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Don't worry, Barth. Our

Red Planet — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:46:59 +0000

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Don't worry, Barth. Our fearless President has personally taken over the talks. He'll give the Corporations what they want, and a deal will be done.

I don't know which is worse -

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:16:29 +0000

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I don't know which is worse - the fact that someone could make such an irresponsible statement or the looming possibility that any segment of the American public would support it

Grover, Grover Norquist, King

Richard Day — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:06:00 +0000

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Grover, Grover Norquist, King of the Wild Tax Fears!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRvEnu7XmfQ

No doubt newspaper editorial

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:15:22 +0000

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No doubt newspaper editorial pages all over the country, Republican, Independent and Democratic alike, are lacerating the GOP for the sheer display of hypocrisy on display in Cantor's actions.

After all, it's not as though anything important is on the line, such as the full faith and credit of the US government, the viability of the dollar as a currency of exchange on world markets, or anything really important like that.

And, with all of that on the line, the GOP's top priority in these negotiations, having spent months since the November election preaching about the overriding importance of shrinking the massive federal deficit and debt is, you guessed it--tax cuts for those best off.

Imagine the chorus of denunciations, including from the far more honest and self-critical (to a fault?) Democratic opinion sources, if the Democrats had pulled something remotely as irresponsible, childish, hypocritical. You could make a case that what the Republicans are doing would fit a lay understanding, if not a legal one, of threatening treason.

For those in this country able to grasp the enormity of the act we have just seen, Cantor's really is a stunning banner statement of what this ludicrous bunch of jokers called the GOP has become in our day.

If only the Democrats were as

brewmn — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:30:59 +0000

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If only the Democrats were as willing to further ruin the economy in order to win an election.

It's not time to raise taxes

NCD — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:26:01 +0000

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It's not time to raise taxes when the economy isn't doing well, and when the economy is doing well, it is time to cut taxes, especially on the rich.

Who would have guessed it.

Dan Kervick — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:44:59 +0000

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Who would have guessed it. The Republicans are actually trying to win their war outright against the federal government budget, and not just maneuver into a better negotiating position.

Even the President, Vice

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:22:54 +0000

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Even the President, Vice President and the Treasury Secretary, all believers that sonner or later common sense would reign, may now recognize what they are dealing with is insanity.

The sheer idiocy of Cantor's position is breathtaking. What he is saying in effect is: the the financial health of the US and the world are so critical that the only way we could possibly agree to do this would be to promise to continue to gut the federal government's revenue base.

Or, he's setting up Boehner

Michael Maiello — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:34:56 +0000

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Or, he's setting up Boehner to take the blame for any compromise. They have internal politics too, you know.

Bluff

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:21:12 +0000

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Bluff