Dana Milbank identifies the "far left"
January 26, 2010 10:21 am ET by Jamison Foser
Dana Milbank wants a debt commission, but doesn't expect to get one:
The debt commission is expected to be voted down Tuesday morning, as foes on the far left and the far right unite to form a status quo supermajority.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a columnist suggest that a "supermajority" holds extremist political positions, but I suppose it's possible, as long as you view "far left" and "far right" as absolute descriptions of positions on a theoretical political spectrum, rather than descriptions of distances from the mainstream.
So who is the "far left" in Dana Milbank's world? Take a look:
On the left, the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, MoveOn.org and other groups redoubled their opposition, even as President Obama gave the commission his last-minute endorsement on Saturday.
Oh.
I guess someone's been watching Fox News.
Of course, at Fox, anyone not Fox is "far left"
The left has played this game for decades which much greater effect than the right because the left had a virtual monopoly on the news for so long. The right is now doing the same thing to others that the left has done to everybody else for so long. If you want people not to identify you as far left, then don't demagogue them in the same fashion. If their ideas are bad, then debate them on the merits of the idea rather than just blithely dismissing them as "far" fill-in-the-blank. It's just another way of saying that another person's ideas don't matter, so I don't even have to attempt to try and understand their reasoning. It's just another technique to shut down debate.
Don't "you guys" understand that?
Furthermore, you do realize, don't you, that your "defense" of this practice is claiming that "we're just as bad as you!"? Do you not aspire to be better than your opponents? Well, no, of course you don't. You enjoy wallowing in your mud hole and merely want to drag everyone else down with you.
People like Milbank seem to think that any money given to the Federal government is promptly buried in the ground; never to be spent. The purpose of the stimulus package (other than to bail out large segments of Wall Street) was to increase the amount of money to be spent on jobs and businesses. The money comes from increasing the supply, thereby raising long term debt, but also increasing the amount of money in the system for businesses and jobs.
Our economy needs money to grow and reducing the spending may help bond traders, but at the expense of regular people trying to survive. But, since Dana is likely to never have to scramble for a job, and since all his friends are, like himself, well-off, using slogans rather than analysis (as long as you work for a publisher stupid enough to keep printing your nonsense) is ok by him.
Pathetic...