[ex-snook]

New? This is the same Kabuki. Get real. Solve problems. About everything you buy is made with jobs elsewhere. Fix America not the world. Put Americans back to work again - earning money, buying things, paying taxes, getting rich and voting Republican.

[Vinnie]

The republicans are inept. I’ve lost any confidence in their ability to connect with the public, let alone win significant elections.
Just 2 days ago an RNC fundraiser called our house wanting money.
My wife set him straight.

‘If they don’t grow a set and stand up the Beezle, don’t bother us again.’

[alloysteel]

Another spectacular game of chicken.

The best one I ever saw was when at the approach, both participants chose to swerve to the LEFT simultaneously. A highly unlikely response, as every nerve is screaming, bear to the RIGHT, dummies!

We KNOW that the Current Occupant is hardwired to turn to the left, it is his response to everything. What we do not know is whether the GOP is willing to stay with the normal and natural tendency to swing to the right, with the hope that The Won will somehow recognize the serious nature of the situation, and overcome his lifelong reluctance to finally, in an act of amazing agility, overcome those reflexive responses, and do the right thing.

The upshot should gain the attention of everybody around the world.

[Wisconsinlady]

Based on what I have seen out of the Republicans since the election, they are acting like they loss EVERYTHING and have to cowtow to whatever Obama says.

They must have forgot that they DO have the House yet, and need to realize that and use it to their advantage. There is no doubt in my mind that we are going over the cliff-we might as well get it over quickly and put the blame on Obama.

[SkyPilot]

Republicans don't like the $500 billion defense spending cuts, but they can stomach them.

Well, isn't that special?

"They" can "stomach" them.

That is so generous of our Republican masters. The problem is the military cannot "stomach" them.

Dempsey: Sequestration Will Gut the Military

Air Force calls sequester cuts 'dangerous'

Sequestration already cutting into national defense

Defense secretary warns military readiness crisis coming if automatic budget cuts are allowed

Someone go back and read every single story in December and January about what the "Fiscal Cliff" was. It was defined as the tax raises AND the deep Sequestration cuts, especially to the military.

The ONLY thing they addressed was taxes. The Republicans didn't want to lift a finger about Sequestration and the devastation it would do to the military. It was Democrats who had to bring it up at the midnight hour.

Our military has already taken $450 Billion in cuts (over ten years) that started in 2001.

Sequestration is $600 Billion on top of that. This chart is before Sequestration.

Thanks a lot GOP "leadership!" Ronald Reagan you ain't.

So here is what the wonderful Republican "leadership" will allow:

- job losses of between 1 to 2 million

- breaking faith with our men and women in uniform

- degrading our military to dangerous levels

- furloughs of defense workers

- economic malaise

That sure is a terrific plan.

We need cuts in the give away programs. We are NOT going broke because of our military.

The real source of our debt problems (Entitlements and Welfare spending) are not addressed one iota.

Don't break your arms patting yourselves on the back.

[Will88]

Addressing immigration, he brought Fiona Zhou, a systems engineering graduate student whose chances to remain in the United States would improve if, as the House voted last year, more immigration slots were opened for foreigners with advance science, technology and engineering degrees.

Since when did it become some great tragedy if a foreigner grauduated from an American university and then returned home? This is such BS. During the Cold War years, we often heard how wonderful it was for foreigners to attend our universities, then they'd return home and become goodwill ambassdors for the US after their years living here.

Practically everything that comes out of the mouths of these amnesty pushers is some combination of nonsense, BS, and ouright lies and fabrications.