Trump: In words of The Great Cheney, who I deeply admire, Deficit doesn’t matter if a Republican is POTUS. We all know that, so does the media and all Amerikans.
They want to continue to lower already low taxes on the wealthy and corporations, while claiming to wanting to balance the budget and increase military spending. If this can even be done, it would have to be on the backs of the poor and middle classes.
No wonder they’re into a revisionist Jesus, as Eric Erickson tried yesterday.
I saw that Erickson quote. Wow.
Good thing I’m not a Christian, or I might be in trouble for wishing that he had actually died when he had serious stress-related health problems recently.
Yeah, it sure does.
I have trouble reconciling “The health measure promises an enormous $880 billion cut from Medicaid” with “They’ve taken (Medicaid) off the table” to generate savings toward a balanced budget. Only in GOPer land can a conservative economist and former Congressional Budget Office director say that making major cuts to government spending takes away your ability to make major cuts to government spending. It’s now up to policy wonk and budgetary expert Speaker Ryan to explain the role of magic asterisks and dynamic scoring in the MAGA Balanced Budget Act.
Trump has given the GOP license to shift from breast-beating self-rightous obstruction to representative leadership and governance. Every bill is still a statement, nothing more.
They can’t do it. This is from the FT’s Edward Luce about the doomed and silly Trump budget:
Ryan is no better.
Not to mention that Trump’s dooms day Mexican wall that started at 20 million dollars went to 40 million dollars and is now going to cost maybe up to 100 million dollars and climbing due to court cost, buying land and cost run ups which always happen in any contract. The price that contractors bid is never the price.
We found out from the Bush to Obama transition that the GOP doesnt care about deficits. What they care about is controlling where public money goes. Thats all.
I wonder how much of that goes to building ships and planes we don’t need and how much goes to the vets and the soliders who still serve the privates corporals sergeants etc etc …bet therwes a huuuuugggeee gap between those two priorities
Make that Je$u$…whose Golden rule is “He who has the most Gold wins… and the Golden shower is just my way of telling Pissed-upons they deserve to be poor”…AaaaaaaaaaMen!
I’m not sure “tough spot” describes repeal. Ryan wants massive debt to bankrupt our ability to tax top wealth.
Tough spot is Ryan’s absence of Reaganesque charm.
They’re trying to drown it in the bathtub, folks.
In other words, the bill isn’t mean enough. It only causes suffering and a few deaths, apparently not enough to fulfill their goals.
Is this the quote?
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/842835996253274112
-edit- great replies in that thread!
I can’t do the math, but I wonder about the numbers for leaving Obamacare in place and allowing people 55 and over to participate in Medicare. The insurance pool would include younger, healthier people and might lower Medicare costs.
This is an AP story, so it’s pretty much bullsh*t from the start, since it has two implicit premises:
- Balancing the budget is ever and always a good thing
- Raising taxes to balance the budget is ever and always wrong.
Once you recognize those premises the story makes sense within its own small, twisted world. So, for example, cutting $800 billion from medicaid does mean there’s not a lot more medicaid-cutting that can be done to reduce the deficit. The fact that the same bill gives roughly $800 billion to rich people in tax breaks has no relevance to cutting the deficity, because shut up.
“Current Plan To Repeal Obamacare Puts Deficit Hawks In Tough Spot”
This is a common mistake, usually made by those unschooled in this particular form of bird watching. What appears to be a deficit hawk during Democratic administrations reveals itself to be a deficit dove during Republican administrations. The amazing thing about these “hawkdoves” is that while acting like a dove they sound like a hawk, thus fooling the uninitiated.