Jonah's Very Principled Stand

Rarely do we get such naked admissions out of the supposed "thinkers" of the right, but good ol' Jonah Goldberg steps right up to the plate and lets fly about his thoughts on Obama's recovery efforts:

I Don't Want To Pay For It

That is, by far, my driving attitude in all of this. I just don't want to pay for it. It's not that I don't want government to do nice things for deserving people [....] It's that I think most of Obama's ideas will not work, will be a waste of money and will hurt the economy. And, flatly, I don't want to pay for it. [....] I will look for every means within the boundaries of the law to minimize what I pay in taxes and I make no apologies for that whatsoever.

Ideas on how to do that are welcome.

Five year olds who've been told to eat their vegetables have come up with better reasoning than this. And seriously, to end with "Ideas on how to do that are welcome"? Comedy gold! Take a good firm stand and then admit you've no idea how to accomplish it! Perfect right-wing reasoning!

So here's the obligatory "shoe's on the other foot" comparison: as the country ratcheted up its rhetoric and preparations for war in Iraq and over a million people filled the Washington Mall, how many demonstrators thought the final, bottom line for their opposition was "I don't want to pay for it"? I thought so.