Politics As Usual

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by the Spartan
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The South will rise again!
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Yes. At the GOP Convention. When Zell Miller takes the podium.

I was thinking of Britney.



etfs and ap

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In any event, people don't want to cut government spending for things like transportation,

Are you serious? Fed. Cov't transportion costs are centered in a few states and supported by at most only a few more.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The SF posters use the term "ass-fucking" a little too freely if you ask me. It is really not something I'm familar with and so the image doesn't help me "see."

It's really Atticus more than the rest of us, and it's all a part of his effort to delegitimize prison rape. Just smile and nod politely, and soon he'll be buttonholing (no double entendre intended) the next guy.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Are you serious? Fed. Cov't transportion costs are centered in a few states and supported by at most only a few more.

How many congressmen get elected by running on a platform of cutting highway spending? Or by proclaiming that the federal government should get out of the interstate business and let those roads be the responsibility of state and local governments? That pork is some powerful shit.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You can't possibly be this naive. Have you been reading the papers these last four years? If spending cuts were politically viable, wouldn't we have seen them instead of deficits so the GOP never would have had to abandon its reputation for parsimony?

Bush is a lame-duck President in 2005 (with no heir-apparent, unless they dump Cheney*). He can take the risk because their are no consequences

Did you miss the part of Bartlett's column noting that "most people support still more spending for education, health, and other programs"?

And "most people" support tax cuts. That the general population has always and continues to support this obvious contradiction is lost on many.

Your party reads polls. Are you still living in hope that there's someone in the GOP who will grow a pair of balls and do something that endangers the GOP's congressional majority?

These fuckers from both parties are so gerrymandered in their districts that the only time there is a swing in either direction, it is because of retirement, not polls.

Your electoral votes all come from states where they vote for the candidate who loves Jesus more.

Nobody fucks with the Jesus.


* which I still think may happen. Rummy goes end of July.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Are you serious? Fed. Cov't transportion costs are centered in a few states and supported by at most only a few more.

Then why don't the fiscal conservatives currently in power stop the insanity?

If you want to see the current gov't in action, check out the ETI repeal bill. They took a simple bill that was to get rid of stuff the WTO has ruled illegal, and now it's got so much pork in it (esp. the House version) that it's fucking ridiculous. The whole theory based on "cutting revenues will lead to spending cuts" is fucked up. Tax cuts are like dessert.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm buying my daughter a pony with the tax cuts!

She'll have to sell it when it becomes a horse to help pay her share of the deficit, though. Make sure you warn her, lest she sneak off with your wife's pervie teacher.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Bush is a lame-duck President in 2005 (with no heir-apparent, unless they dump Cheney*). He can take the risk because their are no consequences

In SlaveLand, Bush is a strong leader who nevertheless hasn't proposed balancing the budget yet because he's afraid of the consequences, but who will be freed, finally, to follow his conscience after November.

And "most people" support tax cuts. That the general population has always and continues to support this obvious contradiction is lost on many.

Not the GOP leadership, though.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
In any event, people don't want to cut government spending for things like transportation, national parks, education, environmental protection...

Can we take a poll?

:td:

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
-- i.e., to get rid of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare --

Slash. Slash. Slash. Next?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by the Spartan
Slash. Slash. Slash. Next?

Good for you! Get that through Congress, and we can start talking about tax cuts. But remember, your man Bush just exponentially increased the cost of Medicare.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Bush is a lame-duck President in 2005 (with no heir-apparent, unless they dump Cheney*)

Wrongo bongo.

Jeb.

After his two terms, George P. Bush (one of the little brown ones) will be ready to take the mantel.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Can we take a poll?

:td:

No need. Running against Gore, did Bush boast that he was going to slash federal spending on these things? Um, not exactly. Turns out it's a crappy way to get re-elected.

[the Spartan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Good for you! Get that through Congress, and we can start talking about tax cuts. But remember, your man Bush just exponentially increased the cost of Medicare.

Yes and hopefully that faux sop to the addleminded elderly will pay off at the polls. The increased cost will just make the budget savings look that much bigger when he later slashes the whole program.

Allah akhbar!

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by the Spartan
Yes and hopefully that faux sop to the addleminded elderly will pay off at the polls. The increased cost will just make the budget savings look that much bigger when he later slashes the whole program.

Seeing as he's an incumbent and all, I really need to see a good-faith effort at cutting stuff before the election.