Witches
by digby
Both the White House and billionaire conservative Peter G. Peterson are holding “fiscal responsibility” summits dominated by calls to cut our most vital safety-net programs. We are countering this with our Virtual Summit on progressive approaches to reducing the federal deficit while protecting our social contract with our elderly, poor, disabled and unemployed.
You can watch the president’s deficit summit right now.
But read this depressing article at Huffington Post first. I think this says it all:
“The frame of the debate is between those who think the witches have
taken over the entire community and the whole lot of them should be
burned and those who think there are only a few witches and burning
just a few of them would be enough to appease the demons,” said James
Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government at the
University of Texas. “There are a few of us operating safely removed
from the bonfires who maintain there is no such thing as witchcraft.”
Sadly, somebody said the other day that David Axelrod was madly waving polling results around the White House that said people really want to kill some witches.
So much for that reality based community thing.
.