Just About Done

I'm just about done with the GOP.

I can hear Texas Fred now: "tol'ya so." Yeah yeah. I'm still hopeful but engaging some different gears.

I'm not far from trotting down to my county service center in Auburn and officially registering as an official Independent.

To those who read me: it still amazes that I have any number of readers because I can be, in terms of my posts, all over the radar screen, day-by-day. I've noticed that comments are significantly down.

That said, the question is: how many of you, my readers, were just terrifically pleased with the budget deal agreed upon over the weekend?

There were $38.5 billion dollars in cuts.

The president will then speak about coming tax hikes this coming Wednesday, the 13th. Oddly enough, that's the birthday of Thomas Jefferson -- in 1743.

Just one state -- my state -- Fornicalia has a budget shortfall of $26 billion. The state is considering budget cuts of $18 billion, just to begin with. $18 billion dollars' worth of cuts from just one state -- ? As contrasted to the ENTIRE federal budget cuts of $38 billion?

The US government spends $38 billion on toilet paper for its bathrooms every year. In just the past 1.5 years, the federal government has added 156,000 jobs. In this economy? How can that be?

That's akin to being $50,000 in personal/household debt and patting yourself on the back because you've decided not to buy a carton of ice cream the next month. What a savings! What a sacrifice!

I called Hugh Hewitt on Monday. I asked: just how long will you support the GOP? He disappointed me: he'll keep on keeping on though he spends a good portion of his showtime and prep excoriating the Republicans and Stating The Obvious: he's unhappy with the budget deal. Really, Hugh? From the Department of Redundancy Dept.? You lay out the argument, sir, but you won't, you refuse to take the final step?

Let's continue to state the obvious here:

- Bernanke insists on printing more money
- He merely delays the crash
- By delaying the crash, it's only going to get WORSE
- Geometrically

When will we, as I asked Hugh, begin to get truly serious about the opposition to spending? When the deficit can be measured not just in trillions (10¹²), but in quadrillions? Quintillions? Sextillions? Septenvigintillions (which is 10⁸⁴)?

We have a debt crisis. We either handle it ourselves or other people and entities will DO IT FOR US.

Paul Ryan made the best offering to date. He was summarily rejected out of hand.

The GOP continues to set itself up for a continuous series of sucker punches. The nation spoke in November. And still, despite that, the GOP continues to promulgate squishiness.

But here's the rub: the Republicans bleat: "Don't punish us. Punish the Demorats."

Really??

But still, they -- at the end of the day -- meet in dark, upholstered DC bars and backslap their own and their "colleagues" across the aisle.

I'll make it simple: because they have theirs. And everyone else can go straight to Hell. It's as fundamental as that. DC pols don't suffer the pain that you, the American Taxpayer, do.

And, in general, Boehner crows about his accomplishments whilst -- simultaneously -- Steny Hoyer says the GOP shouldn't be responsible for shutting down the federal government.

These two flaccid pols have, in fact accomplished nothing. The federal government never did shut down. It didn't shut down now and it hasn't shut down in the past. Not truly.

In retrospect, there is no "strategy" whatsoever. No one knows. No one has an inkling. Because it simply doesn't exist.

- Obama wants higher taxes
- His deficit is officially out of control
- The budget consists of lies, smoke, mirrors, bullshit
- Dems want to tax the internet

John McCain may have made his first cogent observation in many months:



The various TEA Party patriots are about to save this nation. Despite being held in contempt by the Demorats, Leftists, Socialists, and even many in the Republican Party.

Despite, as I write, this nation working, clearly, against them.

But that comes as no great shock, truly, does it, my dearest readers?

Does it?

BZ

P.S.
Are there truly Senators and Representatives possessed of actual gonads and spines?