Oh, I see
All too well, because it's all too familiar. Geez, sometimes it feels like I've been married to the guy for the last eight years. Just between you and me, I think we're now battling for Jody's mind, since she's on a quest for knowledge and one of the few people who isn't burnt out on listening to us.
Maybe we need to have one of those classic threads reviewing sleazy rhetorical techniques, like argument-by-anonymous-expert ("economists have shown..."). I'd love to hear about how a member of the dismal science "showed" the validity of what amounts to a highly-partisan alternate-history proposition. Once again Tom's insulted our intelligence.