Friday, July 23, 2010

REALLY enjoyed this comment in response to Paul Krugman's column in the Times this morning. It's so, well, Coulter-esque:

Karen Garcia
New Paltz, NY
July 22nd, 2010
11:43 pm

Those Bush tax cuts and their vibrancy sure made life a lot better for us hoi polloi, didn't they? Conspicuous consumption by the wealthy just fills me with vicarious joy. I get a thrill every time I see a Mercedes Benz commercial on TV, because I know that every purchase will be for the greater good. According to Mitch McConnell and his friends, we're just so darned ungrateful for being trickled down upon. I await those golden drops of Republican beneficence with baited breath.

The rich folks are getting nervous that their selfless gift of not paying taxes is about to run out — and (gasp!) they're actually starting to cut back on their spending. There was an article right here in the Times just a few days ago about sales of expensive toothpaste tube squeezers unexpectedly increasing. Before you know it, we'll see chauffeured limousines in Walmart parking lots.

It's getting so bad that a record number of millionaires are running for state and national office this year. Otherwise, things just won't get done. Good politician help is so hard to find.

But the most daunting event had to be when not one, but two Abercrombie and Fitch stores in New York became infested with bedbugs recently. The carriers apparently were frat boys who had been reduced to slumming in lower-end shops.

The resurgence of the ultimate frat boy, George Bush, cannot come soon enough. Just don't remind the GOP that it was Daddy who warned about voodoo economics. If you asked Mitch McConnell, he'd probably say Poppy Bush is just so yesterday. It's Junior we want, and Junior we must have.