Posted on 08/02/2011 5:56:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Welcome to the new Washington normal: endless rounds of legislative carjacking.
Perhaps that's unduly grim — pessimism fueled by the exhaustion of the moment. Perhaps, having peered into the abyss of political gridlock and economic collapse, those Republicans who pushed things to the brink this time will be chastened on the next round.
Perhaps, but I'm sticking with pessimism. One side wanted the car, had a gun and wasn't afraid — certainly not afraid enough — to use it. The other had a child in the back seat.
Those who blame Democrats or President Obama for being lousy negotiators fail to appreciate the fundamentally asymmetric nature of the current bargaining. You cannot practice the art of the possible with a party that insists on finger painting with a single color: spending cuts only.
The coming crisis points are manifold. The current spending deal — the one reached on the brink of government shutdown — expires in September. Extended unemployment benefits run out at the end of the year. The temporary cut in the payroll tax expires.
The evenly divided and therefore easily deadlocked supercommittee is supposed to report just before Thanksgiving. Congress is supposed to vote by Christmas. Absent agreement, the trigger — across-the-board cuts to defense and domestic spending — gets pulled shortly after New Year's.
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“evenly divided and therefore easily deadlocked supercommittee”
BS! At least one , probably 2, rinos will be on the committee.
This is an outrageous slander. Larry Sinclair was an adult when the incident occured!
I don’t think it anything at all like hijacking.
I think it was more like a man and wife arguing.
The man wants to bring home this really hot blond he met in a bar and install her in the extra bedroom, which of course he will visit as he wishes.
His wife is absolutely adamantly opposed and says never ever ever. Obviously she is a conservative.
So then the man insists that the wife compromise.
His suggestion is that they compromise and have the blond in the extra bedroom only three nights a week.
Wife says “No way”.
Gee, she just does not understand the art of compromise. She is a Tea Party terrorist.
Moral to the story: There are some things about which you do not compromise even if it is a fight to the death.
Oh, good grief. This looney leftist has fallen right off the cliff. And they call us terrorists?
Carjacking now? Wow. Thats creative. I hope she didn’t strain her brain coming up with that one.
Its good however to see that the lefties are so dead set against all these
pathologies with which they now ceaselessly tar and feather us. They don’t seem to care though, about the root causes that make us become, -——well——plug in your favorite bad thing.
Carjacking now? Wow. Thats creative. I hope she didn’t strain her brain coming up with that one.
Its good however to see that the lefties are so dead set against all these
pathologies with which they now ceaselessly tar and feather us. They don’t seem to care though, about the root causes that make us become, -——well——plug in your favorite bad thing.
Yeah. Carjacking. As in GM and Chrysler. Guess she missed it.
Hey Ruth!
Where were you when they rammed through Obamacare?!?!?
THAT was dictatorial!
The Tea Party is the American response to that type of unilateral takeover!
Conservatives are under NO obligation to compromise!
Especially as compromise is the devil’s playground.
IF WE ARE CARJACKERS, THEN THE LEFT ARE HOME-INVASION ROBBERS.
Is IBD trying to commit suicide? I can find no other explanation, for a news organization that presumably wants to be viewed as a credible source, for them to continue to host this kind of jabberwocky.
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