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Sununu Mocks Obama, Prefers Flat Tax as "Change For the Good"

by: Dean Barker

Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 11:33:28 AM EST
Phony libertarian John E. spent some time with the Free State Project Liberty Forum last January trolling for votes from the Ron Paul crowd.

The thing I really like about the Paul people?  They tape everything. And for once we have the real John E. Sununu speaking his mind in front of a friendly audience.  No obfuscating, cloudy, SenatorSpeak here.  John E. goes full force with ridiculing Obama's campaign slogan, followed by an open admission of his dream goals for change: a flat tax and the privatization of Social Security.

A partial transcript of the comic stylings of our junior senator (apologies for any errors; the audio is not great):

They're running to offer "change that you can believe in." [laughter] ...I think I heard that line uttered by Peter Sellers in Being There.

I'm not sure what that means. And I hope over time, left or right it doesn't matter, people actually ask the hard questions like "what are you talking about?" [laughter]

Look, change can be good, change can be bad. Change for the good can be tearing up the tax code or replacing it with a flat tax, that's my preference, tax simplification, real tax reform, get rid of the loopholes, the deductions, the tax credits.

...a change can be good if it means modernizing Social Security giving workers real power and control over their own money to invest in their own retirement accounts. That is their  personal property.  That can certainly be change for the good.

Unbelievable.  And this is just from Part 2 of 5.

p.s. Interesting how Iraq war enabler Sununu doesn't spend a lot of time talking about that misadventure in front of the Ron Paul crowd, huh?
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Republicans simply adhere to a long tradition which (0.00 / 0)
considers government to have two primary functions: control the unruly to keep them from mis-behaving and supervise the orderly transfer of public assets (originally acquired by force) into private wealth.  Now that the public assets are either getting scarce (mineral leases, old growth forests, etc.) or have been contaminated by the haphazard disposal of private wastes (chemical and industrial emissions and effluvia), it's only natural that there's a desires to transfer the money assets collected by the public into the hands of those desiring to produce more private wealth.

I mean, you could say that the despoilers of our natural resources are now content to leave us with the mess and want us to hand over our money instead.  But, perhaps that would be too blunt.

In any event, when we consider the track record of our industrialists and entrepreneurs and managers of capital, it seems clear that they have been very poor managers.  Instead of transforming wastes into profit and saving capital to create future wealth, they've consumed and despoiled our resources and eaten up the seed corn to boot.  Anyone who trusts these people has to be considered a fool.

There IS a Peter Sellars (4.00 / 2)
He does modern operatic pieces: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. He's worked with the composer John Adams (once of Concord) and he did a stint as artist in residence at Keene State.
a great and original talent (4.00 / 1)
Even in college (Harvard), where he staged Romeo and Juliet in the Adams House swimming pool.

Peter Sellers with an "e" was also a great and original talent. But this "Being There" joke really doesn't make much sense to me -- Barack Obama as Chauncey Gardiner? I see what the wingers are trying to say--that people project their hopes and dreams on Obama--but please.

Right-wing humor: another oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp.  

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Chance the gardener (0.00 / 0)
"Peter Sellers in one of his final roles-as a man without friends without family,and without a past"


"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
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Thanks. (0.00 / 0)
I know of that one too, but I thought both of them had an "a".  Typo fixed.
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