What Kind of Party Is This?

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/3/20/11843/1010

What Kind of Party Is This?

by BooMan
Tue Mar 20th, 2012 at 11:08:43 AM EST


There is so much to complain about in Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan that I hardly know where to begin, but I am going to start with the fact that we have a Democratic president. What makes Paul Ryan think that he can get a Democrat to destroy Medicare and Medicaid, eliminate all taxes on foreign profits, lower the top marginal income tax rate to 25%, eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax, raise defense spending, decimate spending on research and development, and social spending, and add hundreds of billions to the deficit? And he wants to do it by reneging on the deal the Republicans made with the administration during the debt ceiling fiasco, while ignoring the sequestration that resulted from the failure of the Supercommittee to strike a deal.

This isn't a budget for a divided government. It's an ideological budget that bears no relationship to reality. The media should respond with indignation and derision. It's bad enough that the numbers don't add up. Even if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire and there is no new Medicare doctor reimbursement fix, the CBO estimates that Ryan's budget will add $240 billion to the debt over the next decade. Meanwhile, it will provide a tax cut of at least $150,000 per year to our wealthiest families. That's over a million dollar giveaway over the next decade, and then you can start compounding the interest.

It's bad enough that this budget would be a disaster for the vast majority of Americans. But it bothers me more that the Republicans continue to act like they have some mandate to force their ideology on a Democratic Senate and administration. They control the House. That's it. They have a responsibility to help the president govern. And all they do is lie and obstruct and give us ridiculous plans that no Democrat could ever support.

We need a national conversation on what should be expected from a minority party in a divided government, because what we're getting from the GOP is just obnoxious gridlock and a bad credit rating. And can they ever keep their word? What kind of party makes a deal and then reneges on the deal at the first opportunity?

[The Blue Flower]

1. A party in full self-destruct mode

They're going for broke because they know the party's over.

[great white snark]

2. The pitiful party.

Ryan knows this is just fodder for the base.

[benddem]

3. yes but

the baggers don't think it goes far enough. See what we are dealing with?

[provis99]

4. since Obama supports most of the Ryan plan points,

what on earth is this "booman" talking about?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. What are you talking about?

Obama didn't support the last Ryan budget plan (and denounced it right in his face) and he sure as hell ain't going to be supporting THIS one either.

[provis99]

6. there were postings all over DU yesterday about

Obama's support for most of the Ryan budget points.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/how-obama-tried-to-sell-out-liberalism-in-2011.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. He doesn't support Medicare "profitization" (vouchers)

Also, being willing to accept something does not necessarily mean being supportive of something. Last summer, he was fighting to get the debt ceiling raised against the Republican's SEVERE intransigence. He was apparently willing to go quite far for a deal and, while I don't agree with everything he was reportedly willing to put on the table, he still had his limits- and, more importantly, the deal never happened.

[meow2u3]

7. Answer: a political cult

The GOP has become a political cult with OxyMoron and Grover Norquist as their co-leaders.

[grantcart]

8. bat shit crazy

[Kablooie]

9. All we're going to get is 'serious' discussion of hid budget.

No one in the mainstream media will point out the blatant insanity that's being espoused.
They insist on giving insanity the same dignified discussion as serious proposals.

Only the comedians are allowed to expose the truth because no one will take them seriously.

Hmm. There's an ironical adage in there somewhere.