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Mick Arran

Mick Arran
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I've done everything from recycling to teaching in a pre-school. Most recently I was for 10 years an acting and theater teacher as well as a pallet builder. I read a lot and I'm an old man who remembers the distant past with somewhat more clarity than this morning's breakfast. I've been blogging for a decade and I don't do "light". If you're looking for recipes, self-promoting displays of items made for sale, titillating stories about how I was a pimp for an afternoon, or the beauties of toasters, you've come to the wrong place. Check the Front Page.

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JUNE 21, 2010 2:34PM

Arrogance on Parade: Alan Simpson Hates You

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The Kill Social Security Commission has been having regular meetings they regularly refuse to discuss the substance of, apparently, according to Alan Simpson, because we're just too dumb and too brainwashed by the Left-wing mafia to understand anything about the problem that he doesn't know anything about, either, until Pete Peterson tells him what to think about it. (Via Avedon)

 

 

Of course, he's making fun of questions he isn't giving Alex Lawson a chance to ask because he's already decided that anything any lamebrain plebian says is stoopid because only morons disagree with Giant Genius Pete Peterson, but that's OK because in not answering he uses answers that show he wouldn't know what the answers were even if he understood the questions, which he wouldn't. Viz:

ALAN SIMPSON: We're really working on solvency… the key is solvency

ALEX LAWSON: What about adequacy? Are you focusing on adequacy as well?

SIMPSON: Where do you come up with all the crap you come up with?

And this is who Obama picked to advise him on the complications of the SocSec tangle. A bimbo with no more intelligence than the fire hydrant he pisses on who is contemptuous of anyone who isn't rich, white, and rich. (Did I remember to mention "rich"?)

I'm not a bit concerned.

Really.

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My gawd. These are the people with our future in their hands and they can't see further than their chauffeur's nose.
And who else do we have to thank Wyoming for? Dick Cheney. WASPWORLD is still alive, but it certainly isn't well.
I used to have grudging respect for this guy. He blows right past the cost of war and tax breaks for the wealthy. Another example of Our Rightist Agenda, Come Hell or Oily Water
Pete Peterson is a douchebag when it comes to Social Security. Anyone for cutting $1T of fraud, waste, and abuse out of the Defense Department if you're that concerned about the deficit?
Typical hit piece on an honorable man and emblematic of why he got out of politics in the first place. Without solvency you won't have a sustainable program, so it doesn't matter a damn as to adequacy if it is an unworkable solution. It is the need to assign dollars and cents again policy matters and it gets shoved aside by venomous hit pieces coming from BOTH sides of the aisle seeking to blame the other for the reason we're in the fiscal mess we're in when, in actuality, it's a bipartisan cluster screw that has been going on since the dawning of the so-called "great society."

You'll get your attaboys inside the echo chamber that is OpenSalon but this is nothing more than a hugely disrespectful hit piece on one of the more respected senior statesmen in the country.
Gee, wooly, if you like a cranky, arrogant, ignorant pissant like Simpson, I'm betting you looove Joe Barton. That would figure.