Michael Ryan Wonders if Common Sense will Prevail when He Has None Himself

Re: "Will common sense prevail?" from the February 7th edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Once again, Mr. Ryan is freaked out about the budget deficit.  Yet, a few weeks ago, he suggested an income tax moratorium.  As I've written before, he has no credibility on this issue because he actually thinks eliminating taxes would be a viable policy.

It's true the U.S. government needs to reign in spending, but it's necessary to increase taxes as well to help balance the budget. Increasing taxes is politically unpopular, virtually dooming any political party that supports this as a method of reducing the deficit.  Until we get politicians with the guts to increase taxes and cut government spending, the budget will continue to spiral out of control.  

Note that Mr. Ryan mentions Social Security and Medicare as programs that cost too much, but he makes no mention of the illegal, immoral, and unnecessary war in Iraq.

Conservatives just have no integrity.  Helping out our fellow man is a waste of money, but blowing him to smithereens is untouchable spending and not even included in the official budget.  How obscene.  

The related editorial below Mr. Ryan's, written by Charles Krauthammer is entitled "The Great Peasant Revolt."  This is in reference to the Tea Party movement.  The Tea Party just paid Sarah Palin $100,000 to make a speech.  I doubt peasants can afford to pay that much just to hear a nervous schoolgirl criticize our president for having a good education which is what she did when she said, "We need a commander and chief, not a Harvard Lawyer."  The statement was received with cheers.

This quote and the positive response proves that Tea Party nuts think intelligence and education are bad things.

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Re: "Greedy union fat cats are behind first lady's anti-obesity campaign," by Michelle Malkin from the February 5th edition of the Augusta Chronicle.

Ms. Malkin writes about the "evils" of school lunches in this column.  She's critical of the SEIU, an organization that represents school cafeteria workers.  What's she afraid of--that a school cafeteria worker might make a dollar?

Ms. Malkin has no credibility whatsoever.  Mr. Ryan should be ashamed of himself for letting this ridiculous woman spew her stupid opinions on his page.

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Mr. Ryan has yet to retract his factually challenged column which I noted in my last blog entry. BTW, I contacted Alan English the managing editor of the news department.  He informed me that he has nothing to do with the editorial page, so I retract my statement suggesting he approves of Mr. Ryan's plagiarisms.

There.  I admitted I was wrong about something.

Will Michael Ryan?