Frank [the Crank] of the NYT Has Nothing to Say, So He Moans and Says Nothing.

We are always anxious to study and digest the facts as presented (and frequently misrepresented) by Frank [the Crank] Rich[1]. Frank Rich is well known for his uncanny ability to crank out sophomoric dogmatic leftist brats with sausage-machine precision even when they apply to nothing in particular. He is an artist. Without exception, as always, we are compelled to read to about how the right wingers have bungled the job of government in the last few decades. He can also identify a pratfall when it happens. [2] But, that was a specific and targeted attack on Clintoonery. We all know that Hillary is finished and the NYT celebrates their switch to Obama.  That is a victory for the right if nothing else important happens this decade.  She mumbled about the war.  No war but always abortions.

As we examine the instant egalitarian minutiae that generate the latest political proclamations from the New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[3], this being today, we get to dissect an interesting polemical essay on leftist economics of sort: McCain must be associated with a stupid economy.  Of course, politics is never assumed to be based on simple truths (or any form of truth for that matter), but that does not prevent a flurry of newly hatched rationales for hike taxes be left dormant or unexplored or go uncelebrated. We expect little other than tax whoring propaganda and leftist narcotic dreams in essays of the NYT, but the exercise is frequently amusing to watch. Today, the ultimate doom of the economy is presented by another pedestrian article in the Times. What else is new? Raise Taxes again??

So, let us have some fun:

The Whines from the Times continue like road kill as if morphing into a more luscious shade of brown in the warmth of the day.   The pejorative title even rings the bells of political history and elevates images of Clintoonery:

“THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the dust this week while they chase Barack Obama on his global Lollapalooza tour. Were voters forced to actually focus on Mr. McCain’s response to our spiraling economic crisis at home, the prospect of his ascension to the Oval Office could set off a panic that would make the Indy Mac Bank bust in Pasadena look as merry as the Rose Bowl.”-- It’s the Economic Stupidity, Stupid By Frank Rich[4]    [Emphasis] is mine in all quotes.]This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise stated.

‘Twas Hillary what was done left in dah dust my man. This is a propaganda tactic: correlate the present political issue or person with some successful political slogan of the past and force a nonexistent association in the minds of the disnimble. It actually works.  Bush lied—people died.

How about an example from the rabid left to compare with the McCain nostrum here? Now, for a comparison in contrasts we might consider the frolics of the sorry racist Chuckles Schumer[5] who violated his sense of duty [and probably some federal laws] by publishing a negative government report on the big bank Indy Mac so he and Frank could threaten and panic the public with an actual bank run and hope for more political power from the ensuing chaos. Frank shares that quirky smegmatic smile with Schumer on this effort. They probably have a lot in common.

One wonders where the NYT’s criticism on the economy was buried while objectively contrasting the Schumer Case[6]with current events.   Did McCain sink a bank in recent memory? We can suppose that stupidity and economics must work in some harnessed context so as to exclude deplorable acts as obvious shouting fire in a crowed theatre.  As long as you reside on the far left, you can celebrate our enemies, publish sensitive materials for political reasons, give away the tactics of nuclear submarines and pander to the ballot box stuffers. No criticisms will surface from the left to ruin the essence of your salmon pate and steamed broccoli. We can demand some form of narrow precision and conduct for Republicans while ignoring such public degenerates as Patrick Kennedy[7] and his worthless, murdering, drug-besotted alcoholic relatives. This fool nearly crashed into police car while in an alcoholic and drug-induced stupor and got a courtesy ride home for his fine work. How many votes did he miss while in detox? No matter, he is a leftist icon and way beyond any hint of reproof. So, let us blame the sour economy on McCain.

We can mumble on for a while and search for his salient point, if there is one:

“Mr. McCain still doesn’t understand that we can’t send troops to Afghanistan unless they’re shifted from Iraq. But simple math, to put it charitably, has never been his forte. When it comes to the central front of American anxiety — the economy — his learning curve has flat-lined.”

A Rule!

There is no law that says that there is any need to conserve the number of troops overseas unless it was picked, freshly and aromatically, from the fresh pigeon droppings of 5^th Avenue in the city. As FDR suggested, just keep the draft going if you run low on troops. A loss of 400,000 dead and as many wounded and maimed was no political barrier to war for Democrats in those days. The draft just kept humming along. Of course, they were aiding their bedfellows in Moscow, but that is another story.  We need a citation here on this rule.  This sounds suspiciously like the zero sum theory [8] that keeps the liberals in tight thongs, LSD and weed.

Nothing new yet………we can keep searching:

“Mr. McCain’s fiscal ineptitude has received so little scrutiny in some press quarters that his chief economic adviser, the former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, got a free pass until the moment he self-immolated on video by whining about “a nation of whiners.” The McCain-Gramm bond, dating back 15 years, is more scandalous than Mr. Obama’s connection with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”

This is a wild scrounging episode for the Times. Where will it end except in a impassioned plea for higher taxes?

Somehow, we shifted from the economy to John McCain’s lack of knowledge of economics. Are they related? Does McCain make fiscal policy?  He does advocate tax hikes, so we can infer from the negative evidence that John is a loony. Can we, now, with the license of the New York Times, blame McCain for the debt and high oil prices? Why not? That makes perfect sense to a liberal. Can we wonder how the money gets budgeted and spent by passing appropriations bills in our federal republic and then ask: who has the majority in both houses?? Oh! Democrats! Schumer and his friends? Who voted on those appropriations bills? Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid? Really? Teddy Kennedy seems to have sobered up long enough to vote on some too.

How do we pay for the Economic Stimulus?? Any Democrat willing to talk about that? The Dems now want another one before we know if the first one worked yet?? Spend Spend Spend.

Getting right along:

So, now we conveniently time-capsule the ugly racist Jeremiah Wright and sweep his disgusting racism and filth out of political sight? Love makes time pass and time makes nasty leftist political happenings pass.  Can we merely affix this theorem to similar phony religious racists like Jesse Jackson or Otis Moss or Calypso Louis Farrakhan[9], all heroes of the left, and put some 15 year statute of limitations on issues? Time heals the Time’s ailments? Maybe we can now forget that old Joseph P. Kennedy announced that democracy was finished as he admired Adolph Hitler in the late 30s?

O’Bozo[10] and Michelle’s close ‘involvements’ with Jeremiah Wright and his hate-based trash-talking congregation of Chicago’s Trinity United Church actually exceeds 20 years.  Can we perform a political stretch here for a quickie fix? Let us temporarily assume 15 = 20. That works. Perhaps Frank has slipped a digit or two here in his political calculations or has difficulties in manipulating simple numbers. Could we wonder how long B. Hussein had admired William Ayers[11], who used bombs to attack our government with toasting and noisy praise from the left now and then? Didn’t that go back 40 years or so? One can wonder if 40 are greater than 15 in leftist arithmetic. It depends.

Not surprisingly, Frank has nothing to say of importance in the rest of his little screed. Did anybody detect any whining here? Is the Old Gray Lady a kennel of whiners?

Does Pelosi whine? Liberals are never guilty of economic stupidity like Social Security, HUD, The War on Poverty, The Great Society, Welfare, Bosnia, Somalia, high gas taxes, etc.

The Times can produce better stuff than this. But, we shouldn’t be too cross with Frank as his neurons are apparently sagging from the strain of age and the exhausting tautological escapades of the left.  Get the Old Red Lady [12]back for a comparison and some more fun.  No Economic Stupidities here!

rycK

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