I'm Rubber, You're Glue

Mirror, mirror

You need to go read this piece by John Chait.

My favorite part was this:

Likewise, James Capretta, a conservative pundit and advisor to Paul Ryan, accuses Obama of having no plan. Read carefully to the third and fourth sentences:

And what does the president propose to do about this problem? Exactly nothing.

His plan for deficit reduction can be summed up briefly: tax hikes and defense cuts.

I have inserted no ellipses here. Capretta first accuses Obama of proposing “exactly nothing,” and then — in the very next sentence! — accuses him of proposing to raise taxes and cut defense spending. That’s not “exactly nothing.” It’s not even sort of nothing. It’s something.

I really don't know if I will be able to stand another 7 months of Mitt Romney and the GOP treating objective facts the way a baby treats a diaper.

The whole reason I started blogging was because I was infuriated at the wholesale attack on the Enlightenment ideas of reason and rational solutions.  (And this blog would SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!!)

I may wind up face-palming myself so many times and with such vigor that I give myself repeated concussions.