In case you haven’t been keeping up, today is the day that our great and good king, Barack Obama, summoned before him the two squabbling parties who have refused to act when it comes to deficit reduction, and demands of them that they reach some sort of agreement — most likely, something along the lines of $4 trillion in spending cuts over 12 years (which Obama will tout as the largest, most historic spending cut ever) in exchange for fixing “loopholes” in the tax code that unfairly drain revenue from the government by giving money back to the millionaires and billionaires, who then use it to fly private jets rather than spending it on job creation.
Because our great and good king is nothing if not fair — and nothing if not fiscally responsible: while the Congress has been running up the deficit, Obama has stood back and tried to allow the two parties to work things out; but things have gotten out of control, so it’s time for our great and good king to step in, play the adult, bring the two recalcitrant sides together, and, using a deft scalpel rather than a clumsy hatchet, both cut spending significantly and raise the revenue the government needs to fuel the recovery and create even more jobs than the 2+ million it already has.
Responsible leadership. Fiscal sanity. Social justice. This is the hallmark of our great and good king.
— At least, that’s what the media is hoping to tell you. What they won’t tell you is that $4 trillion in cuts accounts for less than half of the new spending baseline Obama has instituted by including the “one time” $800 billion in stimulus money in every new budget; nor that the spending cuts won’t really happen, as they didn’t under similar deals agreed to by Reagan and Bush the elder; nor that it is Obama himself who ran up the deficit so enormously that he can now position himself as the greatest spending cutter in the history of ever!
When you own the media, you set the premises. Which is why, thanks in large part to a complicit, leftwing advocacy media, we no longer live in a free country — even as we’re all conditioned to go on pretending that we do.
Have a nice day, slaves.
Emperor Obamulus and his obsequeous media courtiers think we’re stupid.
The Establishment GOP gives them every reason to believe so.
My local news keeps telling me about the state shutdown, and how many state workers are laid off ’til a budget gets passed in St Paul, and I just laugh and laugh, because everyone knows that we ALL work for the State.
I saw Cantor on CNBC this morning – he seemed fairly adamant on the no tax increase thing. OK, I have heard the words, now show me the action…
Strangely I was under the impression that the Minnesota legislature passed a budget.
Hey there, Obama is on our side in this.
Oh, wait, we are to be on his side. Ruler’s rules.
Boehner’s the same way.
$4T in spending cuts over 12 years sounds like a lot until you consider that at our current rate of overspending it’s going to need to be more like $20T. Probably more.
They did. The limo-liberal inheritor of incredible wealth governor doesn’t like it, because it doesn’t spend enough.
I get around hearing about the shutdown by not watching the local news. Win-win, I say.
Reports on Cantor though the reporter seems quite biased in his language use.
The House should offer Obama a version of the deal Tip O’Neill and Jim Wright offered Reagan and Bush I: “We’ll do what we want now, and we promise to do what you want in some far-off make-believe future that pissants like David Brooks insist will actually happen, someday. But, you know, won’t.”
They won’t raise taxes. But they are looking for other ways to raise “revenue.” Which will be a backdoor tax or taxes of some sort.
Better they should refuse to accept the premise altogether and note that revenue is not the problem. Overspending is. Therefore, a decrease in revenue helps the spending problem — as does a failure to allow the debt limit to increase. No need to complicate this: Boehner and McConnell can explain it to the American people in easy soundbites using nothing more than personal checking accounts as the analogy.
America doesn’t need more monies cause of it doesn’t spend the money it already has responsibly.
Bruce Bartlett thinks we’re all nutters. He’s a true conservative — the kind who backs Obama and thinks a debt ceiling is stupid and unconstitutional.
who then use it to fly private jets rather than spending it on job creation
Except for the jobs of the people who build, maintain, and fly private jets, the selfish bastages.
I get around hearing about the shutdown by not watching the local news. Win-win, I say.
Praise be for 24-hour weather channels!
But on the other hand, Bruce Bartlett appears to be, and I use this term with all due respect, “a lying sack of shit.”
So, grain of salt and all that.
The only time I see the local news people (well, weather people mostly) is during one of our exciting severe weather incidents.
There is nothing in my life that I miss less than watching television.
While the Good King and his Loyal Minstrels might be screaming Default! Default! Default! his Lord High Exchequer is quietly working on Plan B.
Though coming from al-Reuters I wonder if this is some kind of ploy.
“Non Servitum! I cried, and plunged into the pit…”
What the fuck happened to Bruce Bartlett? Anybody know?
And raising the debt ceiling hasn’t a damn thing to do with servicing the existing debt.
I thought he didn’t like it because it didn’t raise taxes on those greedy millions per year earning sumbitches who can afford to sacrifice more for the common good but won’t do it because they’re selfish bastards who hate little people.
And because it’s a Republican budget, and he needs to show Minnesotans who’s boss.
And here I thought it was because he is the kid about which a father says “Boy, the best part of you ran down your mother’s leg.”
oh looky here another way scott walker is saving wi taxpayer’s money:
link
Speaking of leadership, real leadership in this case, The Undefeated trailer is up at Breitbart.
powerline steve digs this one out
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Hey! I’ll have you know I’m only a part time slave!
