Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Bowling in the New Year
It wasn’t even 8AM yesterday, before a single New Year’s Day bowl game had been played and the talking heads on Sports Central were already arguing about which college football team should be ranked number one in next year’s pre-season polls. No kidding.
And You Thought All That Taxmageddon/ Fiscal Cliff Hype Went On Too Long
Congress missed its chance to beat the Dreaded Fiscal Cliff Deadline Monday night, when no deal had been reached by the time the ball dropped in Times Square.- Republican Senate Minority Leader Bitch McConnell totally wussed out by agreeing with Obama’s Vice President Joke Biden to turn back the GOP’s two-decade-long refusal to raise tax rates and delivering a major win for Obama.
- Such a deal! Whistleblower Senior National Political Affairs Analyst Britt Humus says the bill has $620 billion in new tax hikes, and only $15 billion in spending cuts. Get out your calculators: That’s $41 in new taxes for every $1 in spending cuts. No wonder the Senate couldn’t pass it until 2 AM when “Rob “Fighting for Fixes” Portman and a lot of Republicans caved in big time. That bill passed 89-8. Bluegrass Senator Rand Paul voted against it.
The measure would raise taxes by about $600 billion over 10 years and only delay for two months all those across-the-board spending cuts otherwise set to begin slashing the budgets of the Pentagon and numerous domestic agencies. So the problem is, the Fiscal Cliff is still there, and Congress will be back at it again in March, and there’ll be another showdown all over again.- Actually, the so-called “fiscal cliff” deal that was designed to save money actually includes $330.3 billion in new spending over the next decade, according to the official estimate the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday afternoon.
In the House, the Tea Party Caucus says John Boehner has already grabbed his ankles, but if he can’t get a majority of the GOP to back the deal, it’ll be a really bad start to the New Year for the Speaker. Just wait to see how Obama blames Boehner and the Republicans during his State of the Dis-Union Address later this month.- The Blower’s waiting to see which Republicans support higher taxes as Disingenuous DemocRATS cross their fingers and promise not to increase deficit spending quite as fast. Everyone will congratulate each other and D-RATS will continue driving the country down the ditch as Obama Supporters in the Press go orgasmic over Obama’s leadership.
- Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo wonders how Bitch McConnell’s total wussification on New Year’s Day might affect his future, Kentucky’s senior senator faces re-election in 2014. Our Tea Party Patriots can hardly be amused.
- Maybe that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Ronald Reagan’s “Governments don’t reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.”
- Hurley the Historian says on this date in 1811 Senator Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, was the first senator to be censured by the Senate after he was accused of publicly revealing secret documents communicated by the president to the Senate. Today a senator can get himself harangued for just tapping his foot in a men’s room.
Finally, at yesterday’s meeting of the Conservative Agenda, Political Insiders were asking Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane about the e-mail that’s been going around about Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occurring on the same day. It says “This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog.”
“It’s a funny enough joke,” Kane explained. “Except that Obama’s State of the Union Address is scheduled for January 29, and Groundhog Day is always on February 2.”
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Link of the Day
Obama’s State of the Union 2013
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