MORE FUN WITH THE LA TIMES

Every time I get lunch at Woodstock's (about once a week or so), I find myself reading the house copy of the LAT, and there's always at least one article that gets my spider sense a'tinglin. Here's this week's main offender.

It's on the debate about Dubya's dividend tax cut idea, and how it will probably see changes. Fair enough. But...

...They talk to Republicans, both moderate (Olympia Snowe) and conservative (Tom "Exterminator for Christ" DeLay), but the only Democrat they talk to is John Breaux, a thoroughly moderate senator. The only other Dem they mention is Zell Miller... who seems to support Dubya's tax plan as is. Ugh.

...Also, the entire 2nd half of this article is a Republican love-fest, quoting studies from the Business Roundtable, the Heritage Foundation (!!!), and the Republican Study Group.

What else?

Also, a separate measure the administration proposed Friday to liberalize tax benefits for savings builds on the popular individual retirement accounts familiar to lawmakers and many of their constituents.

Hmm, "popular"? How popular are they when you call them what they really are: "privatization". Oooh! Scary word!

The long fight to repeal the estate tax, by contrast, was powered by an influential coalition of farm and small-business groups; reducing taxes for married couples has been touted by religious groups.

Um no, the long fight to repeal the estate tax was a payoff to Bush wealthy contributors, and he pushed for it by parading around a couple of small businessmen and farmers (for the sake of the super-rich), even though raising the minimum dollar amount where the estate tax took effect would have done the trick.

Ok I'm frustrated, I'll be back later.