Sorry, bit of a rant coming on, I fear. \u00a0I’m so mad at the GOP shenanigans that I can hardly see straight.<\/p>\n
This “gang of six” deal is a butt-rocket. \u00a0I could go on copying and pasting pros and cons and cons and cons, but the two facts I care about are this:<\/p>\n
That’s enough for me. \u00a0Okay, one more, from the same WSJ paragraph: \u00a0“The plan would <\/strong>reduce the deficit by\u00a0$3.7 trillion over 10 years.” \u00a0Gee, can you spare it? \u00a0That’s just the amount the Obama has added to the deficit SO FAR! \u00a0By the end of this year it’ll be $5T on his watch, and God knows how much more by the time he’s done in 2012 if there is a God and He loves us, or in 2016 if there is a God and He hates us. \u00a0NEVER MIND how much more Obama has already caused to be added through his ruinous Marxist death-panel CommieCare get-poor-quick scheme.<\/p>\n Unbelievable that Republicans would smilingly present a plan which even if it lived up to 1000% percent of its hype would only wipe out over ten years the “deficit” that Obama generated in two. \u00a0And wait a minute–I just noticed that it says it will reduce the deficit by that amount over ten years. \u00a0WinTheFuture? \u00a0The deficit is year-by-year, not a sum over years. \u00a0You cut a deficit IN ten years. You cut a DEBT over ten years. If they are aggregating deficits, that is debt. But wouldn’t they like us to think it’s deficit? Bastards.<\/p>\n I opposed the *pledge* for Cut Cap & Balance because it looked like a fig leaf for EXACTLY this sort of shenanigans. \u00a0“Here, buy into yet another set of promises that (really do!) sound good, right before we sell you out once more…” \u00a0I very much like Cut, Cap & Balance. \u00a0I hate what is sure enough going on here–the GOP is using the fact that CCB just got a vote to trot out this syphilitic proposal to raise taxes and barely trim the stubble on deficits.<\/p>\n Our friends in the GOP may yet do the right thing. \u00a0But the fact that the Gang of Six returned and trotted out their fricking Jamie Gorelick \/ Lee Hamilton (okay not really, but might as well be) proposal on the day that CCB went through, after we already told G6 to pack sand once–I find it unsettling. \u00a0I think the GOP is once again trying to bamboozle not the left but the right. \u00a0After all, they’re in secret talks with the left all God-Damned day these days, and we can hardly get the GOP to come on conservative media.<\/p>\n If this goes poorly, I will be done with the GOP. \u00a0One year ago, I was an establishment man, leery of the Tea Party. \u00a0Yet the Tea Party has consistently done the right thing, notably in not going third party even a little, and the GOP has consistently refused to act as if there are conservatives around. \u00a0If forced to choose by a disappearance of common ground, I’ll be straight-up Tea Party.<\/p>\n Even if they go third party. \u00a0Maybe. \u00a0Damn I’m angry.<\/p>\n Sorry, bit of a rant coming on, I fear. \u00a0I’m so mad at the GOP shenanigans that I can hardly see straight.<\/p>\n This “gang of six” deal is a butt-rocket. \u00a0I could go on copying and pasting pros and cons and cons and cons, but the two facts I care about are this:<\/p>\n That’s enough for me. \u00a0Okay, one more, from the same WSJ paragraph: \u00a0“The plan would <\/strong>reduce the deficit by\u00a0$3.7 trillion over 10 years.” \u00a0Gee, can you spare it? \u00a0That’s just the amount the Obama has added to the deficit SO FAR! \u00a0By the end of this year it’ll be $5T … Continue reading \n