So, I came across
this profile of
Keli Carender, darling of the 'tea-
baggers,' in
The New York Times*; it just goes to show that you can be hip & trendy (nose-ring), creative (actress), smart (math teacher), and young and
still be a
conservative ideologue. In other words one need not be a dour old reactionary to be, well, a reactionary.
Poor Ms.
Carender, who attended a public university, whines and complains that someone might 'take her money' to pay for health care, and seems wholly seems oblivious to the irony. I guess
taxpayer subsidies are outrageous affronts to liberty only when they benefit someone else? Ms.
Carender's 'intellectual' inspiration, old Tom
Sowell is a crackpot all of whose work is supported by the right wing Hoover Institution. But enough of the
ad hominem observations. Ms.
Carender finds them offensive having in the prior breath dismissed those who disagree with her as purveying "the usual hyperbole and empty, hateful rhetoric of people who presume themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to anyone who does not share a liberal, progressive or left-wing ideology." Irony upon irony, I suppose.
Despite what she might have surmised from reading
Sowell, there are good reasons why deficit spending is the proper response to a depressed economy. And,
of course, far and away the primary cause of the deficits that she so dreads is the hair-brained tax policies and foreign adventures initiated by the Bush administration.
Ooooppps! Is it that Ms.
Carender is simply not smart enough to figure this out? Or does she inhabit
not a reality based but an "
alternative bizzaro universe"?
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I've just come across this profile at npr too.
