Part I – The Less Government No Taxes Debate
Best line – In response to Taliban Mike Huckabee’s theme that government is bad, untrustworthy and incompetent Jon Stewart asks why then do conservatives want to trust the gonverment with tanks, bombs and nuclear weapons?
But all in all I am finding on this issue, Lower Taxes and Less Government is like so much of our debate, meaningless nice sounding jingles which so much of our social and political commentary dwells in. A well turned pert little phrase that in reality is a pile of crap.
So many examples:
Libertarians with all their cool sounding quotes to legalize drugs.
The NRA with their phraseology of putting a gun in every hand.
More recently how easy it is to give auto industry the heave ho.
It all sounds good in a simplified jingle, a cartoon or a catch phrase, but when reality complicates it all, it becomes just so much crap.
Part II – Gay Marriage and the inherent bigotry of religion.
Best Line from Jon Stewart – Religion is far more of a choice that Homosexuality.
The new NEWSWEEK did their cover story on how scripture is For Gay Marriage rather than Against it.