On Grand Bargains…

The real Republican aim in all this budget posturing is to get Democrats to take as much responsibility for unpopular Republican policies:

Alex Pareene at Salon has written a great piece about the revival of the Grand Bargain in his inimitable style that’s well-worth reading. I just want to pull out on little piece that I don’t think many people really understand:

Here’s a fun secret: Tax reform (in this case referring to eliminating or scaling back “tax expenditures”) is technically a conservative policy priority, even if elected Republicans refuse to ever support it for real. This is a compromise in which conservative policy is being offered in exchange for conservative support for a conservative policy. The sequester and Obama’s Bargain quest mean that Republicans can choose between allowing a Democrat to “take credit” for cutting the two most popular programs in the country or they can just live with the already-passed government spending cut that they are also able to blame on the president.

Period. Sequester is the new normal.

What didn’t we deregulate in the 90’s?

What didn’t we deregulate in the 90’s?.

More 0f Breitbart’s lifework

More 0f Breitbart’s lifework.

New World Water: Woodlands, PA

New World Water: Woodlands, PA.

lower funding, increase tuition.

lower funding, increase tuition..

Breitbart’s legacy

Breitbart’s legacy.

“What is it good for?”

“What is it good for?”.

One way to look at Yahoo! ban from working from home

Mark Sanford is the definition of a jerk.

Buffet to Shareholders: “people will seek their news – what’s important to them – from whatever sources provide the best combination of immediacy, ease of access, reliability, comprehensiveness and low cost”

Buffet to Shareholders: people will seek their news – what’s important to them – from whatever sources provide the best combination of immediacy, ease of access, reliability, comprehensiveness and low cost.

Charles Pierce: “Simply put, the job creators are now not creating jobs.”

Charles Pierce for Esquire: Simply put, the job creators are now not creating jobs. They have no intention of creating jobs now or in the future. They don’t have to create jobs and there’s nobody out there to make them do it. They simply will reduce the number of jobs they have now and grind the remaining employees, most of whom have no recourse any more, either to the government or to organized labor. The job creators thereupon will get rich not creating jobs, and they will continue to get rich not creating jobs, because creating jobs costs them money. Any politician who says anything else is lying to you..

Wrong way to party

Wrong Way to Party.

Remember when: “OMG Obama is to the right of Laura Bush!”

RRemember when: “OMG Obama is to the right of Laura Bush!”
Yea. well…it’s who actually pushes for and implements the changes that are liberal not who talks about it being awesome when it doesn’t matter. Dick Cheney and Laura Bush never did a damn for marriage equality while they were in Washington and the same goes for a bunch of other Republicans who make moderately liberal sounding noises sometimes and yet did nothing moderately liberal when they held power.