Ask yourself this: How did the Republicans manage to change the terms of the debate, such that now apparently a majority of Americans think the debt crisis should be solved by a "combination of spending cuts and revenue increases," as the media keeps constantly reminding us?
Why do Republicans, like Grover Norquist, whose "I will never vote to raise taxes on Billionnaires" pledge the majority of Congressional Republicans have signed, keep telling us over and over again that lower taxes are the solution to the poor economy and the high rate of unemployment? Everybody with half a brain knows that not only is that not true, it is the exact opposite of the truth.
The Republicans had 8 consecutive years during the Bush Administration, when they controlled both houses of Congress, to prove the efficacy of that idea and they failed miserably, creating the economic collapse that we are in the midst of now. Even though we now have incontrovertible evidence that the Republican ideology of government is wrong, average Americans keep voting to allow Republicans to keep taking money away from average Americans and handing it over to America's wealthiest 400 "citizens," whose combined wealth exceeds that of half of the country.
How do Republicans, despite demonstrably having the worst ideas and the worst candidates for public office, get to keep dictating the terms of the debate in Congress?
The answer, of course, is Fox News.
For decades, Fox News has been poisoning the American air waves with its hate-filled rhetoric and outright lies. It's "red-blooded American" bullshit is just that, a cover for a truly profound and deep-seated hatred of America and American values.
But now, for the first time, there is just a shred of hope that Fox may get brought down. The Murdoch empire is sustaining painful hits in Britain. All it would take is one politician with a pair of balls, and even a tiny pair at that, to get the ball rolling (no pun intended) here. An investigation of Fox News would almost certainly produce even more dirt than that of News of the World. If there is anything other than high gas prices that can get Americans riled, the hacking of phone records of 9/11 victims must be it. I have no doubt that Fox News, which is already known to have done that, has done many other, equally reprehensible things.
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