The Sideboob Gazette has the story, which confirms that the Democrats just want more and more blank checks to spend more and more money until we are, finally, ruined.
Senior Democratic officials on Capitol Hill and in the White House say that the media and Republicans are mistaken to assume that the stimulus measures were included as mere bargaining chips. In fact, the Democrats say, they’re important building blocks for President Barack Obama’s second term in office.
That’s because the “fiscal cliff” deal may be Obama’s last, best chance to win spending or tax-code concessions from Republicans.
And…
A top Senate Democratic aide — speaking about the talks, like many others, only on condition of anonymity — was blunter in his assessment. “The idea of extending UI [unemployment insurance] is not a trade-away chip. That’s essential. The idea of replacing payroll with something is something they feel very strongly about,” he said. Another top Senate aide said that the stimulus is “very real” and that it has consistently been a part of every proposal Democrats have made. A top GOP aide said he wasn’t sure how serious the White House is, but the stimulus has “been on every piece of paper they’ve sent us.”
Getting these components into law will require deft backroom negotiations. A GOP aide involved in the talks said that insistence on the stimulus measures would be “just more evidence they are slow-walking us off the cliff.”
The Democrats are insisting on including two things that are poison to the economy: Tax hikes on job creators, and more borrowed spending that we will have to pay back eventually. They’re creating a government bubble. Nothing short of absolute ruin seems to get their attention, and that may not even be enough.
It’s time for Republicans to take the offensive. Bring the President’s tax bill up for a vote. Announce it advance that they won’t vote for it but will not stand in the way of its passage. They should say they don’t care because it is a tax that will fall disproportionately on Democrats and deep blue states. Then they should go home and go over the cliff. Want to bet that the Pelosi and Reid kill the bill. This is all posturing by Democrats to let all the tax rates revert to 2001 levels and blame the Republicans. The real stupid Republicans are those who think they can fight and win the tax battle in the hostile media environment. They are just falling into Obama’s trap.
New slogan: ” vote for the tax on Democrats, it’s only fair.”
Well, we did just have an election. There’s a whole new crop of cronies to pay off.
– first stimulus got the dead economy to where it is today.