Doubt

Republicans want more tax cuts. Economists argue that the problem with tax cuts is that in recessions, they are mostly saved, not spent, and so have very little stimulative effect. Republicans acknowledged that and so argued to make them permanent - essentially the policy of the Bush administration.

-Carolyn Lochhead. "Obama holds GOP-only talks on stimulus package." San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2009

It's one thing to say, I have a different point of view about the priorities of this bill. It's quite another to say, I have a different priority altogether, and will use this bill to accomplish it.

I wonder which problems these men went to Washington to solve.

did you ever wish you had duck feet

If you have a pair of shoes which resemble either of these:



Place them in the trash immediately. You purchased them in a heady rush of aspiration and ignorance, and you look like a tool wearing them. Stop.

Now you may be saying, you're a tool for saying that, my shoes are awesome, and you are just words on the internet! I'm unfriending you! Fine. Enjoy being wrong. Just know that you are going to be passed over for that job in favor of someone wearing these:


Because they are shoes for cool people in a design that has lasted 200 years.

If this rant does not apply to you, congratulations! If it does, I hope you listened, and one less person is wearing duck feet.