Can Head Start Kids Complain and Get Money Restored, Like Air Traffic Controllers Did?

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from Digby:


No, consistency does not matter

... to Republicans. It's simply foolish to hang your hats on the fact that they are hypocrites and will be revealed as such to the nation. They don't care, and neither does at least half the country:

Americans For Prosperity, a conservative group funded by the Koch brothers, is echoing the GOP narrative that sequestration cuts are largely President Obama’s fault. Back in March, AFP struck a different tone on sequestration, claiming it would help the economy.

“By no means is the sequester perfect, but we must begin acting now to rein in this wasteful prosperity killer,” AFP President Tim Phillips wrote in USA Today. “Making these modest reductions to government overspending is an important first step.”

In the weeks leading up to the sequester, AFP repeatedly urged Republicans to let it take effect, contradicting much of the economic field’s warnings against it.

Here they are today:



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Congress to End Air Traffic Furloughs
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Tommy Vietor ?@TVietor08 (former Obama speechwriter) 9h
Brilliant RT “@samsteinhp: Head Start kids should just start complaining about the long tarmac delays they're dealing with”

[CTyankee]

1. selfish.

It was the first word out of my mouth when I read about this.

Correction: OBSCENELY selfish.

[LisaLynne]

2. This is a painful truth we must all accept:

"It's simply foolish to hang your hats on the fact that they are hypocrites and will be revealed as such to the nation. They don't care, and neither does at least half the country"

We keep thinking, "Oh, they are being hypocrites and if only people would see that!" Well, people see that, they know it themselves, and they don't care. They feel no cognitive dissonance because you need to have integrity for that and they have none.

We have to find another way to attack it instead of waiting for them to ... I don't know, have some sort of epthany that they are hypocrites and change their ways. They already know. They don't care.

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3. this is it

. . . the sequester cuts can't be restored piecemeal, because there's just not enough political will or impetus to build many of the programs back up again to health. It's going to be a long slog. That's the idea behind going for some 'grand bargain' to bring government back online with the original constructs of these important social, health, and education programs.

That's the impetus behind the WH acceptance yesterday of the Senate leader's suggestion that they delay the cuts some more, into the future, to keep some sort of accountable balance to it all.

Right here, we can see how easily the pet projects of the corporate-compromised Congress will be restored; well ahead of anything remotely related to the needs of the vast majority of Americans. The ease in which this vote looks to be progressing should put a chill into anyone thinking they had a chance of defending some threatened agency or program that isn't defense or some other lofty, toobigtofail enterprise and restoring funding.

[LisaLynne]

4. You are exactly right.

And it is chilling. They know exactly what they are doing. And it's also frightening to see how so many Americans seem to think more of corporations than of other Americans. They don't want the corporations to suffer, but who cares about their neighbor down the street?

[kelliekat44]

5. They don't care about the children of poor and working families. No. nt

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6. lesson of Congress' FAA fix:

Mike O'Brien ?@mpoindc 4m

RT @mmurraypolitics The lesson of Congress' FAA fix: Congress will act, but only if it and its friends are hurt. What a sad commentary on DC