War on Christmas

I want to say with this little skirmish conservatives have sunk to a new low or have reached a new level of idiocy. But it is actually small potatoes compared to what the GOP is doing to the country as a whole and especially to the poor. Even so, when I heard it on the radio my reaction was only "Grrrr!"

We can all name the product promoted with the slogans, "It's what's for dinner." "The fabric of our lives." "Got milk?" These and 15 other commodities are promoted through partnerships with producers and the Dept. of Agriculture. The producers agree to give a certain amount (such as a dollar per bale of cotton) to the DoA, who then runs an advertising campaign for the product. From the slogans above we see it can work very well.

Since sales of artificial Christmas trees now top sales of real trees the tree grower association agreed to the same kind of deal with the DoA. Conservatives quickly branded it as "Obama's Christmas tree tax," even though it is nothing of the sort. The program is on hold. Such infantile behavior to grasp at everything for partisan advantage.