Yes, Virginia, the Affordable Care Act is already paid for.
The GOP race to reward the wealthy.
There are two very different tax-policy conversations playing out in the Republican Party right now. In Washington, House Republicans are arguing with each other over how small of a temporary tax cut to give the middle class. Out on the primary trail, the Republican presidential candidates are arguing over how huge of a permanent tax cut to give the wealthy.
“Yes, Virginia, the Affordable Care Act is already paid for.”
Funny – you could say the same thing about our Congress!
Now, if only someone besides Krugman would point this out, maybe the Little Chickensh*ts on the right might stop running around shrieking that the sky is falling because the deficit’s rising. Or something…
But I forget how resourceful these ignorant lunatics are – like their complaint that the Darkie Muslim Overlord in the inappropriately named White House now has TOO MANY Christmas trees.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/12/12/37-trees/
There’s no satisfying some people.
Unless Obama receives a 2nd Amendment solution as a “present” for Christmas. It’ll all be in the spirit of giving, of course.
THEN, maybe they’ll be satisfied.
Actually, I doubt they’ll be ever be happy as long as one Liberal is still alive. And then, when that person’s gone, they can turn on those insufficiently Conservative among themselves. Kind of like a shark feeding frenzy, only without the charm and intelligence.
But I suspect that long before then, those of us rational people who didn’t die like our doctors, might decide to hasten our own ends with a few V*alium and vodka milkshakes before going to sleep for the last time, rather than face these rabid, drooling, and armed baboons.
I’ll end this comment on that positive note. 🙂
Thanks for the link, ‘How Doctors Die”. Some of us will know in advance that we are facing the medical adversary who will kill us. Not might. Will. And that opens up a range of choices. Many people choose poorly and die hard. The advice of this doctor should be considered early so if you have to make those choices, you make the right ones.
When my mother was terminal with cancer, she devoted herself to writing a children’s book for her grandchildren about a magical tree house where the children could converse with animals. In it she passed on lessons about values. When she finished, ‘Scurry, Scamper and The Treehouse’, I knew the end was near. But she died well, the book was the best therapy for quality of life she could have found. Dying is an art few perform well, but you don’t get to practice. I have seen it done well, and I don’t plan on dying badly, even if I can’t match the grace of my mom.
Also too: For more positive news, go read Paul Krugman, if you haven’t already – Krugman is breaking Godwin’s Law:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/opinion/krugman-depression-and-democracy.html?_r=2
You know what we may be getting for Christmas?
Fascism!
Settle down kids!
I said “may be…”
And it just might not be this year.
At least not here.
But there’s always the hope that Santa will leave us the gift of Fascism soon after next years election. YAY!!!
More proof Republicans don’t give a fig about deficits; their only goal is to keep the misery index so high their “island of lost toy” misfit candidates stand a snowball’s chance in.. well, you know where.