Like clockwork, the self-important “pragmatists” in the Senate are banding into their little gang so they ride to the “rescue” and save us from ever having to decide something on principle. Then they clap themselves on the back for it!
You can read it yourself, or you can trust that I’ve pulled the most important bit, here:
As it would take time to enact such changes, the plan calls for an immediate $500 billion in spending cuts, something both Conrad and Coburn called “a downpayment.”
Tax increases, a ridiculously modest cut to spending (below what the “one-time” stimulus payment now factored into every budget has already added), no real reform of any kind, and promises to cut more in exchange for permission to grant yourself $2.5 trillion in new spending. Yeah, that’ll fix shit!
As folks like Mike Lee are trying to affect real change, professional Senators keep selling us down the river and congratulating themselves for doing so. They’ll smile and tell us that because both sides are unhappy, they’ve reached a good “compromise.” The stark difference between the Tea Party lawmakers and establishment Republicans couldn’t be any more clear.
It’s revolting, and it’s high time we picked up pitchforks and tar buckets.
(h/t sdferr)
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update: you know you’ve got a real winner for the American people when a Marxist is praising it. And why is he praising it? Because the spending will keep going, the borrowing will keep happening, and the promused cuts will never come. As you’d think these GOP lifers would have learned by now.
Spit.
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