I slave for four months, and the rest of the year I’m allowed to keep my wages.
Which I spend on government approved activity.
So what if a millionaire has to slave seven months? He’s still allowed to keep way more money than me!
No, it’s the same old fearmongering shit:
Yes, it’s the ol’ Washington Monument Gambit: “If the Park Service might get their budget cut they don’t tell the press about any obscure cuts, they say, “we’ll have to close the Washington Monument!”” Nevermind that there’s plenty of money to cover debt service plus SocSec, Medicare, Veteran’s benefits and other critical expenses if they furlough a bunch of supernumerary government employees, bring the National Guard and Reserve troops home, stop buying stuff the military doesn’t even want because it’s made in some powerful Congressman’s district, and, yes, close the Washington Monument. No, faced with a possible shortage of Other Peoples’ Money they’ll threaten to make the cuts as painful as possible.
Bring it on I say. Despite Obama’s attempt to pass the buck — “I don’t think we should even get to the constitutional issue,” he said. “Congress has a responsibility to make sure we pay our bills. We’ve always paid them in the past.” — It’s the administration and the Treasury that must decide which bills to pay, not Congress. Watching that decision process would be.. enlightening.
“Watching that decision process would be.. enlightening.“Something else for a certain someone to watch over.
Unfortunately, Debt Ceiling Cat has a lot of Basement Cats to keep an eye on….
haha America Obama just kicked your puny-assed “recovery” in the fucking balls!!!
suck it, losers!
Another kick. Obama, going to beat down that recovery if it’s the last thing he does as Pezedent.
it doesn’t matter where you work it doesn’t matter even if you’re a union whore or not your cocksucking president is coming for you and he will Fuck. You. Up.
That’s okay. Farmers have co-ops, not unions.
I’d be interested to know how 2005 sulfur dioxide emissions compared to 1985 levels; just to see how they differed from the days when they were still scaring the kids with teh ACID RAIN.
Because teh NEW ICE AGE! was a bust, and they had yet to invent teh OZONE HOLE! and teh GLOBAL WARMING!
but what about the pitiful union whores what make the farm equipments and the stuff farmers would buy with their earnings?
they’re ass-raped by their cocksucking president is what!
Boo and also yah I think.
I don’t know. I’d guess that as long as farmers can continue to depreciate their existing farm equipments, they’ll continue to buy new stuff. And as for lost earnings, well, that’s why we’ll need another farm bill loaded chockablock with price supports.
At least until it’s time for the kulaks to collectivize. Then those greedy sumbitches will get what’s coming to them for all those years of fleecing the hardworking american taxpayer!
wheels within wheels
ohnoes Mr. Ernst! Noted senile obamawhore warren buffett has discerned a hostage situation!
hey no fairs not letting geriatric warren’s cocksucky president spend like a lottery-winning crack whore you darn hostage-takers
Better example here of how unions aren’t getting what they paid for.
At least not the rank and file. But them pigs are the less equal ones.
So there you go.
this is just like how the socialists ass-raped the boat industry back in the 90s – it never really recovered! Poor union whores. Had to get retrained to make airplanes. Oh crap!
here is a link for how the socialists ass-raped America’s once-robust boat industry
Warren Buffet is either an idiot or a shill for the administration. He may indeed be both. If he’s saying that we need to be able to borrow more money in order to pay the fucking interest on the money we’ve already borrowed, then I’m glad I’m not a Berkshire-Hathaway investor.
Maybe he should shut the hell up before shareholders start thinking like me.
warren buffett hates America
As with Obama, what warren says we should do is not what he does in his own private life. There are the ways for him and the ways for the peons. We be the peed-on-s.
Seriously though. The argument for raising the debt ceiling is like me or you asking our parents to co-sign for a new credit card because we can’t get one without a co-signer, and if we don’t get one we won’t be able to make our minimum payments on the twenty other cards we already have.
Why the jeeneyussez at the RNC haven’t already seen that analogy is beyond me.
Must be because they’re professional Republicans.
I think Warren’s been replaced by one of Soros’s fembots.
Someone should ask Mr. Buffett how many companies in the B-H portfolio have run at a loss 37 of the last 40 years and going forward are expected to lose money every year as far as the eye can see. A lot of companies with a negative P/E you’ve invested in Mr. Bullshit?
I’m guessing the U.S. of A is one, motionview.
Either that, or, like I said, fembot.
You would think with all those billions Ernst he could afford a fembot that didn’t look like Droopy.
The fembot had to look like Droopy, because Droopy is whose place the fembot took motionview.
“. It’s time to clean up dirty exhausts that travel long distances, and 75 percent of Americans will breathe healthier air as a result.”
i quit smoking for the children. take that you libtard losers.
Now it’s all clear to me. How do I know you are not a fembot Ernst? Wait a minute, how do I know …
How do I know you are not a fembot Ernst?
Check the jubblies. Duh.