This seriously is the exact defense of an 8-year old.

But at least we’ve narrowed down the age range of our conservative obstructionist friends. Which makes sense because only an 8-year old would be busying themselves with childish nonsense while the house is on fire. This is what happens when you let children play with matches.

What’s next? They going to steal money from our pensions and claim they were “just going to borrow it”?

Oh wait…

Does anyone believe this?If so, I have some mortgage-backed securities to sell you.

This “light-hearted jokle” encapsulates as well as anything else the total contempt Republicans have for ordinary, working Americans. I hope they fry him good for this.

I think he’s quoting from an obscure, left-leaning political blog:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/solis-gets-a-vote-today.php

I think this cuts to a really interesting problem for the GOP, and particularly for doctrinaire anti-government types like Cantor. They generally have nothing but praise for ordinary, hard-working, blue collar Americans. On the other hand, they reserve their highest scorn for those who take refuge in government, instead of getting a real job or making a meaningful contribution. But this clip highlights the paradox inherent in their views: most government employees are hard-working, blue-collar types. And that’s why it’s political poison. A video of angry, profane bureaucrats wouldn’t have been nearly so damaging. But this comes off as elitist, as if Cantor’s aide is sneering at the folks who haul our garbage and care for the elderly. Which, of course, he is.

And that’s the problem Cantor and his ilk now face. The only entity capable of helping ordinary people at this extraordinary moment is government. Admitting that is anathema to them. Denying it amounts to political suicide. So instead, we get ‘jokes’ entirely devoid of substantive critique. Cantor has no response to AFSCME’s complaints. The most he can do is mock the complainers.

‘ The fight over Solis is really just a precursor of the looming battle over the Employee Free Choice Act. A person with knowledge of the meeting earlier this week between AFL president John Sweeney and Vice President Joe Biden noted that they discussed EFCA and the administration’s continued commitment to it. When the battle is joined–probably in late Spring–Solis’s nomination will look like a skirmish.’