Silly Democrats, you're ALL to blame for your failures.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of developing "Stockholm syndrome," showing sympathy to their Republican captors by caving in on legislation to provide middle-class tax cuts paid for with tax increases on the super-rich, tying war funding to troop withdrawal timelines, and mandating renewable energy quotas. If Republicans want to filibuster a bill, Rangel said, Reid should keep the bill on the Senate floor and force the Republicans to talk it to death.
Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor to criticize what he called the speaker's "iron hand" style of governance.
Democrats in each chamber are now blaming their colleagues in the other for the mess in which they find themselves. The predicament caused the majority party yesterday surrender to President Bush on domestic spending levels, drop a cherished renewable-energy mandate and move toward leaving a raft of high-profile legislation, from addressing the mortgage crisis to providing middle-class tax relief, undone or incomplete.
Let's face it folks, Democrats aren't very popular right now for a lot of legitimate reasons.
First off, they promised the American public the moon and failed to deliver on a wide variety of issues such as spending, the war in Iraq, and more.
Yet, it's found out that Nancy Pelosi spent $16k on flowers during her first year in office.
They promise to cut the massive spending, yet, they throw together a spending bill that has an additional $22 billion in extra pork.
That's an additional $73 for every man, woman, and child in America. That's just the EXTRA spending they wanted to do.
How about we start getting some "bang for our buck"?
Democrats promised to end the war in Iraq, yet they've failed. Some point to the slim margin they hold as the reason they can't override a Presidential veto. I point to this:
Senate Republicans will seek to add as much as $70 billion in war funding to the bill, without strings on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq attached. Pelosi indicated she would vote against the final bill if such funds are included but made clear that Democrats are ready to make the concessions needed to avoid a veto.
They have become completely inept and spineless about their personal convictions.
And then there's taxes. Democrats want to tax the rich, while easing taxes on the poor. For some unknown reason, Democrats seem to be opposed to a flat tax rate across the board.
The House AMT bill would prevent 21 million middle-income American households from being hit with a tax increase that could average $2,000 per family from a levy designed in 1969 to target only the super-rich. The proposal would also increase the number of low-income families that could benefit from a refundable tax credit for children.
If Congress would pass a balanced budget amendment with the exceptions of publicly acknowledged emergencies, I have no problem with my taxes going up $2,000 IF the money is used to get us out of debt and back on track.
But I'm not talking about simply getting us in the black, I want us to have a surplus. The kind where WE can start buying up other countries debts and start having a flourishing economy again.
If they passed that, then that would give the government an additional $42 billion a year in revenue.
Doesn't sound like much, but if the budget is balanced, then that $42 billion can go right back into getting us out of debt.
How about we start the cuts in the budget with financial aid to countries that hate our guts? I'm not talking about a reduction in aid, I'm talking about a complete shutdown of funds.
Let them preach hate in the desert sun about how it's all America's fault and such rather than in mosques paid for with American dollars.
How about we stop coming to the aid of every country in trouble and make Russia and China do it? You'll see public opinion turn around with us and both of them in a heartbeat.
China and Russia will tell country X to go fuck themselves and then when America comes in (after we tell them to go to China and Russia first), then all of a sudden it's "They ignored us when we needed help, but America helped us out".
If we get a knife in the back from any of these countries in the future, we never help them again. I don't care if there's genocide going on in their country, they don't get one Marine or one Air Force Raptor's bit of time.
But Democrats don't see it that way. They want it to be "America helps everyone out and damn the cost!"
It's simply not that way. Democrats wanted the SCHIP program to include people who simply didn't need the program and that was going to cost $35 billion a year MORE then it does now. That means that that previous $2k per household was going to be paying for the health costs of another family.
Do you want to pay $175 bucks a month to pay for insurance for someone's baby who won't get off their ass to get a better job and provide for his children?
Do you want to pay $50 a month to go to a country that hates our guts and plans on killing you? You already are.
So when Democrats talk about failure, they aren't talking about goals that were missed just slightly, they are talking about catastrophic failure. Nothing got done, nothing has changed, and their promises were empty. That's why they've resorted to finger pointing. No one wants to say "I'm responsible" in the Democratic party.
Travis
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