E.J. Dionne: Call the Tea Party crowd’s bluff ("...Obama is not really all that liberal..")

The Columbia Daily Tribune / The Washington Post ^ | January 17, 2010 | E.J. Dionne

[Smokin' Joe]

I personally despise the way the noble liberal idea has been devalued, but face it: Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism, to the point that most liberals dare not call themselves by their own name.

Conservatives haven't discredited Liberalism, the Liberals have.

[victim soul]

“This is why his announcement of new fees on the biggest banks to recoup the costs of the bailout comes just in time. So does the idea now floating around Congress to pay for a reduction in the sweep of the tax on so-called Cadillac health plans by applying the Medicare tax not only to wage income but also to investment income.”

Taxing investment income? Don’t working families have 401K from those nasty big corporations? Don’t labor unions? Don’t small businessmen? Don’t state governments invest for their workers pensions? etc etc etc

Now Working American families who do try to save and invest in companies through Wall Street are going to be socked by
Taxing investment income?

[grey_whiskers]

” And what institutions are held in lower esteem right now than those represented by the words “Wall Street”? “

Congress.

The Washington Post, for whom E.J. Dionne is writing.

(Oh, and the New York Times and MSNBC and CNN).

All fixed.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[Lancey Howard]

This guy Dionne sure loves his LSD... Whew!
Since when is being a communist “not really all that liberal”?

[Lancey Howard]

Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism

And oh how easy that was! All it took was telling the truth.

[Beckwith]

Re: Obama is not really all that liberal..

I agree. He’s a Red!

[RoadTest]

” I personally despise the way the noble liberal idea has been devalued, but face it: Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism”

Oh, BOY. Can I take THAT apart!

Liberalism has spent its career discrediting itself, culminating in a morph into Soviet-style Communist oppression!

“Liberal” used to mean kind generous, free-thinking - all the good things we associate with a Democracy or a Republic.

But by their crooked, sleazy and sordid political behavior, “Liberals” have dragged the very name in the mud. It now means mean-spirited, vengeful and selfish Socialism that seeks to enslave the people.