Stephen Green drunkblogs the Republican presidential debate, which is probably the only reason he managed to survive it:
5:24PM Cain can’t wait to “throw out the current tax code.” I’m with him on that, but the idea of giving the Feds a sales tax without taking away the income tax strikes me as dangerously naive thinking.
5:25PM Really, seriously, naive. Like, worse than my very first last call.
5:25PM To Romney: Europe is going to bring us down, huh?
5:26PM Romney: I’m not going to answer this question because it’s TOTALLY HYPOTHETICAL that Europe’s economy could effect ours.
Punter.
5:26PM Romney: “I’m not going to call up Tim Geithner and ask him how the economy works.”
5:27PM Romney is defending TARP. Meh, he wasn’t exactly counting on the Tea Party vote.
5:28PM Is Romney’s complaint with the GM bailout that the funds came from TARP instead of from some other place, or do I need to drink less — or more?
5:30PM Friedman totally stole that joke from Dorothy Parker, who said that if all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, she wouldn’t be at all surprised.
5:30PM To Cain: Is Romney right?
5:30PM Cain: Yes. TARP was a good idea, badly implemented. You listening, Tea Party?
Hey, you can’t say I didn’t warn you. Anyhow, this was my favorite part:
5:32PM To Paul: Would you get the government out of housing, or are you a dirty hypocrite?
5:32PM Paul: I would dig Keynes out of the grave just to hit him with the shovel.
It’s also worth noting that Paul went after Cain on his opposition to auditing the Federal Reserve. That is true greatness. America simply isn’t worthy of the man.