Deficit Hawkery Defined
Evan Bayh: “[t]here’s no bigger deficit hawk in Congress than I am.”
So, of course, he must favor letting Bush’s unpopular upper-class tax cuts expire, right? Ha ha, just kidding.
In fairness, there’s not necessarily a contradiction here; Bayh didn’t, after all, define his terms. If we define “deficit hawk” by inference, I think Bayh fits the bill:
Def·i·cit Hawk (adj.) 1. A political figure who favors deeply regressive tax cuts, unlimited defense spending irrespective of efficacy, and high deficits that can be used an excuse to cut (or, better yet, to oppose the enactment of) any program that might possibly help a poor person. 2. A loathsomely pompous fluffer of plutocrats.
I think we can all agree that there are indeed few bigger deficit hawks in Washington than Evan Bayh.
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i’d actually respect these asswipes more if they would just be honest about it and admit: i am opposed to deficits if they result from spending associated with programs that benefit those earning less than $250,000, and i am in favor of deficits that result from high levels of defense spending and low tax rates on upper-income individuals.
Adjective or noun? /pedant
Well, at least THIS useless Democrat is getting out. I wish some of the rest of them would follow – ‘paging Nelson, paging Ben Nelson!’ Of course, he’ll start campaigning for President in the new year.
This guy Bayh, I won’t miss at all. But my greatest disappointment in a guy who is leaving is Dodd. For a guy who had a pretty good track record, for the most part, over his career, he’s leaving as a corporate whore – I call them Whoreporatists. Bayh was always one of those.
Bye, Bye, Bayh. You will NOT be missed.
And F-U Dodd. If I have anything to say about it, your very young children will know their late Dad as a Whoreporatist. Because when his country needed him most, he sold out.
Deficit hawks remind me of an ex roommate I had. Said ex roommate lived beyond her means in a four bedroom suburban ranch house, getting a lot of assistance from her ex husbands. She pretended to care about saving money, other than the tanning bed she owned, the SUV she hardly drove, her gas guzzling Chevy sedan, and buying expensive vegan/organic food at Whole Foods. But gods forbid I should want to do laundry more than once a week, that’d bankrupt her!
It’s the same with deficit hawks- focus myopically on stuff that is trivial, ignore the biggest expenses.
“Deficit hawk” is now and always has been code for “fuck the poor” and give the money to the rich.
If the tax cuts are extended, that will save me about $7500. So what? We need to return to the 2000 tax rates just as Greenspan has said.
Greenspan said that the U.S. needs to do something now to deal with budget deficits and it must do something very soon. He explained his anxiety is so high that “I’m coming out in the first time in my memory” in support of higher taxes in addition to reduced spending, including allowing the so-called Bush tax cuts to expire.
Well, this will be Obama’s chance to make a stand. If he stands his ground, all the tax cuts expire automatically, just the way the Republicans passed the bill. Nothing happens without his signature.
[...] Hawk defined: LGM Def·i·cit Hawk (adj.) 1. A political figure who favors deeply regressive tax cuts, unlimited [...]
Hope you’ll excuse the
audacityarrogance of a non-regular commenter flinging poo on my first-ever comment here, but……may I humbly suggest that, in contexts such as this:
if you were to substitute “middle-class person” for “poor person,” you’d be both more accurate and more politically effective?
One of the biggest problems confronting Democratic candidates and officeholders, and especially the more progressive ones, is that the Publicans, the super-rich, and the corporatocracy have, over the last 30 years, successfully convinced far too many middle-class and working-class Americans that their hard-earned money is being taxed-and-spent on the undeserving poor, especially those of color.
This is turn is exactly “what’s the matter with Kansas” — a very large part of why so many middle- and working-class Americans vote against what progressives and Democrats believe to be their own economic self-interest. (Whether the recent and current crop of Democrats actually have been working in the economic interest of the bottom 98% is a whole ‘nother rant; I’ll save that for another day.)
Using terms such as “poor people,” “the poor,” and “the underprivileged” in these contexts is a direct reinforcement of the Pubbie narrative — and in the case of many of the policies and programs under discussion, not even accurate, as there are often more middle-class Americans than poor ones who stand to benefit.
We (rightfully, of course) deride those Dem’s who support the wingnut memes; Sen Buh-Bayh being one of the worst.
So why would we then turn around and in the very next breath do the same ourselves?