Republicans complain that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old plan, when those same Republicans spent the last year claiming that Obama had no plan. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
Republicans controlled Washington during the fiscally irresponsible era when President Clinton’s budget surpluses were transformed into the trillion-dollar deficit that President Bush bequeathed to President Obama. The deficit under Obama is now shrinking. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
The fiscal cliff was created in response to GOP threats to force the U.S. government to default on its obligations. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
Keynesian stimulus used to be uncontroversial in Washington; every 2008 presidential candidate had a stimulus plan, and Mitt Romney’s was the largest. But in early 2009, when Obama began pushing his $787 billion stimulus plan, the GOP began describing stimulus as an assault on free enterprise—even though House Republicans (including Paul Ryan) voted for a $715 billion stimulus alternative that was virtually indistinguishable from Obama’s socialist version. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
The current Republican position seems to be that the fiscal cliff’s instant austerity would destroy the economy, which is odd after four years of Republican clamoring for austerity, and that the cliff’s military spending cuts in particular would kill jobs, which is even odder after four years of Republican insistence that government spending can’t create jobs. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
Republicans don’t even seem to be arguing that more stimulus wouldn’t boost the economy; they’ve suggested that Obama needs to give up “goodies” like extending unemployment insurance (which benefits laid-off workers) and payroll tax cuts (which benefit everyone) to show that he’s negotiating in good faith. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
Republicans want Obama to propose bigger Medicare cuts, even though they spent the last campaign slamming Obama’s Medicare cuts and denying their interest in Medicare cuts and Allen West, hero of the Tea Party, vowed to protect Medicare. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
McConnell offering legislation to deal with the debt ceiling and then filibustering his own legislation when it came up for a vote. Bull Shit or Elephant Shit?
Politicians are famous for their bull shit. The 2012 campaign saw them moving towards “bat crap crazy” and after the election, the Republicans have reach a higher level that can only be termed elephant shit.
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