Yesterday, McSame pulled out all the stops to tout the same old money-for-the-rich, jack-squat-for-everyone-else tax plan. This time, replete with the happy news that he had 300 economists who had signed on to the plan.
The trouble is, that these supply-siders hadn't actually signed on to McSame's economic plan:
But as it turns out, there's a catch. As Ben Smith reported, "The statement [signed by the economists] leaves out two big chunks of McCain's economic argument: the gas tax holiday and his promise to balance the budget by the end of his first term - there's literally nothing in the release that mentions the deficit or national debt."In other words, the economists didn't endorse his economic plan; they endorsed his plan after taking out two of the more transparently stupid centerpiece ideas of the plan.
Doesn't that tell us quite a bit? The McCain campaign couldn't even get like-minded economist allies to endorse his economic plan without quietly allowing them to ignore two of the proposals McCain claims to take seriously?For that matter, here's another question. For the next four months, how many times will the McCain campaign and his media base argue, "This economic plan must be pretty good if it's been endorsed by over 300 economists"? If anyone's willing to set an over/under, bet on the over. Trust me.
There's just no amount of bs that McSame won't employ. When in doubt, lie. He doesn't know a thing about economics and this is too important a moment in history to trust a dishonest fool to steer the economy. America ain't buyin' it.