steven pearlstein at wapo turns the tables

and he turns them BUT GOOD. wow. this is dynamic

i am STILL smiling. really, this IS GREAT. please read it!

(what i really want to know is; are any of the town hall screamers going to read this? are they going to see we can do to them what they do to us BUT in a reasonable, quiet and intelligent manner? hmmmmm. well i'm not really sure the town hall scenesters DO read. i think they get ALL, every bit of their info from o'wrongly, flush, glenn and the like. i'm not sure THEY do any reading either)

The GOP's Top Chef Starves a Beast and Poisons a Debate
By Steven Pearlstein
Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, this week revealed a secret Republican plan that would end up eliminating all federal farm subsidies; closing down Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks; selling off the interstate highway system; and canceling Head Start, subsidized school lunches and the entire college loan program. The plan came to light as a result of an op-ed piece this week in The Washington Post in which the party chairman committed the GOP to spending an ever-increasing share of the federal budget, and the national income, on Medicare. When combined with other Republican promises -- to balance the budget, protect defense spending and never, ever raise anyone's taxes -- the inescapable inference is that the government would run out of money for every other domestic program sometime around 2035...........