If I hear a republican talk about "compromise" again, I'm going to scream

[Thav]

Republicans don't want "compromise." They want everyone to do what they want. That was proven the past two years, and most notably in the last year when all the Republicans said was "No." And not a civil "No," it was a 3 year old screaming tantrum, eyes shut, fingers in the ears yelling "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" "No". Now they've gotten control of the House, and while hiding the erections in their pants they're talking about "compromise."

Republicans have a different meaning of that word. They're saying "compromise" when they mean "capitulate." Their view of negotiation is laying out their demands, and pointing a rifle at the heads of the opposition.

Republicans suddenly want a "balanced budget" and "fiscal responsibility." They had that back in 2000, even had a budget surplus. Then the robber barons in power saw a way to bilk the American people and plunged that in to the largest deficit ever seen. But that was Obama's fault, no Republican had a hand in that. George W Bush? Never heard of him.

The Republicans want the Democrats to capitulate to the Republicans on their ideas of "fiscal responsibility." I heard a Republican say, "Today's deficit spending is tomorrow's tax hike." If they truly believed that, the budgets of the Bush era would have looked much different. Oh but they live in a different world, where tax cuts and increases in spending "don't matter." They're right, they don't matter. Because you can use the deficits and potential tax hikes as a weapon in an election to gain power, and then say "oh, we're not going to do anything about that because it doesn't matter." The Republican ideal of "fiscal responsibility" is enriching the rich on the backs of everyone else, while selling the country to China.

The Republicans are nothing but a party of nepotists and hedonists who are looting this country and passing the money to their rich and powerful friends, while telling the rest of us it's what we want, it's good for us, and we asked for it.

The Republicans are saying that the government hasn't been listening to the people. The Republicans are telling everyone what to say. Now the Republicans are telling the Democrats to "compromise."

I think the Democrats should "compromise" about as well as the Republicans did the past two years - that is not at all.

Stick by your ideals, Democrats.

[HopeHoops]

1. Republican deficits DON'T matter - the really don't. But there's a simple reason for this.

The people who vote for them are TOO FUCKING STUPID TO UNDERSTAND!

[bif]

2. We're going to stat hearing "trickle down" again.

Even though it didn't work when Reagan introduced it. Let's concentrate the wealth with the top 2% in this country. The dumshits in the middle and the bottom who don't make much money think they'll get theirs. Ha! It'll never happen. The poor will always be poor. And the rich will continue to find new ways to screw them.

[Thav]

3. It's because

The rich truly believe that having money makes them wise and ennobles them. They also believe the poor are poor because they have done wrong, and do not have the skill or intelligence to manage money. They do not need more money because they will misspend it. They do not need help to better their lives because they can't handle it. The poor are poor because they should be. Many of the rich believe they are doing us all a service by having all the money.

There are rich who don't believe this as well. There are those who do good works with what they have. However, those people aren't as loud as those who feel they are the rightful oligarchs of this country and those who aren't in the "ruling class" need to tithe them and be happy with the scraps they're given.