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| Eric Cantor and the GOP's Monstrous Lies, Incompetencies, and Idiots |
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This is Dark Cloud on Wednesday, January 05, 2011. Today, Wednesday, January 5th, 1941, sorry, 2011, is a day that will live in memory, perhaps to lunch. For today, a Republican majority takes over one half of one third of the federal government. This has the idiots - by which I mean the Tea Bagger Wing of the Republican Party - prancing up and down on the balls of their feet, much like a young mother did long ago in 1996 when she first appeared to the wondering eyes of the world. Here she is in the Anchorage Daily News for April 3 of that year, explaining why she made the journey from Wasilla to the Anchorage J.C. Pennys to see a former Mrs. Donald Trump. ''We want to see Ivana,'' said And that, face it, is indeed the reason the few supposed Tea Partiers are ecstatic today being sworn in. They are so desperate for any semblance of glamour and culture that they pandered for a Sarah Palin endorsement, which didn't resonate with the voters in the lower 48 any more than it did in Alaska, where Palin backed Joe Miller sits alone today and awaits his own visit from the glamorous and culcha'ed. Eric Cantor, the Virginia Congressman and new House majority leader, must have depressed the Tea Baggers when he announced the GOP majority's governing philosophy. It seems the GOP will focus on creating jobs and cutting spending, with a sound byte at the ready, which is "cut and grow." Aren't Tea Baggers trying to get government out of the private sector and creating jobs? Isn't that for hairy chested real he-man conservatives like themselves to do in the private sector? Yeah, maybe with tax breaks and subsidies and utilizing federal public information, but without any government, ya know? Cantor pledges to cut spending by $100 billion, back to the 2008 levels for nondefense spending. But this time it would also include defense cuts. "Everyone is going to have to do more with less," says Cantor. And his big target, on paper, is the Obama health care reform. The big conflict here is that the GOP wants the image of repealing the health care reform without having to answer to the voters for it as the benefits are now coming on line. Since January 1, for example, all health insurance companies have to accord 80% of their income to serving their clients, which makes you shudder to consider what the percentage was before. According to the Congressional Budget Office, that reform of Obama's administration has already, on paper, saved $140 billion over the next 10 years. Cantor says the nonpartisan office is inaccurate, and plans to substitute new accounting rules. But this is just smoke. Repealing health-care reform would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and, says the Washington Post, Eric Cantor knows it. So the GOP's pandering to ignorance has produced a quandary for themselves. They've spent a lot of time claiming that the health care reform increases the deficit, and now they can't evade the truth that they've lied and misinformed. They cannot be for repealing health care reform and budget reduction. Of course, they know anything they pass won't fly in the Senate, and even if it did Obama would veto it. But they want to be seen standing up to this uppity colored fellow in front of their base, because they're just about all from the Olde South. One of Cantor's new rules says that any new legislation must be paid for. Great. The health-care bill reduces the deficit by that $140 billion in the next decade alone. But they don't want the public to understand this, so how to brag about the new fiscal responsibility rule and yet irresponsibly overturn health care reform? Simple. They've decided to simply exempt health care from the rules, meaning they're beginning the 112th Congress by a subterfuge to push a bill they hope won't pass beyond House chambers because it will increase the deficit contrary to their own claims. Actually, because Reagan taught them deficits don't matter, they don't care about the reality, just the image, the lie, the votes. As the certified morons debating for the Chairmanship of the Republican Party demonstrated this week in a show to horrify even a remotely educated electorate, the GOP has become delusional beyond the pale. The Republican Party at this point is institutionalized WASP rot despite Michael Steele, and sadly true that a visit to Congress from Ivana Trump would still and actually glamorize their lives and perhaps provide some improved political goals, skills, and ethics. |
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