{"id":188900,"date":"2010-07-12T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/12\/you-cannot-negotiate-with-the-insane\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:41:00","slug":"you-cannot-negotiate-with-the-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/12\/you-cannot-negotiate-with-the-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Negotiate With the Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hack writer once said that, &#8220;A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.&#8221;<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Well, John Kyle just had a bit of a gaffe.<\/p>\n<p>He just said that tax cuts never need to be paid for, just spending:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_zaQf9kl248&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_zaQf9kl248&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You cannot run a hospital with people who believe in bleeding and leeches.<sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>There is simply no basis for rational cooperation with moonbats.<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>]<\/p>\n<p>I should note that insanity is the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">best<\/span> spin on what Kyle said.  A more likely interpretation is that the real goal here is to create deficits at such a level that cuts government, particularly to social services,<sup>\u2021<\/sup> are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called, &#8220;starve the beast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/07\/jon_kyl_gives_away_the_game_on.html\">Ezra Klein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Michael Kinsley, who is evidence that mindless  contrarianism is never a substitute for real insight.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, I am aware of the fact that there are actually medical treatments that involve bleeding and leeches,most notably iron poisoning and reattaching limbs, it&#8217;s a metaphor.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">But of course, we must never <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ever<\/span> reign in our bloated wasteful Pentagon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hack writer once said that, &#8220;A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.&#8221;* Well, John Kyle just had a bit of a gaffe. He just said that tax cuts never need to be paid for, just spending: You cannot run a hospital with people who believe in bleeding and leeches.\u2020 There is simply &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,982,983,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-stupid","category-taxes","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}