"Today marks a lot of tragedy... Tragedy comes in threes. Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards' passing and Barack Obama's announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits."
-- Christine O'Donnell
"There's more to being smart than noticing how some shit is like some other shit." - Chris Case
Christine O'Donnell isn't very bright, even by Tea Party standards, but she has a point about Obama, taxes and Pearl Harbor. It was pretty ballsy for the president to agree to cut taxes on the super rich, during wartime, on the anniversary of our entry into World War II.
Our economy is a shambles, but at least our irony is cheap.
It was also pretty ballsy of the Republicans to threaten to shut down the government to get those tax cuts, during wartime. In 1942, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the American government raised the tax rate on income in excess of $200,000 to 82 percent. This was a compromise. Roosevelt's first offer was to take it all.
You see, America was at war.
There's probably a word for the kind of person who wants his countrymen to kill and die for him, but won't even pay peacetime rates for it, but that word isn't "patriot."
It's not "traitor," but you can see traitor from here.
I guess I can believe that Christine O'Donnell could lose the thread between loving one's country and wanting to pay for its upkeep. She's a moron. I believe when she drives she makes car sounds. But what's everyone else's excuse?
If you know someone -- maybe even a family member -- who can't make the connection, you don't have to argue with them this holiday. Just show them this Disney cartoon:
It has a talking duck in it. It might even be simple enough for a Tea Partier to understand.
Watching the cartoon did make me wonder why the Left doesn't run PSA-style ads to counter the Right's "gov't is the problem". Imagine the impact of a visual version of everything the anti-gov't crowd would have to give up. One version could show a guy in his pajamas on a rant against taxes / big gov't, to his wife or at his TV. The next morning, the guy gets up and everything he had courtesy of gov't would be gone. He gets in his car and drives to work - same thing. At work - more of the same. More changes when he gets home from work; his parents and his in-laws are now living with him and his wife and adult children - no SSI for the elders or education assistance for the kids. The ad could end with the guy happily preparing his 1040 or "ranting" to his wife about all the direct and indirect benefits they receive through gov't spending.
She is so much the perfect poster-girl for what our members of Congress are today, most of them, on both sides of the aisle, and wherever they put the chairs for the independents.
If anything she would be a little too chirpily naive, which would be no problem. Just add a little jaundice make-up. After she had pocketed her first half-dozen "memory-aids" from lobbyists she would have the correct facial expression.
As for her equating the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the death of Elizabeth Edwards and Obama. She did get them in the correct order:
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise. The death of Elizabeth Edwards was less a surprise; she did have cancer, after all. And Obama going lap-dog, again, was, of course, no surprise.
The Bing Videos suggestions above had one entitled "Christine O'Donnell's Masturbation Stance."
What? Has WikiLeaks found an e-mail that tells what position(s) she uses?
Let me guess.. she was against it?