The Spag Report

Getting Rooked

America just got rooked by both parties. There will be no debt reduction and the can is kicked down the road again for my kids to pay or until it all comes crashing down like Greece, whichever comes first.

So much for all of that campaign talk about a "balanced approach" to debt reduction- how about "no approach?"

The rich get soaked a little more, but that isn't even close to the heart of my concern. That was just "boob bait for Bubba's" and assorted other morons who fell for the idea that raising taxes on 1% of the population by 4% would make a difference in reducing the deficit. The problem is the debt, and the GOP just made it clear that they have no backbone.

For over a decade, the GOP has too often picked the wrong battles to fight and too frequently retreated from the right ones.

I've been a registered Republican since April of 1988, a month after I turned 18. But no more. I will switching my registration to independent this week.

 

 

(P.S., I wasn't referring to Bubba Grenier)

 

 

 

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He Did Build This

Rand Paul: We Should Let Dems Raise Taxes And Then Let Them Own It.

"Why don't we let the Democrats pass whatever they want? If they are the party of higher taxes, all the Republicans vote present and let the Democrats raise taxes as high as they want to raise them, let Democrats in the Senate raise taxes, let the president sign it and then make them own the tax increase. And when the economy stalls, when the economy sputters, when people lose their jobs, they know which party to blame, the party of high taxes. "

I agree with Paul on this. Ann Coulter has made a similar suggestion. The simple fact is that Obama's tax increase will only pay for about 8 days of running the country.

It will have little or no effect on the deficit, and will likely make the economy worse.

Obama campaigned on tax increases "on the rich" as the centerpiece of his economic platform, somehow convincing voters that if "rich" people pay more money that will somehow create more jobs and/or put more money in the pockets of "not rich" people- a sort of economic osmosis.

Further, Obama touted this as a responsible deficit reduction plan.

So let him have his tax increase and let him own it as Paul suggests. It may not be a disaster, but it sure isn't going to make things any better.

One Of The Greats

The Plot Thickens

Tangled web of deception:

"Sometimes a dastardly conspiracy is just a dastardly conspiracy. Indeed the Benghazi episode, at least the response to the attack, is beginning to look more and more like the work of a partisan cabal afraid of upsetting the president’s reelection prospects, exactly as conservative critics have been saying for two months."