The President was out in the Rose Garden today talking tough about what he will do if the Congress (read "Republicans") sends him a deficit reduction plan that doesn't include new revenue (read "taxes"). He says he will veto it. I wonder if this veto promise is like the one last December when he was not going to budge on renewing tax cuts for the rich? Obama is presenting a plan for reducing the deficit and providing jobs for people through spending on infrastructure projects, among other things. To get money for the latter, he posits the necessity for raising more money in the time-honored fashion of all governments since the Pharohs: raising taxes. But you can forget that. Obama's plans are DOA in the Tea-Party-crazed House.
What's the scenario here, folks? We've been here before. It's just another variation on a common theme we've been hearing for the last three years. That is, the Republican party will stiff Obama on whatever he proposes that they don't want, and that includes ANY new revenue-raising measures at all. They will not compromise. They have yet to compromise with the White House. How in the name of hell can anybody suppose they're going to change now? These people are not going to budge a centimeter until after the election over a year from now. And they don't give a flying f--k what damage is done to the country or to the poor, the working stiffs, and other middle class suckers out there. All that matters to the Congressional obstructionists is keeping their corporate masters happy. Seizing power again November 2012 is all these guys care about. Nothing else.
USA Today has several stories about this depressing subject. See here and here.
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it was good to hear obama sound angry and energetic, though i don't trust him; he's done that before. to the extent that anything can be done while the gop is playing extortionist, this is probably it. since they're gonna say no if obama says the sun rises in the morning, he should be saying very liberal things now, trying to get as much through as possible, so that it becomes more and more obvious to even the most thick-headed americans that the republicans are holding us all hostage. the angrier people get at them, the more likely obama and other dem's will get votes in 2012. and the more obama sounds like he stands for something, the better he'll do with his former consituency.
the republicans are getting nuttier and nuttier, and so are their supporters. hooray for capital punishment, even if the guy has a good chance of being innocent ! hooray for DADT, and boo on the guy who has served, closeted, in the military! and above all, hooray for letting people die if they don't have insurance! since there isn't a republican candidate who is anywhere near decent, and we're all equally shafted if one of them wins, whichever, the best the dem's can do is keep calling attention to their callousness and stupidity.....
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