Excuse me, Congressman, but my boots smell like piss and you keep saying it's raining. The indefatigable Katy Tur is not one to suffer fools gladly, but on MSNBC Tuesday, she was stuck with one insufferable one. Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger of North Carolina has thoroughly internalized his rote interview replies but apparently doesn't understand concepts like "tax cuts" or "socialism" well enough to deploy the right talking point at the right time. So when Tur asked him whether the economy wouldn't be stimulated more by tax cuts aimed at the middle class -- the folks who actually buy stuff and would create demand for products -- Pettinger's GOP-installed Reply Processor suffered some kind of ugly malfunction, and he spat out an incoherent line about how giving tax cuts to the middle class would be socialism of the ugliest sort. It's not clear whether the man is economically illiterate or just not very skilled at matching up journalists' questions with his store of prescribed lines. Probably both!
North Carolina Congressman Explains To Katy Tur How Middle Class Tax Cuts Are Socialism
North Carolina Congressman Explains To Katy…
North Carolina Congressman Explains To Katy Tur How Middle Class Tax Cuts Are Socialism
Excuse me, Congressman, but my boots smell like piss and you keep saying it's raining. The indefatigable Katy Tur is not one to suffer fools gladly, but on MSNBC Tuesday, she was stuck with one insufferable one. Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger of North Carolina has thoroughly internalized his rote interview replies but apparently doesn't understand concepts like "tax cuts" or "socialism" well enough to deploy the right talking point at the right time. So when Tur asked him whether the economy wouldn't be stimulated more by tax cuts aimed at the middle class -- the folks who actually buy stuff and would create demand for products -- Pettinger's GOP-installed Reply Processor suffered some kind of ugly malfunction, and he spat out an incoherent line about how giving tax cuts to the middle class would be socialism of the ugliest sort. It's not clear whether the man is economically illiterate or just not very skilled at matching up journalists' questions with his store of prescribed lines. Probably both!