DailyKos is wrong. Democrats in Congress are (mostly) wrong. All of you on this site are WRONG!!! Rachel Maddow, however, is right. This is not about the budget. There's a problem though. Have you ever seen Bugs Bunny? He does this thing with Daffy Duck where he argues with him. "Rabbit season," Daffy argues. "Duck season!" Bugs counters. Not to be outdone, Daffy shouts, "Rabbit season!" Bugs sees an opening. Clearly this is going nowhere. Daffy is so furious that he won't listen to anything Bugs could say. Bugs could shout out " Duck season!!" with no fear. Daffy is so intent on winning the argument against Bugs that he doesn't even notice what's happened. Bugs now has an upper hand. Foolishly, Daffy, in triumph, hollers, "Duck season!" And guess who Elmer Fudd shoots in the face?
The republicans are very good at talking points. Talking points require no thought. They don't prevent people with obviously very low IQ's from being elected into office. In effect, talking bouts are much like republicans themselves. Simple and to the point. I have only been following politics since President Obama's rise. However, I notice that republicans win far more arguments. They do it because they give short, easy to understand answers. They do it by distraction. It's all smoke and mirrors. Look behind the curtain Dorothy and see who's really pulling the strings. This debate about the budget has become totally ridiculous. They have shifted the focus of being in a country with 8 million unemployed. People with no jobs. Yet, how many front page NY Times articles have you seen about that? What about the 15% unemployment in the Black community? Probably on the last Friday of the month. Take a minute. Take a deep breath. Now, what is this really about? Because it's not the budget. The problem is REPUBLICANS CANNOT CREATE JOBS. Let no one convince you they can. There should be articles all up and down this site with Progressive ideas about creating JOBS. Please do not be confused. I don't mean waitress and McDonald's. We're not going to make it on $8.50 an hour. It's all well and fine to say let's fund Research and Development. Why? For what? Who gets the money? Too many questions and not enough answers. Republicans say Planned Parenthood. What happens? We spend a week talking about abortions and Incorporate my Uterus inc. and what do we stop talking about? JOBS!!! Why? Because then Republicans win. I say tell them to go to hell. Cut Planned Parenthood I'd say. Then you change the topic. Cut and spend three or four times as much on bridge rebuilding. They do it all the time. Cut medicare give away all that money in tax cuts. You know what happens? Your not talking about Planned Parenthood and whose uterus got incorporated and your talking about how Sen. Whoever is trying to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to....rebuild bridges? No no no, that's government spending. Next you'll have all types of articles about how bad the bridges are in this country. You'll start remembering stories of bridge collapse. Who goes on the defensive then? Republicans. You may not believe what I'm saying is true. You don't have to. Just watch the news. The media love this type of thing because they thrive on the conflict. How else would they make money? Three weeks after Republican's are explaining why they don't want bridges to be rebuilt (and jobs) turn the cut into a study and who wins? Everyone who doesn't make $28 or $40 billion. All I'm saying is stop being led around by the nose. They say rabbit season and not to be outdone we scream duck season. And guess who get shot in the face.
Americans in all truth don't really give a damn about the deficit. We mostly care about it in an abstract sort of way. We care about being able to send our kids to a good school. Where they'll be safe and will actually learn something useful. We want to have enough money to pay our rent and mortgage. Yes, we want to be able to go to the movies, or out to dinner without worrying if we paid all the bills. We don't want to live paycheck to paycheck but we do. Please stop listening to the drivel. They are united around destroying this country. We should be untied around fixing it.
I'm only one voice among many on this site. But if the internet has any real power, power to change the way things work, I'd use it to say one more thing. Let's all change the topic. Let's have a discussion on the many ideas that unite us to fix this country and move it in the right direction. One week to stop talking about deficits. We all have great ideas. Let's take One week and use our diaries to talk about our priorities. Let's drain the republican narrative of it's venom. They always go for the jugular. For One Week, let's do the same to them and see where it get's us.
Updated by newliberl at Sun Apr 10, 2011 at 11:58 AM PDT
Update: I too am wrong. I'm a member of the DKos community. I'm not arrogamt emough to not admit my mistakes, or to recognize when a correction needs to take place. Also, please google the People's Budget and link where possible. Please do not mention the other one.