Republicans in Congress are unwilling to fix the financial mess they just reconvened to fix, so they’re leaving it for Democrats. How’s that for leadership? Presumably these yahoos won’t be drawing a full salary for this period. Right?
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What’s the matter Waldo? Afraid the Democrats can’t handle it?
Thank God our Democratic betters will soon be in power to deliver the republic from any ills we face. They’ll be able to raise taxes, shirk out obligations abroad, and at long last engage their pathologic need to tell the rest of us what to do.
Hmm, Judge … sounds the Pubs are paying attention to history after all. Sounds almost exactly like what happened right after Inauguration Day 2001 (if you add “except on the rich” after the taxes part) … there is hope!
What part of my explanation of the problem is unclear? Washington Republicans have become so spineless that they can’t even muster up any actual spending cuts, to the point that they’ve given up on even trying to determine any of their spending. It’s absolutely pathetic.
Judge Smails,
Complaining about Democrats raising taxes is silly without also complaining about the Republican rule of the last 6 years borrowing like a manic teenager with a new credit card. That having been said I totally respect (what I’m presuming to be) your opinion that the answer is to decrease the size of the budget instead of raising taxes. However, I think raising taxes is better than continuing at the current deficit that the Republicans have given us.
Regarding shirking our obligations abroad, well, I’m hoping they don’t do that, though I’m worried. I do, at least, have some optimism about the matter, given that the Democrats’ hold on the purse-strings will hopefully force the administration to actually listen to the generals and the intelligence.
But my favorite part of this is the part where the Democrats “engage their pathologic need to tell the rest of us what to do.” Believe me when I say, I hate this crap as much as anyone, but, as someone once said “Or how will you tell your brother,’Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.”
And just on a side note, I’d like to say that I’ve really enjoyed discussing things with you here, Smails, and I look forward to much more of it.
Well, gee, I was always taught it was better to pay as you go as much as possible. It’s a lesson learned from my grandparents who raised their families during the Depression. So I have no problem with raised taxes–it’s better than a $9 trillion public debt owed to the banks of Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, and China.
Perhaps that’s what you meant by “shirking our obligations abroad”? Obviously we have no plan for paying back these creditor nations under the current regime, and heaven knows every creditor loves a bad debt risk — it allows them to jack up the interest rate to usery levels and take US public lands and assets as collateral. Such a sound policy for our nation’s fiscal future.
From the article:
Sounds like a few of the Republican’s got a little bit of “after election” backbone with regard to the GOP overspending. Not exactly what I’d call spineless.
Ben C. wrote about the Republicans:
I love that analogy. And if memory serves that’s an apt description of their spending (at least since Reagan) anytime they’ve held enough of a majority to do so.
Government isn’t a business. It shouldn’t make a profit. Nor should it spend all it has when there’s a surplus, and when there is the following years budget should be decreased accordingly.
I think China has by far the largest portion of that outstanding debt. Which is even more disturbing.
Then they should decide not to spend it. But they’re not making that decision. They’re simply refusing to make a decision at all. That is spineless.
Or it’s a deliberate and petty maneuvre to make the incoming Democratic Congress waste their 1-year testing period prior to the 2008 wind-up on prosaic, unpromotable budgetary issues instead of concentrating on the Democratic agenda points.
You’re absolutely right. They should decide not to spend it. Unfortunately it looks like they can’t muster the party unity not to. But then that’s often a problem of both parties.
TLPatten- Fair point. Politics as usual.
All points taken, but I’m certainly allowed to engage in a little post-election grousing after the richly-deserved walloping my guys took.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
Republican grousing = talking points, some 30 years old, to paint the Democrats as being tax-raising foreigner lovers. And that D’s will be telling everyone what to do.
If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be mildly amusing.
What’s the matter Ward, cat got your tongue?
I agree with Ben’s sentiment that it is good to have the “Judge” here. He/She at least has a conversation, and doesn’t one-off and disappear.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
Don’t eat too much.