With or Without Representation
By In addition to the other absurdities (and what shocking bias that the Emm Ess Emm would…cover a presidential campiagn!), you have to love what Reynolds considers worthy of quotation:
Hundreds of Nebraskans chanted no taxation without representation in protest of increased government spending spawned by the stimulus bill at the state capitol Saturday.
Very compelling — it is just like the Revolutionary War!. Except that 1)this is would be taxation with representation, and 2)unless the teabaggers are composed of people making in excess of 250 grand a year, most of them are getting tax cuts. (I suppose you could make an argument that because of increased spending these tax cuts will just lead to future tax increases, but leaving aside the implausibility of attributing this line of reasoning to the teabaggers, it certainly never occurred to Reynolds when he was celebrating Bush’s deficit-funded upper-class tax cuts.) Jeebus, this is pathetic stuff.
As a bonus, it’s nice to get this compilation of Reynolds’s prescient, unbiased coverage of the 2006 elections. Sample shorter verbatim: “LARRY KUDLOW says that Bush is turning things around for the Republicans. It does look that way now…”