And that advice is...JUST SAY NO! With Barry, through the exhibiting of his stellar leadership ability, having essentially done nothing more than to vote present throughout pretty much the entire discussion on the budget and the raising of the debt ceiling, why should Republicans be placed on the receiving of any blame for the little, if any, progressing having been made thus far regarding these issues. Barry continues to demonstrate a complete lack of seriousness in the way he chooses to address our current budget crisis and the debt ceiling and has essentially accomplished nothing more than the throwing the ongoing talks into complete turmoil. He did just that on Monday afternoon, when he proposed a $600 billion tax hike before even meeting with Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. You have to ask, what might have been his rationale for doing so just as Democrats and Republicans seemed to be inching toward some sort of an agreement that would stave off the prospect of a default on the nation’s debts. Might it be nothing more than a blatant attempt by Barry to do nothing more than to purposefully sabotage the talks by introducing a measure that he has got to know is sure to have the GOP howling in opposition? As we all know, everything this narcissistic psychopath does is based solely on his attempt to create some sort of political advantage for himself. He's scum and it's the only way he knows. So now we will see if the rubber in fact meets the road as we will now get to see just how resolute the Republicans are in they're opposing of any tax hikes.
This latest monkey wrench that Barry has now thrown into the works drew much scorn from conservatives. "The Democrats’ insistence on touting their desire to 'end tax breaks to oil and gas companies' is becoming quite tiresome," wrote Andrew Stiles at the National Review's website. "It’s basically their only specific new tax proposal, but would amount to saving of just $21 billion over a decade. That’s a long way to $600 billion." Other conservatives also were quick to ridicule the idea that the White House could actually be taking such a proposal seriously. "The White House has proposed raising about $600 billion in new tax revenue, including ending subsidies to oil and gas companies, an idea that failed in the Senate," wrote Bryan Preston at the conservative PJ Tattler blog on Pajamas Media. "It failed in a Democrat-controlled Senate, and with good reason: It’s a terrible idea. I was at first tempted to post a hoary old Admiral Ackbar – “It’s a trap!” graphic on this story, but it doesn’t really merit that," Preston continued. "Calling it a trap at least implies that the GOP might fall for it. Honestly, I don’t see that happening. So if it’s not a trap, what is this? For one thing, it’s the Democrats’ answer to everything. For another, it’s class warfare, which is also the Democrats’ answer to everything." To throw this thing out there, knowing full well there is little chance of becoming a reality, just lends even more credence to the fact that it is nothing more than way to scuttle the talks so that Barry can then turn around and blame the Republicans for the talks failing.
The move came at a time after Republicans had signaled that they were finally prepared to talk about cuts to military spending, one of the major roadblocks to agreement. “When we say everything is on the table, that’s what we mean,” House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said before Barry’s announcement. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who makes Robert Gibbs look like damn near a genius, announced the tax proposals after Barry met Senate Majority Leader "Dingy" Harry Reid on Monday morning before he was due to meet McConnell later in the day in a bid to find “common ground.” Common ground? How is it possible to discuss achieving some "common ground" with a low life like Barry. It's not going to happen. These little get-togethers mark the first time that Barry has taken it upon himself to get personally involved in any of the debt ceiling talks. Carney said that Barry remains hopeful that the two sides can come to an agreement but said Republicans have to realize that some taxes must go up. "It's the only way to get it done," Carney said. Sounds like a bit of an ultimatum to me. I'd be telling Barry, "UP YOURS!" Among Barry’s proposals were an end to tax breaks for big companies and the richest and taxing equity and hedge fund managers on income tax rates rather than capital gains tax rates. Other changes include changing depreciation rules on corporate jets, limiting itemized deductions for the wealthy and repealing a tax benefit that companies use for inventory accounting. Barry's focus in rectifying the current situation remains very firmly headed in the wrong direction. He continues to refuse to cut spending at the levels that it MUST be cut. This is maddening. I guess he feels that if he can resist spending cuts long enough the Republicans will simply cave as they have in the past and he'll get his tax increases in exchange for some very minimal spending cuts.
Earlier the Republicans were making it clear that such tax increases are the only point on which there can be no negotiation, so Barry’s move seems almost assured to stall the talks once more. But like I said earlier, that's his plan. McConnell said, "It is my hope that the president will take those off the table today so that we can have a serious discussion about our country's economic future." Old Mitch is living in a dream world if thinks Barry is going to alter his plan of attack. It ain't gonna happen, this is how Barry plays the game. He's been working like a madman for the last two years to get us right here, with us now being flat busted broke. Barry has just five weeks to bring the two sides to an agreement that will allow the country to raise the $14.3 trillion ceiling before August 2 or risk defaulting on its debts. And yet I can't help but think that that is exactly what he wants to have happen. Last week, bipartisan talks led by "Slow Joe" Biden fell apart when the GOP representatives walked out. House Speaker John Boehner insisted the increase in the debt limit must be offset with spending cuts without any tax hikes. "These are the realities of the situation," he said. "If the president and his allies want the debt limit increased, it is only going to happen via a measure that meets these tests." And McConnell added, “Throwing more tax revenue into the mix is not going to produce a desirable result, and it won't pass. Putting aside that Republicans don't like to raise taxes, Democrats don't either."
