Well this is the week we see if President Obama will say "enough" to Republicans which to date seem only interested in pushing their idea for this struggling economy, "more tax cuts". Damn if that doesn't sound like what we have heard these past eight years, and look where we are now.
Is this our future? More after the fold.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking on "Meet the Press" Sunday, said if
he were asked to vote on the current plan, "put me down in the 'no' column." The
Ohio Republican said he believes "a lot of Republicans will vote 'no,' because
they see this as a lot of wasteful Washington spending...and doing nothing to
help create jobs and preserve jobs."
So now we start this so called period of bipartisan joint venture to basically save the American economy? It sounds like the same ole same ole to me, with the usual threats of a filibuster if the babies do not get their way. Ok, so filibuster, I dare you. If the Republican Party thinks the fall out in 1997 was bad when they shut down the government, they truly haven't seen anything yet. It is not surprising however to see this from these country club boys. After losing their shirts and pants in the last two elections you'd think the Republicans would get a clue, but continuing with the same failed leadership I guess that is too much to hope for.
John Boehner's chief complaint is "he wants a stimulus package that will ensure jobs", so what's his solution? Tax cuts, the same solution George W. Bush shoved down our throats for eight years to an overall loss of jobs, hell just in the past few months we've seen 2.6 million jobs lost. Republicans moan about the stranglehold the middle east has in regarding oil (so let's go to war right?), yet in Obama's stimulus proposal what do they weed out?
The initiative already reflects political trade-offs. Lawmakers dropped an
Obama-backed proposal that would have provided a tax credit supporting creation
of jobs and boosted spending and tax cuts supporting development of solar, wind
and other sources of renewable energy.
You got it a two for one deal (guess you can't let the arms industry and Halliburton suffer cause we have no reason to start conflicts in the middle east). And to top it all off, our Speaker of the House decides she's open to "more Federal money for banks!" That's after she and Congress already gave banks "50 billion of the taxpayers money and they have refused to say what they did with it. (Rumor has it they bought up other banks and also gave big corporate bonuses, oh and just breaking buying nice expensiveluxury jets). Guess we can't have bank CEO's having to look at the faces of the people they screwed so badly, much less stand in a security line with them. Hell they might get infected with commoner's germs!
The idiocy of both Congress and the American public seems to know no bounds. While crying about the cost of the stimulus package, politicians
try to play compromise with that same old shell game of tax cuts. George Bush was a master of it. Give tax breaks to the wealthy and a pittance to the average working man or women and tout your accomplishments and generosity. What they fail to tell you is those breaks come from the monies passed back to states and localities, so to make up for the loss sales taxes increase, property taxes increase to cover short falls. You get the picture right? Kids, this is about the basic concepts of math my second grader is learning, if you take something away from something else it's value decreases, and continues decreasing until you have nothing!
We have undergone a period mostly under Republican leadership of excess spending (taking something away from something), and tax breaks for those who need it the least (again taking something from something). Duh! Where'd da money go? Who stole my money tree? The only thing that has grown is our debt and try as we might we can't seem to find the loose change under the seat to pay it down. Guess what kiddies, your mother should have taught you that "money doesn't grow on trees."
President Obama, despite having a wonderful dream of bipartisanship, those you are reaching out to are rejecting the proffered hand. They are still crying like spoiled brats gimme, gimme gimme! There's been no leadership change so obviously no change in thinking (remember what happened to dinosaurs). Time to spank these ungrateful children and send them to bed as should have been done long ago. Let them threaten a filibuster, better yet let them do it won't last a day before we the people are crawling so far up their keester, hemorrhoids would be preferable. We gave you the mandate Mr. President, not that shill John Boehner. It's good to be polite, but when the same people continue with the same tactics and threats that brought us here initially and refuse to consider change, we who are losing our houses, can't afford health care or college for our kids need to be remembered. We are your foundation and we are crumbling. Quit playing games and act. Take the chance and the opportunity given to share in the credit, or get the hell out of the way. There is no other option.