SO THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS COMPROMISE???

So now our less than stellar House and Senate Democrats are once again defining the rules by which they play the game of compromise. You see, they are now saying that they are completely opposed to any fiscal cliff deal that would cut Medicare or Medicaid, and they are making it plain to both the White House and House Republicans that they will fervently oppose any plan that would cut federal health care programs. "We’re not budging on Medicare, and we’re not budging on Medicaid," Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, said at a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday. So once again we are seeing how it is that slimy Democrats define compromise. As complete capitulation by the Republicans. And most likely with Boehner leading the charge on our side they'll probably get it. Because that's how our side views 'compromise' as well. As caving to the demands made by unscrupulous Democrats. Just once I wish we'd have someone on our side with just a little backbone, just enough to tell these flaming hypocrites to go fu*k themselves. But I' sure that's more than just little wishful thinking on my part. Our guys seem content in allowing themselves to be told what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Which may be fine for them, I guess, but it kind of leaves the rest of us out to dry.

This douche bag, Rockefeller, said that he was "nervous" about the secret talks taking place between Barry "Almighty" and Speaker John 'Boner', because they might result in a deal where cuts to health care entitlements are traded for high tax rates on wealthier Americans, a deal that this imbecile Rockefeller actually called "amoral." He said, "I get nervous when two people disappear into a White House room and start making a grand alliance and they go ‘well, we’re going to do this to rich, and we’re going to do that to the poor, so we’ll just make that tradeoff’ and as Tom Harkin says that is amoral. It’s amoral. You cannot do it." Harkin, himself another rather dim bulb who long ago outlived any usefulness he may have at one time had, summed up the message of House and Senate Democrats by telling fiscal cliff negotiators to "keep your hands off" Medicare and Medicaid. "We’ve basically come here this morning to say one thing: To all these negotiators who are now negotiating on this so-called fiscal cliff, keep your hands off Medicare, and keep your hands off Medicaid." And then we had the head of the Congressional 'Bonehead' Caucus (CBC), Elijah Cummings who went so far as to call Medicaid cuts a "human rights issue," saying that any fiscal cliff deal that included cuts to the program would be unacceptable.

"There’s a reason that Medicaid was protected from sequestration – this program is truly a lifeline for those in need, and we in this room will do everything in our power to protect it," Cummings said. Hw went on to say, "This is about what is right. This is about taking care of our own. I believe Medicaid is a human rights issue." And then there was Chris Van Hollen, ranking member on the House Budget Committee, said that Medicaid in particular was a program for the "vast middle class" and that cutting it would harm working Americans who depend on government health care. "It’s [Medicaid] also a program that benefits the vast middle class. A lot of people don’t realize that while the majority of people covered by Medicaid are poor children, the majority of the money spent in Medicaid is on seniors and individuals with disabilities, a lot of middle-income families who find themselves in precarious financial situations, and they rely on Medicaid for their long-term care," he said. "Families that are going along very well and all of a sudden one of their kids is involved in a tragic accident," Van Hollen said. "They depend on Medicaid." My response to that is, too bad! I'd like to tell these morons that, "We're broke!" And it's primarily because these same characters very purposely set out to bring about an complete collapse of our entire financial and economic system.

Boehner and Barry reportedly met over this last weekend to begin talks to avert the fiscal cliff scenario of indiscriminate spending cuts and large tax increases on all Americans that are scheduled to kick in at the beginning of next year. Both the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office have forecast that unless Congress and the White House can manage to find sufficient common ground, the economy will plunge back into recession. Some, I suppose, would say, we've never come out of the recession that began shortly after Barry "Almighty's" coronation. But be that as it may, where is it that we go from here. Do we just roll over like always, surrender our principles to prevent being blamed? We're going to be blamed regardless, so I say let's just call their bluff. Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, we had someone on our side who possessed the requisite backbone to do just that. Look, our whole economic/financial system is going to come crashing down like the proverbial house of cards anyway, and most likely no too longer than right after the New Year. So if we're going to go down anyway, shouldn't we at least go down swinging? And I read something just the other day about how Barry was said to be quite confident that Republicans would cave on taxes. You know, just once I'd like to see the Democrats made to cave on something.