Rep. Jim Moran’s interesting, blunt interview
Virginia Democrat Jim Moran gave an an interesting interview where he doesn’t pull any punches. I’m glad someone is saying these things. Some excerpts:
On President Bush:
The only actual news that he reads is the sports section. All the national news, all the opinions that he gets have been filtered, and it goes to his daily briefing that has already been pre-screened to give him what he wants to read. He doesn’t read any books, and he doesn’t talk with people that don’t already agree with him. He’s surrounded himself with ideological sycophants. And the biggest ass-kisser of all is Dick Cheney.
On fixing Social Security:
…we spent another $220 billion just to eliminate taxes on the top three tenths of a percent. Two hundred and twenty billion dollars over ten years. The point is that if we had taken that money instead, if we had taken that $220 billion, it would have gone a long ways toward making it solvent. It’s a matter of priorities….we’re cutting more income taxes, dividends and capital gains taxes, three-quarters of which go to people who make over $200,000 a year. And yet in the same budget, we cut $70 billion in taxes, by further reducing the dividend and capital gains taxes, most of which of course are paid by the wealthiest. These guys just have no shame.
