In a surprisingly good article for him, The Moose actually applauds a Democrat for doing something other than turning further rightward (The Moose's favorite Dem is Lieberman):
The Moose awards Senator Reid a hearty "Bully!" for breaking Beltway etiquette and offering the chief economic alien some straight talk,
"We had a $7 trillion-dollar surplus when Bush took office. Now we have a $3 or $4 trillion-dollar deficit. That's, in fact, what Greenspan should be telling people."
Then, Harry Skywalker brought Darth Vader back to earth with this choice comment,
"I think he's one of the biggest political hacks we have in Washington."
Senator Reid, live long and prosper!
Now, Starship Commander Greenspan would like to boldly go where no other Fed Chairman has gone before by endorsing a backdoor consumption tax so his wealthy cronies can further shelter their riches. It is very clear that in his dotage, Greenspan is returning to his cultish, objectivist Ayn Rand roots.
Perhaps, he is now lives on Planet Atlas Shrugged.
Beam me up, Scotty!
The mixed Star Wars/Star Trek references are just too much to let go by. He should really pick one or the other, it's like he's trying to be cool with hip cultural references (but seriously how hip are old SciFi references?). Moose, just so you know (yes, I know he's not really reading my blog, just humor me):
- Skywalker and Vader are from Star Wars the hugely successful movie from 1977 (I saw it in the theater during its initial run that year. I was 8.)
- "Live long and prosper" "boldy go where no" and "Beam me up, Scotty!" are from Star Trek the campy and fun TV show-turned-movie-franchise.
Now that we're clear on that, I'll await his next post telling all us crazy Democrats we need to move even further rightward if we ever want to succeed in politics again. Yeah, 'cause that's worked so well this far. Criminy. For the best dissection of that topic go read Steve Gilliard's post about it.
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