Showing posts with label bob inglis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bob inglis. Show all posts

Monday, March 10, 2014

A conservative discovers externalities

It's always shocking when a free market conservative discovers that enterprises externalize their costs in order to profit at the expense of society:

What some of us haven’t considered is the possibility that the biggest subsidy of all is being able to pump pollutants into the air with no accountability.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/08/3981103/climate-change-is-a-conservative.html#storylink=cpy
But kudos to those who finally do.

Hmm, what could happen if he'd question his other long-cherished assumptions?

Maybe we're better off with him trying to explain reality to the wingnuts who wouldn't reelect him.  I know they won't listen to me.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Consider the source

Even a hard right-winger thinks the teabaggers are crazy and bigoted and around the bend:

Instead, he remarks, his party turned toward demagoguery. Inglis lists the examples: falsely claiming Obama's health care overhaul included "death panels," raising questions about Obama's birthplace, calling the president a socialist, and maintaining that the Community Reinvestment Act was a major factor of the financial meltdown. "CRA," Inglis says, "has been around for decades. How could it suddenly create this problem? You see how that has other things worked into it?" Racism? "Yes," Inglis says.
(h/t metulj on KnoxViews)