Bill Maher Nails Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan suggests that we ought to take a look at regulations that are hampering job growth, and Maher says, "You're trying too hard to be a conservative. No one's buying it. Might as well try to be a straight man."

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[ilindah]

why did he own Andrew? he should have owned the black dude for regurgitating ignorance about deficits, etc and sounding dumb as hayelllll

[firstonethrough]

watch funny + truthful video:

Ron Paul questions Obama on Letterman

[Thelookoutslookout]

Maher's show is reliable in it's lineup of idiots, both left wing and right wing.

[spader49]

Any government 'spending' rests on taking money from the private sector. The government's got no money of its own. The question is whether the government or private sector can allocate resources better, calling a bill a 'stimulus bill' would ipso facto stimulate anything, not being in favour of the government doing something (like educating those with special needs) does not mean you are not in favour of those objectives. Falsification of other people values and means is a common democratic tool

[Mystylplx]

@graysonTW

I'm sure there were some well written letters among those that could read or write at all. One of the main jobs of the DOE is to make sure that most everyone can read and write.

[graysonTW]

@Mystylplx; if you are telling me that high school graduates today, on average, are better educated than the average high school graduate before the Dept. of Ed. was dreamed up I believe you are dead wrong.

Look up some records on salvaged letters from 16 and 17 year old Civil War soldiers to their girlfriends, mothers, etc.

the "illiteracy" you refer to was due more to the hard times; kids quitting school to help support large families, than it was to an ineffective ed. system!

[Mystylplx]

@graysonTW

There were a lot more uneducated people before the dept. of Education. A lot more illiteracy. A lot fewer college graduates. It wasn't rebutted on the show because it was too dumb a comment to bother rebutting.

[graysonTW]

"infrastructure"........is this chump serious?

"infrastructure" wasn't real important when compared to CORPORATE BAIL-OUTS!

[graysonTW]

"walking around ignorant and unemployable"

how are they walkin' around now, bill?........that would be "ignorant and unemployable'!

"people got educated in this country BEFORE the Dept. of Education existed"

did anyone notice there wasn't one word of rebuttal to this comment?......must then be TRUE!

[BrotherAtticus]

@CullTheLivingFlower There are many things that I'm "not a fan of," but I still acknowledge the constitutionality of those things.

I also can't accept the rich privilege argument over schools, because the popular new sense of entitlement will spill into college education as well, and then private colleges will be in an awkward situation. Nothing is solved by lowering everyone's means to the least common denominator.

I think there's a lot to be said for the Constitution.