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So this morning, SRF extraordinaire Mr Grouchy Old Cripple directs us to this hysterical piece of attention whoring by someone called Michael Lind, who is apparently a senior fellow at the “New America Foundation”, which sounds very impressive, doesn’t it?

It is a shame that apparently there is very little understanding of logic, history or economics at this place!

Lind’s major contention is that the only reason Republicans voted against the gigabuck porkfest inaccurately known as the “Stimulus Package” is that Republicans are racist, opposed to a black president because they are racists, they are racist members of a racist neo-Confederate cabal that want to bring down America by opposing expanding the size of the Federal government, because they are racist racists!!

No, really! He really says this:

The vote about the stimulus package was not about economics. It was about nullification. It was the bipartisan Confederacy sending a message to the rest of America, stricken by the greatest crisis since the Depression. That message? DROP DEAD.

Those who think that the Democrats could have won over more Republicans by making more concessions do not understand the neo-Confederate/Dixiecrat mentality. There was no one to bargain with on the other side. The Republiconfederate “alternative”—a joke of a bill consisting almost entirely of tax cuts—would not be taken seriously by any mainstream conservative economist. It was pure provocation.

I find Lind’s knowledge of mainstream conservative economists very limited! Perhaps he has not heard of Larry Kudlow? Smart guy, likes tax cuts, has his own show on MSNBC? Ring a bell?

This is not the argument of an adult. This is the mindless shrieking of a panicky imbecile who has run out of arguments and has resorted to flinging his own feces.

An adult’s argument would more resemble countervailing facts, such as pointing out another time in history where hugely expanded government spending has reduced the length of an economic downturn. Be careful with this one, Lind, as it has never, ever happened! Consider the Great Depression, where FDR prolonged the suffering with Keynesian redistribution. Other examples will occur to the fair minded student of history!

I’m afraid this is merely a foreshadowing of how things will go in the next four years. The Directives of The Messiah Obama are not to be questioned, lest you find yourself wearing the red R of RACIST! The thoughtless followers of the Big O have no facts, no arguments, and no understanding of history. They only have their fragile self worth, embodied in an unaccomplished facade of a symbol of a man.

If Lind feels the need to hurl insults instead of laying out facts to prove his hypothesis, then perhaps this post will be terribly confusing to him. Fine, I can play that game too:

*ahem*

Michael Lind, you are a liar, a coward and a dolt. You either have no understanding of modern economic theory, or you are willing to disregard facts to make a cheap partisan slur. Either way, you are an inconsequential, self-aggrandizing, talentless assclown who couldn’t pour piss from a boot if it had instructions on the heel. Please go die in a fire.

Regards,
pdb