GOP: Selling America Down The River AGAIN In The Supercommittee

According to Eric Cantor, it's perfectly acceptable to assure the already-dire housing market completely tanks.

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sidestepping controversy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declined to take sides Monday on a proposal for higher taxes backed by fellow Republicans on Congress' supercommittee, yet expressed confidence the panel would agree on a deficit-reduction plan of at least $1.2 trillion by a Nov. 23 deadline.

So let me make this clear: our REPUBLICAN House Leader has REFUSED to "take sides" in a proposal for higher taxes -- "BACKED BY FELLOW REPUBLICANS" and considered by our Mr Obama's so-called Congressional "Supercommittee."

The only conclusion I can draw is this:

Republicans -- confident, easy and comfortable in having been installed now in DC -- have completely forgotten the reason for their being there and the strife that occurred this past November. They have forgotten their "promises." You note, of course, the quotation marks.

And this is how easily Conservatives are betrayed.

With: $300 billion of tax hikes to be achieved by limiting the mortgage deduction and by limiting charitable deductions, state and local income tax deductions.

No Republican of which I am aware, ran on this platform. This wasn't our "message" in November.

These ARE TAX INCREASES. No matter what you call it, these are tax hikes.

Hugh Hewitt writes:

What the GOP cannot do is fold and accept tax hikes, especially on the fragile housing market and the reeling not-for-profit sector. Limiting the mortgage interest deduction is the worst of many bad economic ideas bandied about by the Beltway wizards who first brought us Fannie and Freddie, and the canard that people don't give to charity because of the deduction marks anyone who utters it as simply ignorant of how the world of churches, universities, hospitals and the hundreds of thousands of crucial not-for-profits from homeless shelters to disease prevention and research groups all operate.

Politically, Obama says that without these agreements in the Supercommittee, he will gut the military even further. The threat. The cheese and the whip.

Politically, the Republicans should stand firm and say:

• First, we're not buying tax hikes, and
• Second, you want to gut the military, then it will be done in the bright light of day
• And its results will be on YOU
  

And it may cost you, Mr Obama.

Call the fucker's bluff.

You will literally kill the already-execrable housing market and guarantee that charities are abandoned.

• If you're a Demorat, you don't care because it means more money.
• If you're a Republican, you simply want to be loved and for everyone to just "get along."

To my readers: and THIS is why Republicans took back the House?

This is why the TEA Parties were created?

BZ