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Political economy
Sep. 19th, 2011 11:55 pmI saw a couple of quotes here that got my dandruff up enough to respond. And enough to apply topical scalp treatment; I'm tired of flakes on my nice black t-shirts.
"Veto threats, a massive tax hike, phantom savings and punting on entitlement reform is not a recipe for economic or job growth_or even meaningful deficit reduction," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. "The good news is that the Joint Committee is taking this issue far more seriously than the White House."
Filibuster threats, tax cuts for the wealthy, and slashing care for the poor and needy, by comparison, are a recipe for economic nightmare. It is exactly what the GOP is pushing, and what they will continue to push. If the GOP had not pushed so hard for exactly that through early August over what is normally a routine and bipartisan increase in the debt ceiling, we would not have seen one of the top credit agencies downgrade US debt a notch - and we wouldn't have seen the stock markets the GOP loves so much go into a tailspin.
Note that they call a tax increase on the top 0.3% of Americans "a massive tax hike" and don't address who the hike is on. If they tried to debate on the facts instead of their rhetoric, they'd lose so fast their heads would spin even faster than their spin-doctors.
"Class warfare isn't leadership," House Speaker John Boehner said, in Cincinnati.
Mr. Boehner, I'd listen to you if you weren't a leader already pushing class warfare down our throats. You want to stop help to the poor and elderly, cut programs that benefit the middle class, and even weaken programs that benefit the whole country, little things like clean air, clean water, accurate news, reliable weather forecasts and strong scientific research. That's class warfare, the ultra-rich against absolutely everybody else. You picked this fight. It will come back to bite you even if I have to send my dentures in the mail to do it. Unless you cut the Post Office too.
"Veto threats, a massive tax hike, phantom savings and punting on entitlement reform is not a recipe for economic or job growth_or even meaningful deficit reduction," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. "The good news is that the Joint Committee is taking this issue far more seriously than the White House."
Filibuster threats, tax cuts for the wealthy, and slashing care for the poor and needy, by comparison, are a recipe for economic nightmare. It is exactly what the GOP is pushing, and what they will continue to push. If the GOP had not pushed so hard for exactly that through early August over what is normally a routine and bipartisan increase in the debt ceiling, we would not have seen one of the top credit agencies downgrade US debt a notch - and we wouldn't have seen the stock markets the GOP loves so much go into a tailspin.
Note that they call a tax increase on the top 0.3% of Americans "a massive tax hike" and don't address who the hike is on. If they tried to debate on the facts instead of their rhetoric, they'd lose so fast their heads would spin even faster than their spin-doctors.
"Class warfare isn't leadership," House Speaker John Boehner said, in Cincinnati.
Mr. Boehner, I'd listen to you if you weren't a leader already pushing class warfare down our throats. You want to stop help to the poor and elderly, cut programs that benefit the middle class, and even weaken programs that benefit the whole country, little things like clean air, clean water, accurate news, reliable weather forecasts and strong scientific research. That's class warfare, the ultra-rich against absolutely everybody else. You picked this fight. It will come back to bite you even if I have to send my dentures in the mail to do it. Unless you cut the Post Office too.
