The Left still has nothing to say

One week after an election that was most notable for the fact that the Democrats had no major issues on which they ran, it seems that nothing has changed. I checked lefty issue central (otherwise known as MSNBC) last night and found that there was still a lack of both substance and truth. On one show, I heard again (for what seemed like the ten thousandth time) that the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 were tax cuts for the rich and that these should not be allowed to continue. It is funny that the left keeps making this claim as it has now been thoroughly discredited. We all know that the cost over the next decade of continuing the tax cuts for the middle class is approximately 3.3 trillion dollars. The cost of continuing the tax cuts for the rich over that same time is about 700 billion dollars. So the Bush rates gave tax cuts that were almost five times larger to the middle class than to the rich, even though the rich pay 40% of all the income taxes. This means that the middle class got much larger tax cuts than the wealthy. Given that, I have to wonder why the Democrats continue with their endless mantra that Bush's cuts were for the rich.

On another show, I heard that noted economic "expert" Rachel Maddow explain that the ban on earmarks was a sham that would not affect the budget. Although Maddow had a solemn looking "expert" come on to agree with her assessment, she never bothered to explain why the ban was a sham. Maddow did, however, explain that the amount of spending included in earmarks is small and that it really will not cut the deficit much. Any idiot listening to Maddow would know that the earmark ban was the first step by the GOP in its budget reduction plans. Maddow ignored this.

The simple point is that a week after the election, the Democrats still had nothing to say. I had suspected during the election campaign that the Democrats must have had issues that they wanted to deal with, but which they were avoiding during the campaign. Now, I have begun to doubt this. It truly seems that the Democrats have no idea what they want to do other than to stay in power.