tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3190348233754698415..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-2445150467620095872013-01-30T10:27:07.099-05:002013-01-30T10:27:07.099-05:00Thanks aimai - I never looked at it like that.Thanks aimai - I never looked at it like that.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8282289398224785912013-01-30T09:52:04.975-05:002013-01-30T09:52:04.975-05:00Sure, I agree with this. But in a sense it doesn&#...Sure, I agree with this. But in a sense it doesn't matter because their voters aren't listening and what they do or do not do is not permanent here and they know it--and the Obama administration knows it too. None of these bills and laws and new regulations tie the hands of the next congress, or the next one after that. The Republicans can let the sequester cut the hell out of defense and then go right back to voting for enormous payouts to their favored military industrial clients in the very next session of congress. <br /><br />In fact letting the sequester go through while still trumpeting 1) that it indicates a lack of military love on Obama's part and 2) that it proves they are sincere about the debt/deficit are excellent rhetorical strategies.<br /><br />Cutting Defense to the bone and then selling their services to the highest defense contractor bidding makes a huge amount of sense for individual House movers and shakers--it only increases their value to lobbyists.<br /><br />So I would have expected to see something like this happen although I would equally have imagined that under pressure from their paymasters they would have tried to prevent it. Its a complicated system in which bad decisions for the country can always pay off for individual representatives in congress, if they know how to game the system.<br /><br />What they say in public bears only the most limited relationship to what their actual intentions and beliefs are--and their failures as negotiators can always be spun to their public advantage with a tiny bit of thought.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-47449553941895137532013-01-30T08:26:49.279-05:002013-01-30T08:26:49.279-05:00Yeah, again, you're right, Steve.
If Republic...Yeah, again, you're right, Steve.<br /><br />If Republicans are the party of national defense, then ask them to explain the Bush II Presidency, and their support for it?<br /><br />NOW, I mean, after the smoke has cleared, the bodies are buried, no WMD's were found, and we're withdrawing from Bush's Follies. And now that people aren't being 'threat-leveled' every single morning, right before the weather report.<br /><br />The entire Republican Party is now all about finding some way to blame the Democrats for something. ANY thing.<br />From immigration, to the economy, to military budget cuts, to SS and Medicare "Earned Benefits" cuts - that they themselves are waiting for the Democrats to propose. Hopefully, the Democrats will start cutting the military, and let the Republicans finally, FINALLY, have to blurt out what the want regarding SS and Medicare.<br /><br />And you know, every evening, right before they go to bed, that they're pray to Jesus that we have a terrible and costly terrorist attack here, or another economic collapse, or a couple of dozen Benghazi's a week.<br />"Something, Jusus. Give us something. ANY thing, to make Obama and the Democrats look bad, and discredit them!"<br /><br />Party over people.<br />PARTY UBER ALLES!!! Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com