@openid.aol.com/runnswim: I’m just glad to know you are human Larry. I was beginning to wonder. Apology accepted on the condition you don’t repeat the offense.

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I would have thought if it was such a big deal you would have an easier time finding the proof.

Mike, I’ve already apologized to you 3 times. I will now apologize 4 times.

I am very sorry that I was not accurate in identifying you as the person with whom I was arguing concerning whether or not it is “hypocritical” to be opposed to tax cuts, on macroeconomic principle, yet to accept such tax cuts in the case of one’s personal microeconomics, when they come one’s way. (Thanks to bbartlog for correctly identifying the person with whom I was actually having the honest difference of opinion).

I have learned a good lesson from this (that it is unacceptable to be even obliquely critical of someone without having one’s facts straight). I sincerely apologize to you, and I ask you to accept my apology.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

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@bbartlog: Right you are bbart. I guess Larry was just eager to pick a fight with me.

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I’m pretty sure it was a commenter (maybe Aye Chihuahua) who thought it hypocritical to advocate for higher taxes without freely paying higher taxes.

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I’m not surprised you didn’t find any hits on search terms where you link me to comments I did not make.

You might have had better luck reviewing recent posts on which you have been active.

Even with your usally high word rate per comment I was able to find these comments of yours which reference tax cuts:

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/18/obama-to-get-earpiece-or-monitors-for-help-w-press-conference-answers/?preview=true&preview_id=17017&preview_nonce=f3037fc12d#comment-164512

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/12/the-true-price-of-the-theft-act/comment-page-1/#comment-162575

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/12/the-true-price-of-the-theft-act/comment-page-1/#comment-162035

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/12/the-true-price-of-the-theft-act/comment-page-1/#comment-162031

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/12/the-true-price-of-the-theft-act/comment-page-1/#comment-162016

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/12/the-true-price-of-the-theft-act/comment-page-1/#comment-161981

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/12/the-true-price-of-the-theft-act/comment-page-1/#comment-161958

You said I “Recently you made a huge deal about my alleged “hypocrisy” in having been opposed, on principle, to the Bush tax cuts, yet accepting my own tax cuts.”

I would have thought if it was such a big deal you would have an easier time finding the proof.

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I’d suggest in future that before you start lumping me in with every other commenter here you go back and find the thread you were active on (it’s not that difficult) and verify what I said or didn’t say before you commit further factual errors.

Apology previously extended and herein confirmed; above good advice will be observed.

However, just for the record, I did make an attempt to do just that. I searched both Google and this blog’s “search” tab on the menu bar, entering everthing I could think of in a 10 minute period:

larry hypocrisy larry mike hypocrisy larry mike hypocrit larry mike stimulus tax cuts

larry hypocrisy larry hypocrite larry stimulus tax cuts bush obama etc etc etc etc

Couldn’t find the posts in question.

So, it’s actually more difficult than one might expect.

But I agree that one should take pains to be accurate before proffering even implied criticism of a specific person. So, for the third time, I’m sorry.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

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@openid.aol.com/runnswim: Larry, once again you are mistaken. I wouldn’t make a big issue out of it except that you seem to take pleasure in returning the favor the few times I am in error.

I’d suggest in future that before you start lumping me in with every other commenter here you go back and find the thread you were active on (it’s not that difficult) and verify what I said or didn’t say before you commit further factual errors.

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Mike, Just about a week ago we had this big back and forth thing going on, which started with my observation that the Bush tax cuts were a much larger form of “generational theft” than the Democratic stimulus package. You accused me of hypocrisy for not refusing the tax cuts or rebating the money I saved from the tax cuts to the treasury. Or at least I think it was you. Maybe it was “Hard Right.” If so, I apologize. Don’t have time to go looking through the blog archive. It’s not a big deal. The reason for putting it on this thread is that you are the author of the blogpost: I wanted to address it to you; and the post is about “excessive intervention in the economy” (i.e. the stimulus). Which was the topic of what started the “hypocrisy” tempest in a teapot. Again, if the guy I was arguing with was someone other than you (my main nemesis on this blog), I’m sorry to have cast aspersions your way.

If so, I’ll also apologize for thread creep.

Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

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@openid.aol.com/runnswim: Larry, I’ve made a big deal of much of your hypocrisy but I don’t believe I have ever included tax cuts in that sorry, lengthy catalog.

Perhaps would care to refresh my memory?

Then perhaps you could explain how your comment is relevant to the post topic?

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Hey Mike,

Recently you made a huge deal about my alleged “hypocrisy” in having been opposed, on principle, to the Bush tax cuts, yet accepting my own tax cuts.

It seems that your own Governor sees this more my way than yours:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/19/sanford-suggests-hes-open-taking-stimulus-money-despite-opposition/

South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford suggested Thursday that he’s open to accepting money from President Obama’s stimulus plan, even as he and other GOP governors voice opposition to the package.

A handful of Republican governors are considering turning down some of the money from the $787 billion package.

But Sanford told FOX News his state is still “looking at the pros and cons” of the bill and combing through the “fine print” to see what would benefit South Carolina residents.

He suggested he’s open to taking the money, saying Democrats aren’t turning down tax cuts even though many oppose them.

“There are a lot of Democrats that voted against tax cuts and yet they don’t go back to their states and their congressional districts and tell their folks, ‘Look you can’t take the tax cut because if so it’ll undo what I believe’,” he said.

He also told CBS’ “The Early Show” that being against the plan “doesn’t preclude taking the money.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

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