20 November 2007
Paul Krugman is a Princeton economist and frequent New York Times contributor. Tom Delay (R-TX) is a former exterminator who was expelled from college for drinking and vandalism (he later resigned from Congress amidst charges of ethics violations). This is what Tom Delay recently had to say about Paul Krugman:
“I’d like to bitch-slap him.”
28 June 2007
Tom "The Hammer" Delay wrote an article at Politico on Monday containing his opinions on climate change and energy policy. But before looking at what Delay has to say on the topic, let's review the logical fallacy of False Dilemma:
The formal fallacy of false dilemma—also known as false choice, false dichotomy, falsified dilemma, fallacy of the excluded middle, black and white thinking, false correlative, either/or fallacy, and bifurcation—involves a situation in which two alternative statements are held to be the only possible options, when in reality there exist one or more other options which have not been considered. The fallacy relies on a misuse of the or operator.
"Mark is late for work. Either his car has broken down, or he has overslept. We telephoned and learned he isn't at home, so his car must have broken down."
"[W]e have two options. First of all, we can stop. Everything. In order to make a real change, a revolutionary change, in our "carbon footprint" or whatever idiotic standard Al Gore is using to scold the American people this week, we would have to shut down every combustion engine in the country. No cars. No trucks. No planes. We'd also have to shut down every factory...no earth-moving vehicles and no excavation equipment...no construction projects...we wouldn't have any building materials, because we'd have to shut down the timber industry...no new resources, no manufacturing industry, rationed goods and service, rationed electricity availability, no supermarkets (no trucks, remember). Basically, we'd hop into our time machines and land back in the, say, 1920s..."
"So what's left? Two viable political options.First, someone could propose a truly workable package of reforms -- a series of tax credits and market-based incentives for companies to reduce their emissions, for instance, rather than the zero-sum silliness of current cap-and-trade schemes.
Any serious proposal would have to begin with increasing domestic production, which could be done "green" by way of modern drilling technology or nuclear energy. But then again, no one's going to vote for a Republican because of his campaign's clever environmental white paper."
"This brings us to option No. 2, the liberals' preference: insincere hectoring."
29 May 2007
"If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
-Thomas Szasz
“God has spoken to me. I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party."
-Tom Delay
10 May 2007
On his blog today, Tom Delay (pictured on the left) demonstrates that his irony-meter is broken.
Responding to recent comments by Vladimir Putin comparing U.S. foreign policy to that of the Third Reich, Tom Delay commented "Odd, I only thought it was the radical left in our own nation which enjoys likening the United States to Nazi Germany."
But Tom Delay has been pretty liberal himself with Nazi references. In his recent book, Tom Delay remarks:
“I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time believing anyone would say it if it wasn’t true. You know, the big lie — like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie [that DeLay violated campaign-finance laws in Texas] liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler.”
