The hypocrisy of passing a massive tax cut (sorry, tax cut extension) bill while sitting on this comparatively small spending bill is baffling, even if we are willing to concede that this is indeed a matter of timing and deadlines, as Senator Thune suggests in the Stewart clip.
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Yes, Stewart is typically sympathetic to the Left at the expense of the Right (this time included), and no, I don't typically share that portion of his views. But he is also one of the more fair journalists that we currently have, which is in all honesty so pathetic that it's almost laughable--Stewart himself once responded to CNN's Tucker Carlson's criticism of his journalistic integrity by saying, "You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls".
It's a fair response, and it makes it only that much more damning that Stewart is indeed one of the few "journalists" left who seems to be willing to investigate and point out when and how the discussion in Washington has veered off the rails.
In this case, Stewart skewers a group of politicians who have spent years spewing fear-mongering rhetoric surrounding terrorism and 9/11 (don't forget the debate over the "Ground Zero Mosque", which Republicans vehemently opposed in the name of honoring the 9/11 victims), only to turn their backs on some of the most central figures of that memorable date, simply because political tides have shifted.
When you try to sit down and make sense of the entirety of the Republican or the Democratic party platforms, and reconcile the often-contradictory stances that each party ends up taking, it's hard to take either side particularly seriously. That's why I identify with neither party, and spend my days hoping and wishing that some day good governance will overtake political wrangling as the order of the day in Washington.
[Washington Post]
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