Who's Got the Tired Old Rhetoric?

Raising Taxes, a bogeyman the Left has shied away from for some time after feeling the public's backlash time and again, is an issue that has returned with a vengeance among the Talking Heads. MRC on Monday had a who's who of those in the Media beating the drum and carrying loads of water for the pro-tax movement on the Left. Nina Totenberg, Ms. "I don't think the Media is Biased except for Fox News" and lifetime NPRite, remarked that President Bush's September 19th speech would have been an excellent time for him to say the following

'look, I'm for tax cuts, but we need a Katrina tax, we need to really pay, to do this and to pay for it.'

When pressed by Gordon Peterson on Inside Washington if she wanted more taxes, she said bluntly "I want more taxes, yes." Don't think for a moment this little charmer represents the fringe view. Her views are what every left-leaning NPR listener hears and parrots daily.
MRC also caught this lovely exchange between Charles Krauthammer, Nina Totenberg, and Evan Thomas, which speaks volumes about how the press will be spinning the desire to tax us back into oblivion

Charles Krauthammer: "Our crisis of today is Katrina, probably a couple of hundred billion, and I think you start by canceling every earmark, all 6,371 earmarks, special pork spending, in the newly-passed transportation bill. It's only $24 billion, lunch money, but it's a rather ample lunch."

Nina Totenberg: "It's lunch money, but, it's lunch money, but if you canceled the tax cuts, you'd get $225 billion."

Krauthammer: "You'd wreck the economy. That's the difference."

Totenberg: "You wouldn't. You wouldn't. I mean, this economy was, is doing just fine, thank you, but it is about to sustain incredible blows because of the energy business, and if we don't, if people who are richer in this country don't pay more, we can't take it out of the hides of poor people, which is what the conservative group that is actually in Congress that's put out earmarks of what they think we ought to cut -- Medicaid, Medicare. That's money we, you know, for the poorest segment of our society."

Host Gordon Peterson: "Even Republicans are getting edgy about this, aren't they?"

Evan Thomas: "Yeah, sort of good. I mean, there's a split in the Republican Party. Republicans used to be, once upon a time, for fiscal conservatism, and there are a few of those left, and they're starting to murmur more, and, you know, people forget Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes. It's not, there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes."

Yep, they've got that finger right on the pulse of America. A pork-fest like this is what they've been waiting for for five years to say that not only were the tax cuts needing repealed and now they have a case, but that there's also a case for more taxes. I mean, it's not written in the Bible or anything. Oh, and Evan, for that patronizing anti-Christian crap, you can put that remark where the sun don't shine, beautiful. You're about as fit to speak for the people of this country as Eugene Debs or Jack Reed. Of course, you'd likely see that as a compliment.

This is what they want from you, they want you and me to open our wallets and let the government suck it dry because, after all, we're children and they're the parents who gave US the allowance, right? Washington might as well be its own separate alternate reality, because that's how the people that run us from there live.

Eleanor Clift, wearing her "Hope, Arkansas birthed my male love god" T-shirt, spoke on the McLaughlin Group such wisdom as this

"The obvious solution is to roll back the tax cuts. It's going to cost $500 billion over ten years to relieve people, couples, with estates of over $5 million. Do they really need that money? I don't think so."

Thanks, Eleanor, for telling other people they don't need their money so you think it should be confiscated at gunpoint. You're a peach. Isn't it time for your nightly call to Bubba C's 900 line?

Even the media's straight arrow Tim Russert seems to be jumping on the tax bandwagon, as he said this on Meet the Press to feed his panel of tax lovers.

"The President's been very resistant to talk about tax cuts or certainly the repeal of them. Is there any possibility he would say, 'We have these massive deficits. I believe in the war in Iraq. It's going to bring democracy to the Middle East. I believe in rebuilding New Orleans and helping the people of Texas. But to the people in my income bracket, I have to freeze the tax cut I had planned'?"

Everybody get that? The plan is this. Get the media talking about how inevitable it is, and presumably the sheeple will all fall in lockstep behind the left to demand the Feds take their money! That's it, that's the ticket!

I'm praying very hard for reality to smack these boys and girls hard in the face. Alternate media, leftists losing elections, nothing seems to shake them out of their fantasy land. The American people DO_NOT_WANT higher taxes...period. Let that sink in, Sunshine boys and girls. Otherwise, you doom yourselves to a well-deserved extinction.