Why won't the GOP take the 3 parts cuts to 1 part revenue deal? From what I understand the tax hike doesn't kick in until 2013. If the GOP takes the white house and keep the house and senate, they could just do whatever they wanted [like in Wisconsin!] and roll back the tax hike in 2013 with legislation.
If the tax increase goes in, and the majority of voters are FURIOUS about it just like the Tea Party says they are, who are those FURIOUS voters going to vote for in 2012? They sure as hell are not going to vote Democrat. So what's the problem?
I think the problem is that classic GOP [vs the Tea Party running under the Republican Party name] fears facing Tea Party candidates that are even -MORE- radically right in 2012 primaries and losing. It only takes 51% of voters in one of the existing parties to hijack that party and go whatever direction they want to go.
The Tea Party 'sweep' of 2010 proved what we already know; The US has a two party system. Had the Tea Party ran as a third party they wouldn't have had GOP majority in the house and senate and they couldn't try to u-turn the country based on a populace of 20 to 30% of the voters. The GOP knows they are in a symbiotic relationship with the Tea Party and have no clue what to do.
The only other outcome I can come up with is that if the Bush Tax cuts for the wealthy are allowed to expire that the majority of Americans will have a positive view of Obama, they'll re-elect him for 4 more years and boot the GOP out of majorities in the house and senate. By not allowing the revenue increases it makes the Democrats look bad. But using the same voting logic, do you really think a Democratic voter that wants the tax increases to help balance the budget is going to vote Republican/Tea Party in 2012 if they succeed in not getting revenue raises as part of the package? Fat chance.
Where are the recent, significant public polling results about support for expiration of the Bush Tax cuts for the wealthy?
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Chocolate rations have been increased from 100 grams to 80 grams.
Rant Cornucopia follows
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So now revenue neutral means raising revenue?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/us/politics/04budget.html
I've got an idea for helping to strengthen social security; collect taxes to fund the program instead of legislating a 2% tax cut? McCain, I thought you were better than this.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/business/03pay.html
Seems like the CEO's have wised up and realized that deferred compensation is a bad idea. Maybe they know the stock ship lollipop is about to hit the iceberg.. Too bad state workers didn't figure it out.
Funny, I missed my 23% raise. According to the NY times the average American worker got a 0.5% raise. I've had a 5% pay cut since 2009. This year brought news that I could be in the unemployment like in two years. More than likely the job I do will be outsourced out of state or country.
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“I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is unattainable,” Mitch McConnell, 2011
“the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Mitch McConnell, 2010
Sounds bipartisan to me.
"President Obama needs to decide between his goal of higher taxes or a bipartisan plan to address our deficit. He can't have both.".
Well, so much for bipartisian.
“Why are we continuing down the same path when it is not working?” asked Mr. Scott, the freshman class leader, who said that freshman Republicans have the long-term fiscal health of the nation in mind.
Dear Mr Scott. $4 trillion cut over 10 years is not serious? Sorry that only 3 Trillion came from cuts and 1 Trillion came from revenue increases. If you could do math, you'd still see it was a net gain for the GOP of 2 Trillion.
Boehner doesn't "hope" they can work their way through this. The way -they- see it, the worse shape this country is in, the better their chances in 2012.
It appears the GOP couldn't care less about the consequences of widespread unemployment, depression, chaos or even militias groups forming in the U.S. Otherwise they'd just up the limit like they did from 2000 to 2008.
If the GOP wants a US-wide Christian theocracy, single party dictatorship, or whatever, they could wait until 2012 and give it a shot.
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This is what happens when an extreme third party decides to run in a two party system as one of the existing parties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Minnesota_state_government_shutdown
In Minnesota, the GOP controls 56% of the Senate, 54% of the House, and wants 100% of the control. Wisconsin GOP is furious about our recalls, running fake democrat in primarie to buy time to install voter ID and gerrymander the poll maps, yet of the 53% of the people that voted in Walker in Wisconsin [before any of the far right nonsense started], I refuse to believe that 100% of them thinks that my rep should have ZERO voice. I have to believe it's the same in Minnesota.
WI has a GOP Governor, House, and Senate, so the Democrats in our state basically might as well not show up. That's about how much input the other 47% of the state has right now.
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So now revenue neutral means raising revenue?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/us/politics/04budget.html
I've got an idea for helping to strengthen social security; collect taxes to fund the program instead of legislating a 2% tax cut? McCain, I thought you were better than this.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/business/03pay.html
Seems like the CEO's have wised up and realized that deferred compensation is a bad idea. Maybe they know the stock ship lollipop is about to hit the iceberg.. Too bad state workers didn't figure it out.
Funny, I missed my 23% raise. According to the NY times the average American worker got a 0.5% raise. I've had a 5% pay cut since 2009. This year brought news that I could be in the unemployment like in two years. More than likely the job I do will be outsourced out of state or country.
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“I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is unattainable,” Mitch McConnell, 2011
“the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Mitch McConnell, 2010
Sounds bipartisan to me.
"President Obama needs to decide between his goal of higher taxes or a bipartisan plan to address our deficit. He can't have both.".
Well, so much for bipartisian.
“Why are we continuing down the same path when it is not working?” asked Mr. Scott, the freshman class leader, who said that freshman Republicans have the long-term fiscal health of the nation in mind.
Dear Mr Scott. $4 trillion cut over 10 years is not serious? Sorry that only 3 Trillion came from cuts and 1 Trillion came from revenue increases. If you could do math, you'd still see it was a net gain for the GOP of 2 Trillion.
