agreed. especially the democrats certainly don’t care about defense cuts. most WANT them.
we had Obama over the barrel on the debt ceiling.
instead we gave him 2.4 trillion,
and put conservatives over the barrel,
with huge defense cuts.
...which is why that bill was such a disaster.
the Dems win either way. they get tax increases,
or they get big defense cuts on the GOP’s head.
thanks to the great victory of Boehner and Col West.
According to AR Rep Tim Griffin at a Tea Party meeting last week both sides want the same thing, just have different “strategies” on how to get there.
After listening for 2 hrs what became clear was
these Boehner/McConnel Repubs
1) truly value “Compimise” and have mistaken cutting a deal with true principled leadership
2) both parties are only concerned with increasing tax “revenue” for increased spending - Dems by robbing the rich and giving to the poor (their constituency) Reps by “lowering tax rates” to stimulate growth thereby increasing “revenues” for their constituency (Defense, big business)
3)Neither party has a problem with confiscating wealth from working Americans to feed their spending “jones”,
4)both parties seek re-election, they see re-election by granting favors as an honorable goal
5)This is why they caved, the only way both sides could keep passing out the graft was to raise the debt ceiling and move cuts out ten years - Dems wouldn’t cut, Reps wouldn’t raise tax rates, had to feed their habit.
6) Neither party has any desire to cap spending, stop borrowing, pay off the national debt, lower taxes (there is a difference between lower tax rates -affects me individually, and lower total taxes - letting Americans keep their hard earned wealth).