Speaking, I guess, for the Democrats, "Dipstick" Carney said, "We won't support an approach that gives millionaires and billionaires $200,000 tax cuts annually while 33 seniors pay for that with $6,000 per person increase in their Medicare costs.” This is the same crap that we hear from these guys over and over and over. When all else fails they pull the class warfare card. We need to go after all of those greedy old millionaires and billionaires and fleece them of every dime they have as we watch the economy continue to move even deeper into the crapper. "Slow Joe" had been leading the talks that had involved Rep. Eric Cantor and Sen. Jon Kyl on the GOP side and Sens. Max Baucus and Daniel Inouye along with Reps. James "The Tea Party is Racist" Clyburn and Chris Van Holland for the Democrats. But they came to a screeching halt when Cantor walked out on Thursday and Kyl followed close behind. Carney said the involvement of the president, and the leaders of the two parties in both the Senate and the House had always been inevitable. "It is not as though this negotiating group could simply declare into law what they agreed on,” he said. “The process was always going to have to proceed out of the negotiating room and move forward with the engagement of the speaker, Senate leaders, the House minority leader, the president, et cetera." Before Barry's little stunner, both sides seemed to be softening. Republicans had started to talk of military cuts in recent days, especially as troops prepare to leave both Afghanistan and Iraq. So, with Republicans being to show a certain degree of flexibility, Barry saw the need to throw a grenade making a preemptive strike, of sorts, in an effort to create a new roadblock that he was sure the Republicans would reject. His goal here seems to be to stall any talks so that he can then portray the Republicans as being the obstructionists here and thus attempt to portray them as being solely responsible for any potential default.
Previously defense spending had been seen as non-negotiable within the GOP. But recent news stories that revealed the military is spending $20 billion a year in air conditioning costs alone have suggested there may be some room for cuts at the Pentagon. Freshman GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, an active-duty Air National Guardsman who flew missions in Iraq, acknowledged in the Washington Post that defense spending is “a pillar of Republican strength.” But he added, “Look, I know there are sacred cows, but we cannot afford them anymore,” And another Republican, Rep. Robert Hurt of Virginia added, “I would never support anything that would reduce the safety of the troops on the ground. But bureaucracy is bureaucracy, and there are ways to get at it, even in the Pentagon.” Look, I can understand these guys taking this position, but at the same time there is absolutely no reciprocation from those on the left regarding their own "sacred cows." And this is the way it always is. Republicans must always agree to cuts in their favored areas while the Democrats do not. Word has to go that until a little more compromise is seen as coming from those on the left, there will be none coming from those on the right. This cannot be allowed to deteriorate into what is essentially a one way street, where Republicans are expected to capitulate while Barry and the Democrats do nothing more than to make endless demands.
To be fair, and with leaving Barry completely out of the discussion, Democrats have moved too. Before he left the talks, Cantor had even praised them for finding $2 trillion in cuts over 10 years. Now the prospect of any agreement may leave Boehner with the most to lose, should things got further off the tracks thanks to Barry. Which, I still argue, was his intent all along. Barry simply cannot be trusted. He's a liar and is patently dishonest. So now many pundits have come to believe that Cantor’s decision to quit the talks was a politically motivated bid to score points with Tea Party members and other conservatives in the GOP. I'm not going to question Mr. Cantor's motives yet, but this has got to be a team effort, and if it is shown that this was nothing more than an effort to score points, it was a very foolish, and juvenile prank to pull at a most inopportune time. “The speaker is now politically exposed to fire from every direction as he goes into the final phase of negotiations with President Obama and the Democrats,” so said Fox News "analyst," Juan Williams writing in The Hill. And of course, as always, we can always expected to hear an objective viewpoint coming from our friend Juan who can always be counted on to utter his usual harsh words for all conservatives, this time directing them at Cantor, saying he “threw Boehner under the bus,” by leaving the talks and telling The Wall Street Journal before informing leaders of his own party. “Now there is a new and profoundly rude way to announce a political divorce,” wrote Williams. Williams is a joke, and a very well-known enthusiastic cheerleader and a true blue supporter of Barry and his socialist policies, to the point of having now reduced himself to the equivalent of a pathetic lapdog. He went on to say, “The bottom line is that Cantor’s decision to abdicate any pretense of being a political leader set a trap for Boehner."
But old Juan's opinion, notwithstanding, the political implications are also huge for Barry "Almighty", who won’t want to go into next year’s election as the president who allowed the country to go into default because he was essentially being nothing more stubborn. A Gallup poll last week showed his approval rating has now slumped to 45 percent, trailing his disapproval rating of 48 percent. A poll from The Hill earlier this month showed 48 percent of likely voters believe he has hurt the economy, and only 41 percent think he’s helped it. Hurt it? Hell, he's killed it! Ya know, I'd like to meet some of the morons who must make up a pretty large portion of that 41 percent, because they must be some truly enlightened individuals. Most are, most likely, blacks who continue to see Barry as someone who can do no wrong. Whether or not there has been a trap set for the Speaker, we cannot allow Barry to simply make demands, with our response being first to complain and then to cave to those demands while saying things would have been worse had we not done so. That's no way to run railroad or a government. As much as Barry would like to think is on the same level as his buddies Chavez or Fidel, in being able to dictate to the rest of us just how things will go, but lucky for us, he's not. And he needs to be reminded of that fact in the most forceful of ways. The time to start that process is now and the time to finish it will come on Election Day, November 2012.
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