I've we're going over the cliff anyway, I say Boehner should give Obama everything he wants. Let him and the entire Democrat party own the coming crash. It's going to hurt bad, but the sooner we bite this bullet, the quicker we can begin the recovery.
And when Boehner caves and signs us up for higher taxes, the Dems and the MSM will sing our praises, right?
FIGHT!!!
Don’t CAVE!!!
It will be painful for everyone for this to happen but I think it's inevitable. Let's get it done sooner rather than later.
So What ... those of us who know don’t really care what they say, and the rest of the people are Dimocrats anyway. This is a non issue.
The meme of “blame Republicans” goes back all the way to Herbert Hoover, and Democrats were still blaming him in 1948, some sixteen years AFTER he had been booted from the Presidency.
The blame even fell to some degree upon Eisenhower, but he also had the reputation of being somewhere between merely stupid and nearly senile, so all the venom was turned on Nixon. And this was WAY before Watergate.
When Nixon was finally elected to office, what had been the “JFK-LBJ war” suddenly became “Nixon’s war”, a strange transmutation which had taken place immediately after the 1968 election, when blame for the “defeat” resulting from the Tet offensive was seamlessly shifted without missing a stroke.
Gerald Ford, elevated to the Presidency through no effort of his own, was variously caricatured as a clumsy oaf, and as a complete idiot about foreign policy, was a good honest man, though a RINO at heart, that was excoriated mercilessly by a person who was by far his intellectual inferior, a grinning peanut farmer from the rustic plains of Georgia.
When Ronaldus Magnus handily defeated Carter in debate and in the polls in 1980, he was declared to be a “B-movie actor” and also some kind of intellectial inferior who could not stay focused on the job at hand. But he did negotiate a really great recovery program for the country, in the face of HUGE resistance from both the media and a majority-Democrat Congress. His successor, George H.W. Bush, made the error of crumbling to the demands of the liberals in the matter of his pledge, “no new taxes”.
It did not help that H. Ross Perot inserted himself in the 1992 race.
George Walker Bush was labeled a “fumblemouth” and regarded as a “legacy student” in his undergraduate and graduate studies at Yale, only because of family connections, not based on his intellectual capabilities. But again, he was WAY smarter and more accomplished than the two different candidates the Democrats put up in 2000 and 2004, yet this fact never sees light in print anywhere.
And yet, everything that has failed in the past four years is attributed to “Bush’s fault”, as if there had not been a Democrat majority in both the House and Senate since January 2007, a majority that carried over into the first half of the first term of Current Occupant of the White Hut.
And when is all this FINALLY going to become some kind of responsibility of the Democrats?
Easy and probably only answer - never.
Here's what Republicans should say :
“ Dems won and they are for raising taxes.
The Bush tax cuts expire in December and President Obama has made it a point many times that he thinks that these Bush tax cuts are bad policy and he wants them to expire. He said they destroyed the economy. He ran on that and won.
So there is nothing we can do. The people have spoken. Our hands are tied.
But we still think its bad policy to raise taxes. ”
Then secretly ask O how badly he needs the House to pass something.
Morons!
I say Burn Baby Burn
Barack ran up the Federal charge card far more than George W. Bush did. How is that virtue when Bush’s part was vice?
Tough. WHo cares how they bash us now? It is time to do everything and anything to undermine the commies.