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Frick and Frack Shoot Off Their Mouths 11/5/2010 9:25:21 AM
Boehner and McConnell might want to tone down the
rhetoric.
Frick and Frack Shoot Off Their Mouths
Voters may be experiencing buyer’s remorse. Three days after the election, corporate toadies John Boehner and Mitch O’Connell strutted and preened across the national stage, threatening investigation of the Obama administration and repeal of the Health Care plan if they had to send legislation to Obama every day. Must’ve forgotten they need the Senate to approve, and they ain’t gonna do it. They say they’ll deny funding for various aspects of the plan. But most of it won’t be implemented until 2014.
McConnell said his first priority was to insure that Obama was a one-term president. Could’ve sworn that every Republican candidate ran on creating more jobs. Coincidentally, jobs increased by 166,000 in October. So . . . is it true the stimulus plan is not working?
Two can play this game. First off, Obama needs a new press secretary. Gibbs’ successor needs to slam these two clowns every time they open their yaps. Secondly, the attorney general also has subpoena power. There isn’t a Republican in the country who doesn’t have skeletons in his/her closet (Does Michelle Bachmann even have a legitimate law degree? She went to Oral Roberts, you know, which lost its accreditation). Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, the hypocritical Christian Coalition leader, Ralph Reid (who coincidentally led Bush’s Southeastern reelection campaign, are just a few of the bad seeds. Abramoff just got out of jail; he’ll be running for office as a tea bagger candidate in short order. Gingrich thinks he’s a legitimate presidential candidate. He was a married man having an affair while criticizing Clinton for his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.
Boehner may also want to watch his back with elfish Eric Cantor as his major domo. He might find a dirk in his back one of these days. After the Health Care demonstrations where Teabaggers spit on black congressmen and waved racist signs, Cantor claimed someone threw a rock through his window and made threatening phone calls. As Joe Wilson would say, “You lie!” Sounds like the time Karl Rove tried to improve George W. Bush’s intellectual credibility by claiming he read a book once a week. Since then Bush has admitted the only book he read after 9/11 was a baseball book.
These clowns seem to have forgotten that Obama has the upper hand when it comes to renewal of the Bush tax cuts (He cut taxes while at the same time borrowing two trillion from the Chinese to fight his war in Iraq, essentially doubling the national debt). Renewal of the tax cuts would significantly add to the national debt. Since the Middle Class broke the covenant with Obama by either voting for the opposition or not voting at all, Obama owes them nothing. If I were him, I’d let both the cuts for the rich and the middle class lapse, which would definitely cut the deficit (It also might plunge us back into recession, but I doubt it since corporations aren’t paying the 35% in taxes they’re supposed to be paying anyway. The middle class got peanuts in the first place. Maybe enough to pay for one trip to the grocery store if you were lucky).
Obama also has two months to pass important legislation under the lame duck congress. You better believe the GOP would do it if the shoe were on their foot. McConnell just said they would. This election probably means a death knell for the deficit reduction committee which was supposed to report at the end of the year. Rumor had it they’d recommend a VAT tax or value added tax, a form of consumption tax. It’s “a tax on the estimated market value added to a product or material at each stage of its manufacture or distribution, ultimately passed on to the consumer.” A sales tax is a tax on only the consumer. France takes in 50% of its federal revenue from VAT. VAT would greatly reduce our national deficit. Republicans prefer the 13 trillion dollar deficit.
I was a little tough on the Middle Class earlier. I mean, some of them did vote for Democratic candidates; some of them did show up to vote. Can’t say the same for the young Obama voters. Something like eleven percent of eligible youngsters actually voted. Good luck getting a student loan. You’re not Paris Hilton; you’re not a Walton heir. You might not believe Obama has kept his promises, but that’s no reason to hand the keys to the fire house to the arsonists.
