Dangerous Meme Alert

Dangerous Meme Alert

by digby

Listening to tea party congressmen on MSNBC right now defending cut-go and this keeps coming up whenever Mitchell asks why they refuse to pay for tax cuts if they are so concerned about the deficit. I discussed it before and it’s really catching on now:

“We don’t think tax cuts are something that we have to be “pay for” because it’s the people’s money to begin with, not the government’s.” Greg Walden (R) Lunatic

Who does the government belong to, I wonder? And who’s supposed to pay for it?

This is a very pernicious meme the Democrats need to refute quickly and decisively because these Republicans are squawking it in unison like a bunch of trained parrots. So far,the only reaction I’ve seen from them or the gasbags asking is slack-jawed stupefaction. I don’t think that’s sufficient.

Mitchell points out that Tea Partiers make up a third of the new House majority.

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