Hat-tip to Yglesias for catching & posting(and DeLong for pointing out) former Republican Dictator-of-the-House Tom DeLay (former Republican Majority Whip of the US Congress, but actually the iron-fisted Republican "Hammer" ruler of that Congress) making his radical Right-Wing case that because "TEXAS WORKS HARDER" than other states (especially urban, northern, liberal-dominated "Blue states") it is "RICHER" than them.
OF COURSE _CHRIS MATHEWS_ gave a FREE PASS to all of DeLay's nonsensical economic claims... it was ALL the hapless Mathews could do to try to poke holes in DeLay's (and fellow Texas Republican, and current Texas GOVERNOR, RICK PERRY's) notions that TEXAS has STILL got a right to SECEDE from the United States!
American Right-Wingers - of exactly the sort that populate the Texas Right-Wing Republican Party - still assert an American "VETO" 'right' to CONDEMN, UNDERMINE, and DESTROY sovereign governments in South America - (CIA ATTEMPTED COUPS & SECESSION EFFORTS against (respectively) VENEZUELA and BOLIVIA come to mind) - but they will also assert THEIR 'right' to SECEDE from the UNITED STATES!
Presumably (like the dissolution of the former Soviet Union) TAKING THEIR US NUCLEAR WARHEADS (stored on Texas military bases) WITH THEM ???!
Well, I suppose we have to give Mathews at least SOME credit for at least POKING FUN at DeLay's (and Perry's) SECESSIONIST talk...
...but clearly, EXPECTING Chris Mathews to actually know WHICH US STATES are NET FEDERAL TAX-DOLLAR RECIPIENTS (the majority of which are "RED" states, i.e. rural, conservative states are most likely to be "Welfare Queens"!) - much less by how much - is just a bridge-to-far for the "media commentator" who got his big break shilling "MONICA, MONICA! MONICA!!!" 24-7 for months at a time back in 1998.
============================================
Delay Claims Poorer-than-Average Texas is “Wealthy” Because Texans “Work Hard”
A few bloggers have noted that Tom DeLay went on a strange neo-secessionist binge yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews. This segment of the interview in which he lays out his substantive rationale has gotten less attention. But DeLay’s conceit is that Texas is a “wealthy state” because of it’s right-wing business-friendly policies, a situation that he specifically contrasts with the environment in California, New York, and New Jersey which have allegedly impoverished themselves with high taxes and overregulation....
One problem here is that Texas isn’t a wealthy state. Its median household income of $47,548 made it 28th in the country. Below average, in other words. New Jersey is second, California is eighth, and New York is nineteenth. Indeed, of the top ten states in per capita income nine are “blue” states."
(A great read, and insightful analysis, continued here.)
No comments:
Post a Comment