Dana Perino: Be ready to "eat your spinach" so the wealthy can keep their tax cuts

[Amerigo Vespucci]

December 29, 2010 06:30 AM
Dana Perino Thinks We Need to Get Ready to 'Eat Our Spinach' and Be 'Serious' About Cuts to Social Security

By Heather



http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/dana-perino-thinks-we-need-get-ready-eat-o

Former White House spokesperson Dana Perino who I'm quite sure is living comfortably enough that these austerity measures she's touting won't ever affect her life style informed the rest of us that we'd better take Paul Ryan's "Roadmap" seriously and be ready to "eat our spinach" so the wealthy in this country can keep their tax cuts.

Of course, no mention of spinach eating for the rich was involved in this conversation. Tucker Carlson proved that he can be every bit as a big of an annoying hack as Sean Hannity filling in for him this week and the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore thinks that we need to do 15-20% spending cuts across the board to eliminate government programs to get our deficit under control.

I'm quite sure after listening to his blather for years now that he doesn't think any of those cuts should come from our military industrial complex and instead should come from those pesky government agencies that do things like making sure our food isn't poisoned, or regulating the fat cats on Wall Street or anything else that prohibits corporations from running amok and protects the working class.

What these talking heads like Moore of course ignore is we already got a full dose of trickle-down, regulation free economics from the Bush administration and we see how well that worked out for most of us. Some "spinach eating" for the wealthy and those who outsource our jobs is exactly what we need but the yappers in the media are going to keep up the drum beat that the have-lesses in this country who don't want to sacrifice sufficiently are just somehow not patriotic or "serious" or "adults".

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. Dana Antionette. nt

[Occulus]

2. There is no Dana. Only Zuul.

:D

[TheMuse]

24. Fantastic!

[neverforget]

3. Republicans to America: drop dead.

[woo me with science]

4. It's coming, folks.

"Shared sacrifice." :grr:

[niceypoo]

16. Unless you are rich...

Then you get a pony!

[woo me with science]

21. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. nt

[rgbecker]

5. Lots of room to cut far more than 20% here:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/defense_chart_30.html

[pa28]

6. Only some will be eating spinach.

Assuming Dana is in the top bracket she'll be enjoying a huge tax cut as will the other two grinning idiots in the picture you posted.

[glitch]

25. Happy Zombies. They're zombies for the NEW(tm) American Century. nt

[DCKit]

7. Dana Peroxide = Dumb Fraud nt

[The Gunslinger]

8. we shoud start by cutting her government pension

[marmar]

9. Nobody's going to confuse her with a rocket scientist.

nt

[HughBeaumont]

10. Three Total Asshat Idiots.

Tucker and Dana . . . are really just too stupid to insult.

Stephen Moore, however, will go down in history as "The Man Who Is 100% Fucking Wrong about Damned Near Everything". Here is his bibliography:

It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years with Julian L. Simon (Cato Institute, 2000) ISBN 1-882577-97-3

Bullish On Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger (Madison Books, 2004) ISBN 1-56833-261-0

The End of Prosperity with Arthur B. Laffer and Peter Tanous (Threshold Editions, 2008) ISBN 1-4165-9238-5

Still an Open Door? U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy (American University Press, 1994)

Privatization: A Strategy for Taming the Deficit (The Heritage Foundation, 1988)

He is also the editor of Restoring the Dream: What House Republicans Plan to Do Now to Strengthen the Family, Balance the Budget, and Replace Welfare (Times Mirror, 1995).

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tavalon]

11. What's that, Perino Pet Chow?

It kind of looks like you haven't been eating anything lately. Anorexic, much?

[HughBeaumont]

18. She kind of looks like Cindy McCain if you squint.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. So does Bruce Vilanch.

[jmondine]

12. I'll eat my spinach and then go all "Popeye" on her ass.

[bullwinkle428]

13. Make that "E. Coli tainted spinach" after the Repukes decimate

everything in the federal budget related to food safety! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[gratuitous]

14. Oh no, see, that's all fear-mongering, it is

I thought this was a serious policy discussion, too, but I have been reliably informed that all this is just fear-mongering. There's no plan to cut social security benefits or raise the retirement age or any of that other stuff. And if you keep saying that, you will be a Very Unserious Person in the deficit reduction discussion. So just watch it.

[martymar64]

15. She'll have a reserved spot on the tumbrels when they take he rto the guillotine.

I'd do pay-per-view to watch that.

[HopeHoops]

17. Who the hell can afford spinach? Grass clippings are a luxury now.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Obama appointed Perino to a cush gig on the Broadcast Board

of Governors. So he looked out for Dana, that's for sure, even as she spits venom at him.

[Raine]

22. Uh NO thanks

I don't like spinich, refused to eat it as a child and sure the hell would swallow it as an adult, FUCK that SHIT! :grr:

[Raine]

23. "Advice" from the IDIOT who didn't know what the Cuban Missle Crisis was. nt

:silly:

[gkhouston]

26. Anybody fool enough to offer us "spinach" is going to get a plateful of third rail. n/t

[Rex]

27. Rich people laughing at us poor working stiffs. There backs will never

break from manual labor, fucking worthless people should never make 50 million a year. Don't care what they do for a living.

[Hannah Bell]

28. dana perino = bimbo

[Warren DeMontague]

29. How about we "get serious" by cutting the military budget in half & ending the drug war?

Oh, noooo, couldn't do that... :eyes: