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| Think at your own risk. |
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| Who will buy this wonderful mourning? |
Though they're now openly dissing the White House's free-spending War on Unpopularity, with one exception -- New Hampshire's fiscal conservative dinosaur Sen. Judd Gregg and Michigan congressman Vernon Ehlers -- congressional Republicans, including the media-beloved situational maverick John McCain (whom I'm convinced Chris Matthews is going to get downon one knee and propose to one day) would much rather pay for George W. Bush's "anything it takes" Katrina revival with cuts to the admittedly bloated Medicare prescription drug benefit than consider touching the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. (About $40 billion worth of potential cuts out of $200-$300 billion in Katrina costs alone -- not counting whatever havoc Rita wreaks...) At least that's the talking point that made the media rounds yesterday, dutifully repeated by McCain and other assorted talkers.
The $700 billion scrips bill is a monstrosity (and one the old folks don't even like), and it should be cut back. But that's not all the GOP is looking to do. Tom Delay and Co. say that rather than deprive Donald Trump of his Mar-a-lago mad money or dig into that repulsive transportation bill, they'll be looking at cutting things like food stamps and Section 8 housing -- you know, the kind of crap poor people use... that and borrowing more money from the Chinese. You know, the forced abortion, non-existent justice system Chinese...
Gotta love GOP socioeconomic policy. It's like Dickens is right here in the room with you...
Tags: Politics, Tags: katrina, hurricane katrina, economy |
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