Sometimes, I can’t help but be amused by where the divisive tactics of recent years have taken us.
Here’s Bryan at Hot Air, going off about something called “the Patriot Corporation Act”
Setting that aside, by defining some corporations as patriotic, you’re necessarily defining others as unpatriotic, and based on economic decisions they’re making and often being forced into making by the tax and legal environment that’s forced on them by the idiots in Washington.
Let’s just play with words for a second, shall we?
[…] By defining some people as patriotic, you’re necessarily defining others as unpatriotic, and based on ideological positions they’re taking and often being forced into making by the post 9/11 politics of fear that’s forced on them by the idiots in Washington.
Amazing how easy that was to do.
In terms of labels and the left vs right, isn’t it interesting how terminology is only a problem for the side that currently has the “un” attached?
I imagine the irony of complaining about Obama’s use of the word “patriot” coming after his opening smear line is lost on him.
The Constitution he’s indignantly referring to has something to say about the limits of a government’s power over its citizens, but I guess pointing that out means I love terrorists.
Hot Air, indeed.
That said, I suspect that Obama’s proposal could be considered protectionism (because of tax treatment) and might violate some of our trade agreements. You know, it’s lovely to say “we should manufacture things here!” but since we as a country have demonstrated unequivocably that we’re not willing to pay for that, most of what I hear from politicians on this stuff smacks of grandstanding.
Hi John — leaving aside the silliness of the patriots and unpatriots… no, I’m not particularly convinced this Senate Act is a particularly good plan. OTOH, all I’ve read about it came via the Hot Air link, and I can hardly say it was.. um… without opinion.