Boehner doesn't "hope" they can work their way through this. The way -they- see it, the worse shape this country is in, the better their chances in 2012.
It appears the GOP couldn't care less about the consequences of widespread unemployment, depression, chaos or even militias groups forming in the U.S. Otherwise they'd just up the limit like they did from 2000 to 2008.
If the GOP wants a US-wide Christian theocracy, single party dictatorship, or whatever, they could wait until 2012 and give it a shot.
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This is what happens when an extreme third party decides to run in a two party system as one of the existing parties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Minnesota_state_government_shutdown
In Minnesota, the GOP controls 56% of the Senate, 54% of the House, and wants 100% of the control. Wisconsin GOP is furious about our recalls, running fake democrat in primarie to buy time to install voter ID and gerrymander the poll maps, yet of the 53% of the people that voted in Walker in Wisconsin [before any of the far right nonsense started], I refuse to believe that 100% of them thinks that my rep should have ZERO voice. I have to believe it's the same in Minnesota.
WI has a GOP Governor, House, and Senate, so the Democrats in our state basically might as well not show up. That's about how much input the other 47% of the state has right now.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Return of the rant
Will 2011 will go down in history as the year that the GOP lets the US default and cause a global depression?
Among first OR second world countries we have the -third- lowest revenue compared to GDP. Only Mexico and Chile are lower. Wow, we sure are taxed to death. Not. I guess the Tea Party and the GOP wants to rename the entire country New Mexico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP
Partisan politics has gotten so pathetic in this country that the GOP has to attack Obama just because he is "not one of them". Obama's policies are moderate fiscally and socially, unlike the current GOP agenda.
Let's compare Medicare Part D to "Obamacare".
Medicare Part D: largest totally unfunded corporate handout:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D#Criticisms
"Obamacare": funded from Medicare cuts, corporate handout.
Obamacare is a corporate handout? Hell Yes. By requiring folks to carry insurance in the private sector. A Government takeover of healthcare you say? That would have been a mandatory single payer system, not a single payer -OPTION-, which is what we really needed. That's right, I'm one of those 'under 40 nutcases' that thinks the law wasn't liberal -enough-.
I -can not- believe people would want to repeal the ability for people with pre-existing conditions to get health insurance. Really, what is wrong with you? Remember, do unto others and payback is a b**ch. Clearly this has voters confused as they have been trained to attack those who are not on their team.
Bush drove up the debt 4 to 5 trillion dollars and left the economy in the toilet at the end of his term for this moment. Wars, Medicare Part D, tax cuts for those who need them least. Where were you then, Tea Party? Oh, that's right, you weren't funded by Billionaires yet, because the GOP was still in control and executing their plan to "Starve The Beast".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Grover Norquist, you suck.
The 2000 to 2008 presidency was all about getting this country to the brink of bankruptcy. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! This $**t was planned all along. Hell, that 70+ year old Senator d00d from Vermont figured it out. What's his name, Colonel Sanders?
The GOP worked so hard over the last eight years to irrevocably damage the US permenantly. Raising revenue now could ultimately mean all of their hard work of hating on non rich people was for naught.
Sorry Barack, I naively thought that bipartisanship was possible, too, but clearly it's not when the other side wants 100% of their way and 0% of yours. Obama needs to start kicking ass, taking names, or risk alienating his base.
Among first OR second world countries we have the -third- lowest revenue compared to GDP. Only Mexico and Chile are lower. Wow, we sure are taxed to death. Not. I guess the Tea Party and the GOP wants to rename the entire country New Mexico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP
Partisan politics has gotten so pathetic in this country that the GOP has to attack Obama just because he is "not one of them". Obama's policies are moderate fiscally and socially, unlike the current GOP agenda.
Let's compare Medicare Part D to "Obamacare".
Medicare Part D: largest totally unfunded corporate handout:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D#Criticisms
"Obamacare": funded from Medicare cuts, corporate handout.
Obamacare is a corporate handout? Hell Yes. By requiring folks to carry insurance in the private sector. A Government takeover of healthcare you say? That would have been a mandatory single payer system, not a single payer -OPTION-, which is what we really needed. That's right, I'm one of those 'under 40 nutcases' that thinks the law wasn't liberal -enough-.
I -can not- believe people would want to repeal the ability for people with pre-existing conditions to get health insurance. Really, what is wrong with you? Remember, do unto others and payback is a b**ch. Clearly this has voters confused as they have been trained to attack those who are not on their team.
Bush drove up the debt 4 to 5 trillion dollars and left the economy in the toilet at the end of his term for this moment. Wars, Medicare Part D, tax cuts for those who need them least. Where were you then, Tea Party? Oh, that's right, you weren't funded by Billionaires yet, because the GOP was still in control and executing their plan to "Starve The Beast".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Grover Norquist, you suck.
The 2000 to 2008 presidency was all about getting this country to the brink of bankruptcy. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! This $**t was planned all along. Hell, that 70+ year old Senator d00d from Vermont figured it out. What's his name, Colonel Sanders?
The GOP worked so hard over the last eight years to irrevocably damage the US permenantly. Raising revenue now could ultimately mean all of their hard work of hating on non rich people was for naught.
Sorry Barack, I naively thought that bipartisanship was possible, too, but clearly it's not when the other side wants 100% of their way and 0% of yours. Obama needs to start kicking ass, taking names, or risk alienating his base.
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