For The Record

I want to go on the official record here.

• Before debt-ceiling talks, the basic premise has been this: Republicans wanted to cut spending. Dems did not. Can kicked up street.
• Debt-ceiling deadline approached. People squawked. D.C. basically did nothing.
• Debt-ceiling deadline got deadly close. Shit hit fan. Republicans want to cut spending. Dems didn't, but now do (as long as taxes go up). Republicans said GTFO.
• President offered giant deficit cut (hugely aided by tax increases). Republicans said GTFO. President even offered to throw Medicaid & Social Security under the bus. Republicans still said GTFO.
• President accused Republicans of political pandering. Speakertweaker drew the fucking line.

President Barack Obama, hear me now. For the first time in as long as I can remember, someone in Washington, D.C. is listening to the people what elected them.

So, for the record, I do not want any tax increases. I don't care who you allege to levy the increases against. I believe - right or wrong, and for better or for worse - that any tax increases will be a destructive force on this already fragile economy, and I don't gods-be-damned want them. If House Republicans are doing any political pandering, then, for the first time, they are pandering to their own constituents, and they should be applauded for doing so. Whether or not you are getting what you want out of it.

And everyone within the scope of my nearest voting booth had damn-well better heed these words.



tweaker