SNOOKERED AGAIN


President Obama continues to amaze me. As everyone around him is moaning and groaning about the latest deal with the Republicans, the devils in the details are beginning to emerge. Once again, he has given up nothing and gotten something in return. As in the deal to extend unemployment benefits caught the Republicans off guard and the President got what he wanted. This time around, his scam of the Tea Party is dazzling in its simplicity and points to the fact that Tea Baggers know nothing about the workings of government and business.

This time around, with all the hoopla and cavorting about by the Tea Baggers & Republicans (they were so busy preening for the press that they didn't even notice President Obama picking them clean), The President really let them have it. And for all the braying on the left, it is telling that Rush Limbaugh is saying the Republicans got fleeced. Obama took those idiot Tea Baggers to school & he ain't done yet.

What did the President give up? Not a thing. Sure, he said everything was on the table but only in contrast to the Republicans', "Everything's off the table, but tax cuts." Are there any cuts to Medicare? Any cuts to Social Security? Medicaid? No. In fact, they are off the table in any future discussion on the deficit. They have been sequestered and won't be touched. So, he gave up nothing. What did he get? A guarantee that this won't happen again before the election.

He also, got it so that if the Republicans continue the Bush tax cuts that that will be considered spending & they'll have to off-set that spending with cuts that can not include the Big Three. Let's watch the Republicans cut Big Pharma, the Pentagon, Homeland Security, etc. Yeah, right. Wall Street is already crawling up their asses because of the debit ceiling debacle.
So, the Republicans choice will be to fuck themselves or fuck their natural allies in the defense industry, Big Pharma, security corporations, not to mention just about every other corporation in the country.

Amazing. Obama turned Republicans against their natural allies because that's the only place cuts are allowed. So, Republicans will have to either agree to revenue enhancement or fuck themselves by demanding cuts. Boehner has already been told that Wall Street will bury the Republican party if they don't cut this stupid shit out. But how does he get 87 Tea Baggers who know absolutely nothing about government, history or service in line to act like rational politicians, which some Republicans are capable of. (AH, remember the days of Evert Dirkson, Charles Percy, liberal Republicans in the party of Lincoln?)

So, Boehner is impotent. The Republicans have been out foxed by the Tea Baggers and the party is in disarray. It's obvious that Mitch McConnell is going to be hard pressed to do his job, "making sure President Obama is a one term president." Actually, his job is serving the people of Kentucky and the people of the United States. His own stated job description is awfully close to sedition, if you ask me. At any rate, by the time the election rolls around Mitch, Boehner, et al will be licking so many self-inflicted wounds, they won't have time to inflict any elsewhere.