Well, might we have now been witness to yet another demonstration of what, these days, has come to be easily recognized as being the rather squishy brand of leadership that has become what's to be expected from our congressional Republicans? And once again it was Eric Cantor who again put on quite the display of talking without really saying anything, when he stated in an interview on "Fox News Sunday," that House Republicans could be amenable to a sequester deal if cuts to entitlement programs are part of the package, reports the Hill. I mean, haven’t we been down this road, and far too many times, already?
Cantor said, "What we need to have happen is leadership on the part of this president and the White House, to come to the table finally and say 'we're going to fix the underlying problem that's driving our deficit." Cantor went on to say, "We know that is the entitlement programs and the unfunded liability that they are leaving on this generation and the next." But if there is anything that we should have learned by now it's that that bothers the Democrats very little. And we also know that, as they have demonstrated far too many times to count, Democrats have zero interest in imposing ANY cuts in spending, no matter how small.
Let's not forget, now, that this entire sequester scheme was totally of Barry's making. It went into effect earlier this year and imposed what was really a rather paltry $44 Billion in across-the-board spending cuts but left entitlement programs such as social security and Medicare virtually untouched. Cantor said, "This fall is going to give us a great opportunity, I think, to all come together and try and tackle the real problem, which is the entitlements." Look, I don't know if he's naïve or simply stupid, but I think it safe to say that neither Barry, nor the Democrats in Congress, have any interest whatsoever in actually coming together to do anything.
Now according to the Huffington Post, which as we all know is a less than reliable source whenever discussing the Republican Party, Cantor believes spending cuts will only come about through direct bipartisan talks and not the heavy-handed implementation of sequester. "We've always said sequester is not the best way to go about spending reductions," Cantor said. "It was, as you know, a default mechanism, because Congress couldn't do the job it was supposed to a couple of years ago." Heavy-handed implementation of sequester? We're only talking about $44 Billion! I always get nervous when I hear such talk.
I'm nervous because whenever anyone of our 'leaders' start talking like this I get the rather uneasy feeling that I'm about to get screwed. That I'm in the midst of another one of those efforts designed to prepare us all for another vintage cave by our less than stellar group of supposed leaders. I just get so tired of being played for a fool by these guys in their $1000 suits who are supposed to be there to act on our behalf, not theirs. And we can only assume that they must think that we're stupid enough to fall for their antics. So, perhaps next November might just provide to us the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to them, that we're NOT!
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