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bobbyw24
08-31-2011, 04:51 AM
I’m submitting a memo to my bosses at Rolling Stone this morning, asking for permission to skip all coverage of the Republican primary season from this point forward. Why? Because Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann have just summed up the entire Republican storyline with perfect precision, through their respective responses to Hurricane Irene. There’s really not much left for any pundit to add, after this weekend’s quips.

Michele Bachmann says Hurricane Irene is God’s way of telling Washington that it is spending too much.

For his part, Ron Paul says hurricane relief isn’t the responsibility of the state and we should stop using tax dollars to rescue people. Apparently we should go back to our year-1900 disaster policies, which included watching 6,000 people die in a hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas.

What else does anyone need to hear? There are two powerful wings of the Republican Party heading into 2012, and these two comments sum them up perfectly.

The Ron Paul camp believes government has no role at all.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/gop-hearts-end-times-insanity-20110830

bobbyw24
08-31-2011, 04:58 AM
You can reach Matt at M_TAIBBI@YAHOO.COM

Czolgosz
08-31-2011, 05:03 AM
Wtf is this mess?

bobbyw24
08-31-2011, 05:04 AM
Taibbi showing the "Ron Paul Camp" some love. :eek:

Austrian Econ Disciple
08-31-2011, 05:11 AM
That wasn't love. That was the same bullshit every Statist spews. Somehow if the Government isn't involved, then it is impossible otherwise. Ron's argument isn't even that the State should have no role, it's a bit more nuanced Taibbi. In any event, they would claim because we do not want the State to grow agriculture that we want no agriculture at all! It's absurd and highly disingenuous and is epidemic in this country. Thank-God for our Socialist school-system!

bobbyw24
08-31-2011, 05:14 AM
That wasn't love. That was the same bullshit every Statist spews. Somehow if the Government isn't involved, then it is impossible otherwise. Ron's argument isn't even that the State should have no role, it's a bit more nuanced Taibbi. In any event, they would claim because we do not want the State to grow agriculture that we want no agriculture at all! It's absurd and highly disingenuous and is epidemic in this country. Thank-God for our Socialist school-system!

I was being facetious.

YumYum
08-31-2011, 05:15 AM
Matt needs to take off his concrete blinders and follow what is happening in our government. FEMA, just like every other government agency, is a joke. Look at the incredible waste our government is responsible for in these stupid wars. Here is the real insanity:


Panel: Widespread waste and fraud in war spending

WASHINGTON (AP) — As much as $60 billion in U.S. tax dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade due to lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, according to an independent panel.

In its final report to Congress, to be publicly released Wednesday, the Commission on Wartime Contracting said the waste could grow as U.S. support for reconstruction projects and programs wanes, leaving Iraq and Afghanistan to bear the long-term costs of sustaining the schools, medical clinics, barracks, roads and power plants already built with American money.

full article..http://news.yahoo.com/panel-widespread-waste-fraud-war-spending-053533054.html

sluggo
08-31-2011, 05:22 AM
Taibbi is hopeless.

Speaking of Matt Taibbi (http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/08/30/meet-mark-ames-the-exile-who-created-the-false-koch-brothers-conspiracy-theory/), Breitbart published an interesting piece on him and his BFF Mark Ames yesterday.

http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/08/30/meet-mark-ames-the-exile-who-created-the-false-koch-brothers-conspiracy-theory/

Taibbi isn't quite as demented as Ames, but he still sounds like a pretty nasty piece of work.

Eric21ND
08-31-2011, 06:07 AM
Or perhaps let the private sector insure some of these people. Europe insures against flooding and the country of Denmark is build on flooding.

bobbyw24
08-31-2011, 06:09 AM
Nice email from a Ron Paul supporter at the Daily Paul:

http://www.dailypaul.com/176873/matt-taibbi-gop-hearts-end-times-insanity#comment-1857882