“Tea Party Plans Its Own Debt Panel” reads a headline in today’s New York Times (6/27/11), where reporter Kate Zernike described efforts by the well-financed right-wing lobbying group FreedomWorks to organize a debt commission that will come up with yet another right-wing fiscal blueprint.
They don’t have a plan yet–they’re merely talking about having meetings that would produce a plan: “It aims to have proposals ready by January, when the presidential campaign will draw even more attention to economic proposals.”
Well, they’re off to a good start in the Drawing Attention department. Remember, the People’s Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was never covered in a hard news story in the Times (Extra!, 6/11).
Apparently there is a need for another Paul Ryan-type budget plan. Just talking about organizing to come up with one is good enough to score a New York Times story.
The paper didn’t cover the People’s Budget when it came out–which was, you know, an actual thing, not a series of committee meetings that might produce something someday.
Well I’d say it’s time to boycott the NYT’s and all of her corporate sponsors!
I can’t wait to see that document. aAnd isn’t it rich to see that the Nincompoop (Ryan) and his family will benefit financially from his own reactionary, regressive “fiscal” plan? Like a wounded toad, the Nincompoop wailed and moaned and complained about the unfairness of it all, the cruel facts like pins nailing his webbed feet to the board of public srutiny. And then there’s the Bachmanns: more treachery on the part of the cruel liberal media who bothered to point out that Marcus and Michelle both profit from govermnent largesse. And no, Mrs. Bachmann, you fuckin’ twit–John Quincy Adams was not a nine-year-old Founding Father. And, yes, sweet Marcus–those hot, gay men need to be disciplined, absolutely, and you’re the man to do it. Every night, night after hot night.
What an embarassment for the Times. Also the brand new documentary about the Times, “Page One: Inside the New York Times”, seems to be nothing more than a puff piece, since the director, in a showing at the AFI Silver Docs film festival last week, indicated he had cleared at least one scene with one of the Times staffers featured. The movie also makes no mention of the Times withholding its story on Bush’s illegal surveillance system until after the 2004 election, while it had the goods on him before Bush won his second term. In addition, the film makes no mention of numerous analyses of Times coverage by either Media Matters or FAIR. Hardly a fair and balanced view of the U.S.’s paper of record
I bet it will include such goodies as sending your children, not theirs, into the fields to take the place of all the Mexicans they have put in private prisons, and creating great new jobs such as washing out the Koch’s undies for the minimum wage of nothing less expenses. And also giving full support to all capitalist adventures such as Rick Scott’s new brain fart of giving Florida tax money, NOT FEDERAL MONEY, to business to build that high speed railway. How much you want to bet?
Does anyone still read the NYT? It’s not even fit to wrap dead fish!
I have read and studied the progressive budget. Interesting pice of work.What they never explain is what country they want to implement it in. Certainly not here.Here it would simply amount to a government imposed redistribution of wealth.Higher taxes….same old claptrap the Dems are peddling.
Ya know Im glad the tea party is throwing in.But the real question is where is the presidents plan?We have seen proposals.The CBO this week said they can not judge the presidents “proposals “because they have no specificity that would allow the CBO to even begin the process.Your side is just belly aching.DO SOMTHING!And forget the ridiculous “peoples budget”Obam may love it…..but even he is not dumb enough to go anywhere near it. Political suicide.So we will be left to debate the party’s plan not in power till……….doomsday?