[warning: strong language]
I try to keep an even keel, but stuff like this gets my blood to boiling.
BEGALA: Well, there are some good things in the tax bill being voted on in the Senate today, specifically tax cuts for the middle class. But one provision of that bill shows the true heart of the Republican Party in the age of Bush, and it's not a pretty sight.
The bill takes away the child tax credit from 9.2 million of the very poorest children in America, while giving $13 billion in tax breaks to corporations. That's right. The rich get billions. The middle class gets a little something. It is, after all, an election year. But the poor, and I mean the poor, families making less than $10,750 a year, will actually lose some or all of their child tax credit. Sorry, you're out of the game, but thanks for playing.
The savagery, selfishness, really sinfulness of the Republicans hurting the most impoverished children in our country while helping huge corporations is just stunning. Friends, if this is compassionate conservatism, I guess Dick Cheney is Mr. Rogers.
CARLSON: OK, well, the sinfulness, huh? Well, thank you, Father Begala, for your -- you're a holy man and I appreciate you spreading a little of your holiness to the rest of us.
BEGALA: It is sinful.
CARLSON: And I must say, Paul, when you get done with this gig, maybe you can apply for a job in the propaganda bureau of the North Korean government...Because this is so stupid, that it's sinful. It's a tax bill, man. Lighten up. It's not sinful.
BEGALA: No, they are screwing the poorest children in America while giving money to corporations.
CARLSON: Lighten up, Paul. Lighten up, man.
It goes on and gets worse. It's all a big joke to Tucker "jacuzzi case" Carlson.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I'm starting to become convinced: if you marry a Republican, you'd better be into anal, because you'll definitely be fucking an asshole.