Political Karn Evil

Welcome back my friends
To the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
--Emerson, Lake & Palmer

President Obama's speech yesterday on the importance of extending the payroll tax cuts two more months, while a critical number of House Republicans were holding out to extend the cuts thru 2012, was the height of political carnival. The president trotted out stories of the hardships that people would have to burden without the two month extension. One person he cited, for example, claimed that he would have to forego nights out for pizza with his daughters if the extension were not passed.

Seriously.

Of course, the president did not take the time to explain why two more months of pizaa with the kids was superior to the 12 more months of pizza with the kids that House Republicans were proposing.

The portion of the bill (which passed this am) which received nearly no media attention the extension, once again, of benefits for the unemployed.

Those who slurp this stuff up deserve the despotism being heaped upon us.