Biden Attacks McCain's "Patriotism"

Did Bill Clinton or Al Gore once blurt this nonsense back in the '90s?:

The logic-derived questions abound.  What is "patriotic" about letting the government confiscate more of your wealth?  What great national purpose or mission or crusade will that pilfered lucre be underwriting?  What "rut"?  And is Slow Joe not implicitly equating low taxes with treason?  Is that REALLY what he wants to suggest after his would-be boss has called John McCain a liar for accurately pointing out Barry's numerous public calls for....higher taxes?

Thanks to the Bush tax cuts (2003's more than 2001's) the economy has boomed for five years, creating millions and millions of new jobs, and that growth has been sustained despite several hurricanes and Biden's own party's policy-created energy price shock.  As "ruts" go, this one is pretty darned endurable.

Which identifies the fictitious nature of the "rut" Biden is clumsily trying to portray.  It's no different than Al Gore's "worst economy in fifty years" whopper from the 1992 campaign slapped adjectively upon an economy that grew 4.2% in that year - and which the Left and the Enemy Media epiphinously discovered the day after the election and immediately dubbed "the Clinton recovery".

Yes, Senator Rogaine, some elephants really DON'T forget.  And you make it so pathetically obvious when you non sequitously blame the "Wall Street Meltdown" on....the Bush tax cuts!:

We should try to correct the problems that caused this.  And what’s caused this? The profligate tax cuts to the very, very wealthy that John wants to continue.  What’s caused this is the failure to have regulation so that, in fact — John talks about these CEOs getting these big bailout packages.

I want to call this bullshit - rest assured, it is that - but it's so lamely off target and economically illiterate that the term nonsense fits even better.  What did the Bush tax cuts have to do with the Clinton administration skewing the Community Redevelopment Act into forcing mortgage lenders to dispense home loans to customers who almost certainly could not pay them back?  The first Bush tax cut came two years AFTER this policy change was imposed.  If anything, it and its successor stimulated the economy sufficiently to stave off the subprime collapse, if anything. 

As for the failure to have regulation, that was YOUR party's work, Mr. Vice Plagiarist, not the GOP's.  Particularly not Maverick's, as he tried to "have more regulation" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac three full years ago, and it was you and your colleagues on the wrong side of the aisle - including the junior senator from Illinois - who thwarted him.

And the big CEO bailout packages - are you really not aware that two Donk ex-Fannie Mae CEOs, one of whom is not in jail only because he agreed to pare down his own platinum parachute, are economic advisors to the campaign for which you are the XO?

But they're not greedy - oh, no.  They got rich at the taxpayers' expense, the taxpayers are getting poorer because of them, but it's WE who are "unpatriotic" because we don't want you and Thug Life to stick another syphon in our wallets and suck us dry.

Understand that Regent Joe thinks he uttered a campaign-changing profundity!  And, being who and what he is, he just couldn't resist the urge to triumphantly pound the "point" into the ground:

Fired up in a room full of union members, Joe Biden angrily defended both his ticket’s tax plan and his own claim that tax hikes for the rich are patriotic, while urging fellow Democrats to stand their ground on what he said was a values debate.

Biden, speaking to members of the Laborers International Union of North America, began by saying that there is “no disagreement” between John McCain and Barack Obama on the need for tax cuts. The real issue, he said, is who gets them.

“Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,” he said. “Now it’d be different if you could make the case to me that by giving this tax cut to the very wealthy, everybody else was going to be better off. We saw what happened the last eight years when we gave that tax cut.”

Yeah, we did - EVERYBODY benefited from it through growth of employment and real wages.  Which blows this audacious attempt to tie tax increases to religious virtue straight to hell by transparently revealing it to be the false-witness bearing it is.

I'm not a Catholic - though Ed Morrissey is, and his quip about Biden "g[etting] his Catholic instruction from Father Guido Sarducci and Sister Mary Elephant" is the line of the week, if not the campaign - but has the occupant of Hairplugs One never read 2 Corinthians 9:7?:

Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Generosity is voluntary by definition; it cannot be compulsory.  And Americans are the most generous people on the face of the planet.  Unlike....Joe Biden, who according to his last ten years' of tax returns ponied up a big, fat $369 a year in charitable contributions, or about one-three-hundredth of his income.

So let's take stock: In the space of twelve hours yesterday, Joe Biden (1) misdefined "patriotism," (2) attacked the patriotism of more than half the American people, (3) attacked the virtue of more than have the American people, and (4) made himself the biggest f'ing hypocrite on the continent, aside from his running mate.

That's an awful lot to cram into a thirty second ad, but Team Sith made a yeoman effort:

Nice connection to the energy issue, and you'll remember that senior citizens are the most likely demographic to get out and vote on Election Day.  It's nice to see the humorous tenor of Sailor's August spots make a return.  That was a big part of his reeling Obama in, and hopefully it won't go away again.

This Michigan spot isn't directly tied to the Biden business, but it does make a much needed point about McCain's proposed corporate tax cut:

Driving up the tax and regulatory burdens on "Big Business" inevitably "outsources" American jobs to countries where business and labor costs are cheaper.  That doesn't make "big corporations" greedy or uncompassionate or "unpatriotic"; it makes them pragmatic and attentive to their fiduciary responsibility to their bosses: company stockholders.  Government interventions that fascistically order the private sector to act against their own interests lead inevitably to mass failures and bankruptcies.  As happened....this week with the mortgage industry disaster.

Tell me, Senators, how many Americans are going to lose their jobs, and how many more Americans are going to have their retirement nest eggs endangered, because you thought it was such a good, virtuous, neigh RIGHTEOUS idea to force mortgage banks to cough up high risk loans to the poor?  And your catch-all solution to that is...HIGHER TAXES?  And you surround THAT dumbass idea with the moral supremacist barbed wire of calling it PATRIOTIC?

Yep, there'll be a second Great Depression, alright; but only if these two petaQ'pu get elected.