That you consider the NY Times just a liberal propoganda piece is an indication of how brainwashed you are by the right wing chattering class.

ROF,L and LOL!!!! If you only had a brain, I would say that it had been dry cleaned by the left wing loonies. Interesting that you should use the term "chattering class" as used by Chuck Schumer when he said that most Americans did not mind those little porky amendments. Is he one of your heroes since you felt the need to quote him?

BTW, JIC you do not know what the "chattering classes" means, I am here to enlighten you:

The chattering classes is a generally derogatory term often used by pundits and political commentators to refer to a politically active, socially concerned and highly educated section of the "metropolitan middle class," especially those with political, media, and academic connections. It is sometimes used to refer to a liberal elite, but its first use by British right wing polemicist Frank Johnson in 1980 appeared to include a wider range of pundits. Indeed, the term is used by people all across the political spectrum to refer to the journalists and political operatives who see themselves as the arbiters of conventional wisdom. As such, the notion of 'chattering classes' can be seen as an antonym to the older idea of an unrepresented Silent Majority (made famous by the U.S Republican President Richard Nixon).