Repugs are screwed. They can't raise taxes, they can't call off Iraq

[TheCowsCameHome]

Gasoline is still thru the roof, they have to cough up $200 billion for Katrina.

They are painting themselves in to a corner................

[BlueJac]

1. No....we are screwed!

[MintOreoCookie]

4. Yup, we are screwed. How are we going to pay for all this $hit?

What the repubs like to do is bankrupt the government so that when a democrat comes into office, they have to raise taxes.

[Sparkly]

7. Question is, "How are our great-grandchildren going to pay for all this

$hit?"

Republicans will just use it as more reason to starve social programs, including education and healthcare.

[MintOreoCookie]

11. But what if I don't have any children ever?

;)

That is exactly what Bush wants to do--starve the government so that they have to cut the benefits they don't like.

[MN ChimpH8R]

16. I'm sure that Hu Jintao will be happy to continue buying

bonds and wait for the right moment to call in his chits.

[GayCanuck]

8. God

I feel for all of you. I feel so safe up here.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Exactly. Go nuts with the credit card and leave the tab for others

Rotten, pathetic bunch of bastards.

[bluedawg12]

2. True, and they painted me and you right in there

how they screwed things this badly is apocalyptic.

[bluestateguy]

3. and I thought Reagan-Bush Sr. left a mess

I don't know how a Democratic president is going to clean up this mess in 2009.

It may be necessary for the next Democratic president to assume emergency powers for the duration of the crisis and permanently dissolve the Congress.

[Inland]

5. Taking the US down with them. nt

[welshTerrier2]

6. are the Democrats "calling off Iraq" ???

the Democratic Party has refused to call for an end to the occupation ... they are a disgrace as an opposition party ...

do you really believe they deserve any credit for their useless, go-along position on Iraq ?????

[FormerDittoHead]

10. They WANT to spend gov't out of existence - Sure they can raise taxes...

They WANT to spend a lot... NOW. "Starving the beast" MEANS diverting government spending away from services that most people can benefit from. (the war is perfect). Ultimately, like Mexico in the 1980's, the majority of tax dollars will go for servicing the debt. The public will conclude that the government can't do anything as well as the private sector and openly support the redefinition of the government to nothing more than protecting property rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
http://www.wordspy.com/words/starvethebeast.asp

"you must make voters hate the government. There's a danger that working-class families might see government as their friend: because their incomes are low, they don't pay much in taxes, while they benefit from public spending. So in starving the beast, you must take care not to cut taxes on these "lucky duckies." (Yes, that's what The Wall Street Journal called them in a famous editorial.) In fact, if possible, you must raise taxes on working-class Americans in order, as The Journal said, to get their "blood boiling with tax rage."

As for raising taxes, they're raising taxes every year on the working upper class through adjustments in the Alternative Minimum Tax.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4660655/

More over, they can always propose to make taxes more 'fair' and 'simple' in any number of ways that would screw over working people. (national sales tax for starters)

Moreover, by cutting back on services, states and localities are forced to pick up the difference doing what? You got it - raising taxes...

[zbdent]

12. Katrina, the $199,930,000,000 Levee mistake

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.

$70,000,000 might have saved us from this disaster.

But this misAdministration is Reactive, not proactive . . .

[bluedawg12]

13. Just like in Texas- he came in with a surplus and left a debt, now

he took over from Clinton with billions of surplus and he pissed it away.

Molly Ivens has written about his spending ways and days in texas- he left that place a mess.

[Skittles]

14. yup - the bastard did for America what he did for Texas

it's not like there weren't any warning signs

[yy4me]

15. And in 2006 and 2008, off they go

and leave the rest of us and all to follow with an unsustainable debt. That is, if we last that long. They can go away with fat pockets and the rest of us will be taxed to death or have to sacrifice beyond limit. I feel this is the beginning of tough times for all of us. No matter how hard you worked, it doesn't matter any more. Sort of like "tough cookies, like it or eave it"!

[rniel]

18. In the future we need to be in attack mode

What a republican may win the presidency. "Holy crap hold onto your pocketbooks that deficit is going to go flying way out of control."

They attack liberals saying they want to raise taxes. Let's point out the obvious one that they want to raise deficits.

Tax and spend liberal

vs.

Charge It! Republicans

[rniel]

17. it would be great if

we weren't along for the ride with them.