Monday, August 01, 2011

Sold Out

When both the Tea Party AND the Progressives are against a deal you know that deal has a problem.

This latest deal is no deal at all.

The first stage of cuts calls for 900 billion or so over ten years.

That's only 90 billion in cuts a year. That's all that's guaranteed.

It requires a bipartisan bicameral committee to deliver a package of a further 1.2 trillion in proposed cuts before Thanksgiving.

However, it does NOT require that to be voted on and passed by Congress or Obama.

If they don't deliver these recommendations it triggers an automatic 1.2 trillion in spending cuts but HALF of those are defense cuts, essentially holding the security of the nation hostage to a group of 12 Congresscritters.

It requires a VOTE on a Balanced Budget Amendment. It does not require that vote must pass.

It does nothing to address tax reform.

It raises the debt ceiling by 2.5 trillion, enough to get past the 2012 elections and guarantee the D.C. douches need not deal with this again before running to keep their jobs.

And there is the reason for the deal. Not because they have the interests of the country at heart.

They just don't want to join the unemployment line. The line they have been working very hard to avoid talking about and dealing with.

Michele Bachmann is against it and will vote so.

Lindsey Graham is against it.

Rand Paul is against it.

Waffles II is against it.

And Mike Lee is really against it.


As for the idiot pundits saying the American People are the winner here, I call bullshit.

"They're tired of hearing about it" they say. "Don't put us through this anymore" "We're tired of this fight."

The American People are a whole lot tougher than that. They want it done right, not fast. They're tired of the fighting maybe but not so much that they no longer care about their future and the future of their children. And they don't care a flying fig about whether Boehner and Reid and Obama are trying to keep their jobs.

We didn't forge and preserve this nation by taking the easy road.



What say you?

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