Scott McClellan Interview...... <<<crickets>>> Come on guys you can attack him like the rest of the fringe right.

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You would have a valid point if he was trying to sell the source as non-partisan on one particular issue he agrees with. Instead, he acknowledged the partisanship and used it to emphasize his point.

Blues,
Dave

This was a pretty good interview that touched heavily on that point. It's worth the listen if you get the chance and are interested.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91061991

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Funny how you're so rah-rah on the place when it agrees with you, Professor.

Gotta love those situational ethics.

I think you failed to detect the sarcasm, since "bastion of commie-pinko-liberal-socialism" was too subtle for you.

I think you don't see the irony of using a source you complained about being partisan once it agrees with you...as I said - more situational ethics, but nothing unusual.

You would have a valid point if he was trying to sell the source as non-partisan on one particular issue he agrees with. Instead, he acknowledged the partisanship and used it to emphasize his point.

Blues,
Dave

I think Mike is trying to tell us that as well as having a partisan and distorted interpretation of the data, he believes the Heritage Foundation is also fabricating the data

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Funny how you're so rah-rah on the place when it agrees with you, Professor.

Gotta love those situational ethics.

I think you failed to detect the sarcasm, since "bastion of commie-pinko-liberal-socialism" was too subtle for you.

I think you don't see the irony of using a source you complained about being partisan once it agrees with you...as I said - more situational ethics, but nothing unusual.

You are really misusing the term, situational ethics here. Situational ethics has to do with applying a given moral imperative differently in different situations. It has nothing to do with whether you blindly follow or blindly disagree with a certain media source. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that the sources you usually disagree with get it right once in a while.

Hmm... you may be right, since he's still on the "it's all Bush's fault" bandwagon regardless of the source.

My apologies, Professor - you weren't using situation ethics.

Mike
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Funny how you're so rah-rah on the place when it agrees with you, Professor.

Gotta love those situational ethics.

I think you failed to detect the sarcasm, since "bastion of commie-pinko-liberal-socialism" was too subtle for you.

I think you don't see the irony of using a source you complained about being partisan once it agrees with you...as I said - more situational ethics, but nothing unusual.

But since you're such a fan, now... I'm guessing you don't disagree with this, this, this and this, then?

You confuse data with opinion. I agree with their raw data. Their interpretations of the data and their opinions are so clearly wrong that even a Republican should be able to see the errors.

Maybe the difference between data and opinion is also too subtle for you?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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ROFLMFAO. Well well. It looks as if jet lag, not looking at this data for some time, and my own spreadsheets' format got the better of me. EJC did produce a budget surplus for three of eight vice two of eight years. I glanced at the wrong column. Oh darn. BFD.

The national debt did not decrease once during his tenure - or after for that matter - so as executed there was no surplus for any of them.

Maybe if health care were socialized, we further punish US corporations for success, we increase taxes, make SOX a bit harsher, make it easier for workers to unionize and harder for them to disestablish unions, and we allow the NEA to design a national education bill and pass it sans change, that would balance the budget. I think not.

Non-discretionary spending that will hit us in the near future has been a problem allowed to metastasize over the past several decades. Congress and not the president has the power of the purse, FYI.

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