"I really don't understand why newspapers feel they must go through the charade of writing seriously articles (which Milbank did not, to his credit) about people who walk around promising that a society can have no taxes -- except the regressive ones of course -- and no deficit and debt. It would be like science journalists taking seriously someone who said we could eliminate greenhouse gases and burn as much coal as we want.
Actually, that's a pretty good analogy. No science writer would ever bother calling up such a person to quote him, or attend his press conferences. Yet if the person is a politician -- and we have politicians in this country who say pretty much precisely that -- they have to be taken seriously, because of who they are. It's rather ridiculous."
Michael Tomasky
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