Come into my Parlor said the Spider
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like the GOP sellout is well under way.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/15/moon-nearly-lawmakers-washington-turn-sweet-talk/
From the Fox News article:
"Take Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He has vague but strong demands on getting his vote to raise the budget ceiling. But after two weeks of talks with Vice President Biden and a trot up Pennsylvania Avenue last week to meet with President Obama, McConnell is optimistically saying a deal can get done because both sides want it.
"You know, it is interesting that some of our biggest accomplishments in the last quarter of a century have been when you have divided government. Think of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill working together to save Social Security for another generation in 1983. Think of Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress balancing the budgets and passing welfare reform. This is actually a great opportunity to address this burgeoning problem," he said on CNN Sunday.
House Speaker John Boehner also briefly offered an olive branch in an interview aired Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"I'm ready to cut a deal today," Boehner, R-Ohio, said. "I've said, 'Mr. President, come on, you and I, let's lock arms and we'll jump out of the boat together.' I'm serious about dealing with this. And I hope he's just as serious."'
End excerpt.
This is a return to politics as usual; we will cut deals and, in the end, give up on any meaningful reform. It is exactly what the public did not want; the public gave the House of Representatives to the GOP in hopes of ending this stupidity. We didn't send these fools to Washington to make nice and stroke their "good friends" egoes.
Oh, and Speaker Boehner, we saw the last deal you cut; you said you were tricked, and I even believe you, but didn't you learn your lesson? You cut a few hundred million dollars out of a multi trillion dollar defecit.You aren't the guy to be making deals.
The article continues;
"On "Fox News Sunday," the talk was so cooperative that host Chris Wallace dubbed the conversation "television diplomacy." On several topics, Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, warmly agreed to meet and share ideas on everything from Medicare and tax reform to border security.
"I just listened very carefully to what Jon Kyl said. And I believe he has set the stage for us to enter into a meaningful conversation," Durbin said after Kyl announced he won't agree to raising taxes, but would consider eliminating loopholes in the business tax code that complicate calculating the bottom line.
"Democrats are prepared to talk about the future of major entitlement programs, reform that is not going to deny the basic protections, which we put in the programs, but acknowledges the fact that we have serious economic problems ahead of us if we don't have some reform in both Medicare and Social Security," Durbin said."
End excerpt.
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly!
These guys just never learn.
Looks like the GOP sellout is well under way.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/15/moon-nearly-lawmakers-washington-turn-sweet-talk/
From the Fox News article:
"Take Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He has vague but strong demands on getting his vote to raise the budget ceiling. But after two weeks of talks with Vice President Biden and a trot up Pennsylvania Avenue last week to meet with President Obama, McConnell is optimistically saying a deal can get done because both sides want it.
"You know, it is interesting that some of our biggest accomplishments in the last quarter of a century have been when you have divided government. Think of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill working together to save Social Security for another generation in 1983. Think of Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress balancing the budgets and passing welfare reform. This is actually a great opportunity to address this burgeoning problem," he said on CNN Sunday.
House Speaker John Boehner also briefly offered an olive branch in an interview aired Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"I'm ready to cut a deal today," Boehner, R-Ohio, said. "I've said, 'Mr. President, come on, you and I, let's lock arms and we'll jump out of the boat together.' I'm serious about dealing with this. And I hope he's just as serious."'
End excerpt.
This is a return to politics as usual; we will cut deals and, in the end, give up on any meaningful reform. It is exactly what the public did not want; the public gave the House of Representatives to the GOP in hopes of ending this stupidity. We didn't send these fools to Washington to make nice and stroke their "good friends" egoes.
Oh, and Speaker Boehner, we saw the last deal you cut; you said you were tricked, and I even believe you, but didn't you learn your lesson? You cut a few hundred million dollars out of a multi trillion dollar defecit.You aren't the guy to be making deals.
The article continues;
"On "Fox News Sunday," the talk was so cooperative that host Chris Wallace dubbed the conversation "television diplomacy." On several topics, Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, warmly agreed to meet and share ideas on everything from Medicare and tax reform to border security.
"I just listened very carefully to what Jon Kyl said. And I believe he has set the stage for us to enter into a meaningful conversation," Durbin said after Kyl announced he won't agree to raising taxes, but would consider eliminating loopholes in the business tax code that complicate calculating the bottom line.
"Democrats are prepared to talk about the future of major entitlement programs, reform that is not going to deny the basic protections, which we put in the programs, but acknowledges the fact that we have serious economic problems ahead of us if we don't have some reform in both Medicare and Social Security," Durbin said."
End excerpt.
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly!
These guys just never learn.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 6:05 AM
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