Will Democrats cave, I mean compromise and give them the domestic spending cuts they want?
Or, will TeaPublicans compromise for the sake of the country and kiss their Tea Party support bye bye?
Let's be clear, although the TeaPublicans claim this is about cutting spending and creating jobs it's about social issues that have nothing to do with creating jobs.
It's about the super rich not wanting to pay their fair share of taxes.
It's about defunding planned parenthood in an attempt to come between poor women and their doctors so they can have children they can't afford and be forced to go on welfare...oops they want to cut welfare too.
It's about controlling the public airways and defunding National Public Radio so Americans will know what they want us to know instead of what we need to know in order to make informed decisions.
It's about sending them there illegals back to Mexico except the ones who work for republicans.
It's NOT about spending, because if they really wanted to cut spending, balance the budget and reduce the deficit they would defund the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Lybia.
Booman's Steven D offers a serious plan to avoid a shutdown
First, l agree to all your tax cuts as one means to solve our deficit problem. A problem by the way that is oh so much more important than jobs or unemployment or providing essential government services like social security, medicare, medicaid, environmental protection, safe food to eat, scientific research, regulation of criminal organization Big Banks, preventing security fraud, helping more Americans go to college, hurricane forecasts and benefits for our veterans, to name but a few. I understand that eliminating all these things are of vital importance to Cracked Teapot Party Republicans. So serious that they will shut down the government rather than give up on their cause.
However, I suggest we raise the ante a bit. After all $60 BILLION, $70 BILLION even $100 BILLION of spending cuts is not going to solve the problem. The trouble is that those cuts alone will do nothing to eliminate the budget deficit. Indeed, I have it on serious authority that Rep. Ryan's plan, if enacted will actually increase the deficit..
President Obama warned us the day of reckoning was coming
"[W]e've got to close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality," Obama said. "[I]f the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives, what happens is you guys then don't have a lot of room to negotiate with me."
Can you hear him now?
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