listening to NPR, an interview with President Obama started. Luckily for other drivers (since road rage can be deadly), I decided to listen to a CD instead. (If you don't know Peter Case, you should.) Anyway, NPR's hype last night and earlier today about their exclusive interview revealed the new stuff that BHO was talking about. During the year to come, he wants to reform the tax code, simplifying it and lowering rates. In theory, that's okay or maybe even good. But in practice, given the DP's growing political division and weakness, if anything actually passes through Congress (like a kidney stone?) it would likely involve yet more tax cuts for the rich. And BHO's scolding of his own party and kowtowing to the GOP suggests that he hasn't learned one of the basic Laws of the Barnyard: once the hens succeed in wounding you, they won't stop pecking and will instead peck more. The GOPsters don't want a center-right coalition with BHO or anyone else for that matter, but a right-wing one. And whatever happened to pecking back?
Meanwhile on the Barnyard Front, words of wisdom: "as they say in the countryside, some people's cows can moo, but yours should keep quiet." -- Vlad "the Impaler" Putin. He did make a constructive point: Julian Assange should receive the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Jim Devine / "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." - John Kenneth Galbraith _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
