Interesting. Now please email some brain bleach.
Any final predictions?
So, what next for the Tea Party?
Well, according to the Contract From America, it goes like this:
So now that the Constitution has been protected, presumably the next step is defeating the American Clean Energy & Security Act in the Senate (or making sure the final version doesn’t pass the House).
I’m pretty sure “Protect the Constitution” means removing the Kenyan usurper from office, but I could be wrong.
Point 2 is probably a done deal.
3-8 are no-gos (and aren’t 5, 6, and 9 the same thing?). Maybe 4 is possible, depending on how compromisey everyone feels, and what the deficit commission recommends.
10 will be a mixed bag. I still think it’s likely the Dems pass a permanent extension on everything but the top-end bracket, but it’s possible they cave and pass a 1-year extension on that.
by initiating needless and expensive investigative proceedings of the president.
i.e., make sure our corporate overlords continue to profit obscenely while the liberal seaboards (and, incidentally, some of our strongest supporting regions) submerge.
like the one we had before our last Republican president blew it all up.
i.e., make sure the people who have the most pay the least.
by making sure we’re not helping out any lazy black people or fags.
like we did before (NOT!).
which doesn’t exist and isn’t created by the HRC bill.
“All” meaning oil.
except, apparently, that earmarked by Republicans.
which aren’t actually tax hikes but a return to the previous tax rates caused by a sunset clause that WE put in the tax cut bill 7 years ago but why would we start telling the truth NOW?
No, that was “take back America”. You appear to have last year’s edition of the Tea Party Dictionary.
You only have to look at one thing to see if the new congress is serious: Whether they take on entitlement spending. Specifically, whether they’re willing to make structural changes to Medicare.
One thing you have to give credit to the Obama administration for, is that they realized that health care spending is a ticking time bomb and tried to do something about it. Unfortunately, their ideology led them down the wrong path, and Obama made the mistake of trusting the Congress to write the health care bill unsupervised, but in fact they were right that health care is a huge problem that is going to get exponentially worse in the coming two decades.
The Republicans can’t just repeal Obamacare and go back to business as usual. If they manage to push through a repeal or significant change, it will be up to them to propose a real alternative that really does ‘bend the cost curve’.
Serious about fixing the nation’s problems, or serious about retaining the voters they gained in this election? Those are not the same thing, and may even be contradictory aims.
And which would, presumably according to the language used, include Medicare.
Tricare and the Veterans’ Administration, too.