by Conrad and the Budget Committee’s senior Republican, Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), that would create a task force of lawmakers and administration officials. The task force would wrestle with the details of Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and the tax code, and deliver a reform plan to Congress for a vote later this year.
There are your “high goals”, folks. Democrats want to have a summit and a committee sometime in the future, perhaps March. It should have occurred to the reporter who wrote this story that maybe the Democrats weren’t setting a very high goal considering that they couldn’t even set a firm date to hold a freaking summit meeting.
But what of the the people who do not appear anywhere in this article. I’m talking about conservative Republicans, the kind who “orchestrated a lock-step rejection” (oh no. No bias at all in that phrase, eh WaPo?) of the Democratic bribe-o-rama. Could the reporter not find one in her Rolodex or e-mail address book? Jim Demint actually has a working alternative to the porkulus bill that doesn’t cost a trillion dollars and would create millions of desirable jobs, but somehow he couldn’t be found. Did he go on vacation to a place where there is no phone, no e-mail, nor text-messaging, and no Twitter? It’s a lot more likely that they were excluded on purpose because if someone had interviewed them, they would have blown the entire premise of the story all to tiny little pieces.
The Democrats we have running this country are not fiscally responsible. They never will be. It is not in their progressive political DNA to do anything but accrue power to themselves by slowly bleeding your pocketbook and your freedoms dry. They do indeed want a better country, but they want it only on their terms and with them pulling all the strings. To do that, they have to control the argument, which is why this ridiculous piece from their fellow progressives at the Post appeared on the front page today. Mark my words, you will hear the words “fiscal responsibility” coming from Democratic lips a whole lot in the next couple weeks. They have to somehow convince yout hat even though they want to put you into debt to the tuns of some 7 thousand dollars, they’re really looking out for our country’s financial health. This article is the first appearance of the new Democratic talking. Bet on plenty more.
Tags: Big Government, Democrats, Government Bailouts, Jim DeMint, Progressives, Taxes, Washington Post
