"[The House New GOP] plan threatened spending on young & low-income but by excluding revenue & entitlements had small impact on overall deficits. Means wildly excessive for ends."
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President Biden appears to have handled the negotiations with aplomb, but there should have been no discussions in the first place; The Psychiatric Facilit…
"[The House New GOP] plan threatened spending on young & low-income but by excluding revenue & entitlements had small impact on overall deficits. Means wildly excessive for ends."
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President Biden appears to have handled the negotiations with aplomb, but there should have been no discussions in the first place; The Psychiatric Facility Escapee Caucus had no qualms about holding the financial standing of the US, and the economies of most of the rest of the world, hostage to engage in political theater, and in an attempt to overturn legislation that they don't like and that they lost in earlier House votes. There were no serious talks between the bomb throwers and saner heads.
Meanwhile, the MAGA Right in the House felt that everyday Americans needed to be punished for turning their collective backs on TFG, his sycophants, minions, toadies and turd polishers over the last three election cycles. They have done this through their attempts to gut the social safety networks and implement requirements that the Progressive Left consider draconian. (I should point out that, IMO, not all of the regs suggested are potentially harmful e.g. raising the work/age requirements from 49 to 54 over ten years - the requirement is already in existence, just the age changes incrementally.)
OTOH, insisting that the tax breaks for the wealthy put in place by the Tangerine Tyrant are sacrosanct so that the New GOP donor class is protected monetarily, to the detriment of the Middle Class and those below them on the income scale, is anathema to the "American Dream." (Unfortunately for them this also helps the Dem donor class.)
The House PseudoRepubs, PseudoCons and RINOs further proved their insincerity in the talks by insisting that the DOD budget increases. Of almost any department within the US government, the DOD's is the most bloated. The redundancy within the civilian bureaucracy is costing the government much more than these people produce, and cutting the budget for these agencies would save money. Also, consider ridding the military of its "civilian contractors," and take some of the savings to pay the lower ranks more (which has a possible effect of raising enlistments) while having them absorb the work performed by the contractors.
I'll have to wait and see what the final agreement looks like - even though I expect it to fail in the House to the MAGA and Progressive Left extremists who are upset that they didn't get everything they wanted.
It was still nice to see MyKevin returning to the adage that politics is the art of compromise, as opposed to the New GOP theory that politics is the art of compulsion. Either way, I expect to see a motion to vacate the chair entered by the end of next week at the latest for McCarthy's "weakness" in his talks with Mr Biden.
"[The House New GOP] plan threatened spending on young & low-income but by excluding revenue & entitlements had small impact on overall deficits. Means wildly excessive for ends."
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President Biden appears to have handled the negotiations with aplomb, but there should have been no discussions in the first place; The Psychiatric Facility Escapee Caucus had no qualms about holding the financial standing of the US, and the economies of most of the rest of the world, hostage to engage in political theater, and in an attempt to overturn legislation that they don't like and that they lost in earlier House votes. There were no serious talks between the bomb throwers and saner heads.
Meanwhile, the MAGA Right in the House felt that everyday Americans needed to be punished for turning their collective backs on TFG, his sycophants, minions, toadies and turd polishers over the last three election cycles. They have done this through their attempts to gut the social safety networks and implement requirements that the Progressive Left consider draconian. (I should point out that, IMO, not all of the regs suggested are potentially harmful e.g. raising the work/age requirements from 49 to 54 over ten years - the requirement is already in existence, just the age changes incrementally.)
OTOH, insisting that the tax breaks for the wealthy put in place by the Tangerine Tyrant are sacrosanct so that the New GOP donor class is protected monetarily, to the detriment of the Middle Class and those below them on the income scale, is anathema to the "American Dream." (Unfortunately for them this also helps the Dem donor class.)
The House PseudoRepubs, PseudoCons and RINOs further proved their insincerity in the talks by insisting that the DOD budget increases. Of almost any department within the US government, the DOD's is the most bloated. The redundancy within the civilian bureaucracy is costing the government much more than these people produce, and cutting the budget for these agencies would save money. Also, consider ridding the military of its "civilian contractors," and take some of the savings to pay the lower ranks more (which has a possible effect of raising enlistments) while having them absorb the work performed by the contractors.
I'll have to wait and see what the final agreement looks like - even though I expect it to fail in the House to the MAGA and Progressive Left extremists who are upset that they didn't get everything they wanted.
It was still nice to see MyKevin returning to the adage that politics is the art of compromise, as opposed to the New GOP theory that politics is the art of compulsion. Either way, I expect to see a motion to vacate the chair entered by the end of next week at the latest for McCarthy's "weakness" in his talks with Mr Biden.
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