Just more business as usual in Washington, and proof positive why I view the republican party as being just as slimy and out-of-touch as the leftist 20 percenter democrat party:
From the Congressional Budget Office comes the revelation Thursday that far from making $38 billion in immediate budget "cuts" (itself a mere drop in the bucket) – as touted this week by republican and democrat scum alike – the deal reached last weekend will merely cut a paltry $352 million from 2011 fiscal spending!
I'm trying to recall the last time I actually saw these two slimeball parties working together to perpetrate such an absolute fraud on the American people. Typically, they work their frauds in isolation. If this is what they have in mind for a new era of "compromise" and working together, then I say that Independents should kick every single one of these bums' asses to the curb come 2012, regardless of party.
As confirmed by the CBO, the only thing last weekend's "compromise" (more like conspiracy) did was to cut about $38 billion in spending authority. But even that's a complete sham: Of that $38 billion in reduced spending "authority," about $20 billion or a little more in spending will be cut over five years – not in 2011 – and (to add insult to injury) about $15-20 billion of that $38 billion figure was never expected to be spent in the first place!
The linked CBS News stories provide an excellent concrete example of this: Congress set aside $20 million to build a Capitol Visitor Center. That construction project is now finished, and apparently it only took about $5 million. So the new republican/democrat budget deal uses the $15 million difference (which would not have been spent anyway) and calls it a budget "cut"! Good grief, these two parties are sleazejackets.
Independents stuck these GOP goofs in power in November 2010 to reign in the democrat party's crazy far leftist spending and the $14.2 national debt that threatens to collapse our economic system in the near future. People like me voted for republican House and Senate candidates for the first time we could even remember. And this is how they act once they get there?!
They ran on a promise to cut $100 billion from 2011 fiscal spending. They ended up cutting well less than one percent of that amount (0.352 percent to be precise)! Yeah – these guys are real serious about getting our crippling debt under control!
But maybe we shouldn't so damn shocked. While I do believe Paul Ryan and his plan to cut the national debt are very serious, I just don't think too many other republicans really are. Take this goof, this cry baby, this party animal, spray-on tanned Speaker of the House, John "Party Time" Boehner: He turns my stomach -- a career politician and your prototypical DC "establishment" republican. What a slimeball.
Apart from knowing where the next party is, all this boob cares about is keeping his job into perpetuity and not ruffling the leftists' feathers too much for fear that he'll become one of their main targets. Not surprising that he's behind this $38 million fraud that the republicans and democrats tried to pass off as a serious budget deal.
And BTW, I love how hardly any of the right-wingers are even talking about this today apart from a little lip service here and there. Conveniently ignoring it in large part. It takes an Independent like me to even raise it, "standing alone" like Jackyl.
You spineless jellyfish, do-nothing right-wingers. Your ilk starts running this country into the ground through the eight years of W Bush destruction, and then you act as complicit conspirators with the leftists after that idiot's gone. You make me sick.
At the end of the day, it becomes tiresome how it always comes down to the same thing: We Independents will give those far leftist creeps the boot one election cycle, and then we'll damn sure have to kick some republican hide to the curb the very next election cycle.
Wish it didn't have to be that way every single time, but this shit never changes. Only problem: In the past when we've had this sort of business as usual in DC, we weren't teetering on the brink of economic collapse.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054026-503544.html?tag=breakingnews
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20053879-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
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