Oddly enough, the cuts never materialized and the 'Pukes had their asses handed to them.
Somebody ping The Republican Party. If you cave now, you're toast in 2012. You might as well give standing firm a shot. At least you'll have a shot at getting re-elected. Otherwise, sayonara.
Yep, the slight hit that Barry is taking in the polls in July, 2011, is a bargain for the boost he’s getting to get through November, 2012.
There are still threads on FR where posters earnestly believe that Boehner and McConnell are on our side, negotiating as well as they can with only ‘half of a third of the government’.
A second, $1.4 trillion increase would be tied to a specially created congressional committee that would have to ‘suggest’ deficit cuts of a slightly larger amount.
If that panel did not act - or if Congress rejected their recommendations - ‘automatic’ spending cuts would be triggered that could affect Medicare and defense spending, two of the most politically sacrosanct programs.
And this is going to play out...they’ll use our seniors healthcare coverage and the military as cannonfodder. Because... as we have seen in congress...as do nothing as the UN, while the people eat the crumbs off their tables.
And the twelve will be positioned to take kickbacks and numerous other political black mail tactics. So they’ll not agree any more than congress agrees as it hands down this very “small” thing of what is considered a bi-partisian bill?
The system isn’t dysfunctional, nor broken, it simply doesn’t exist any longer ‘for’ or ‘by the people’. American citizens are no longer in the “loop”...we’ve become insignificant in their agendas....used as cannonfodder only as parties fire away to entertain the “stupid” public.
Amazing theatrics...even more amazing the public still cannot see. IRA’s eetc. will be next to tap....pensions and any other area that has volumes of revenue..if they aren’t already.