Only fools, useful idiots, and socialist zealots can believe all of this. Those that do not and still promote it are power hungry fascists.

Obama, the Dems, and their hack propaganda enablers in the MSM and Hollywood are dishonest (but they have the best of intentions and goals and are battling evil, ya’know). You cannot believe a word they say.

The rest will suck it up, bitch, and probably cut costs across the board – less retail spending and less charitable giving will be the headliners. That will trickle down but leftists reject the idea of trickle down so it will be dismissed.

Allah is a wizard with cross tabs – do these households vote for more punishment?

But Democrats say the Republican response is little more than faux outrage, and that the White House offer is simply how negotiations are conducted, especially given that Obama comfortably won reelection after campaigning for higher taxes on the wealthy.

“comfortably won reelection after campaigning for higher taxes on the wealthy?”

That’s a rather convenient way of saying “squeaked by after running the most negative election campaign imaginable as an incumbent against perhaps the weakest candidate the opposition had chosen in many years, who was still a person of superior moral fiber to most that had come before him.”

Democrats are overplaying their hand in a big way, unless they’re counting the media cover as part of their hand, in which case they’re doing exactly as they should be doing.

Probably the former. Then what?

besser tot als rot on December 1, 2012 at 4:39 PM

Then … nothing. We’re in the American Socialist Superstate, anyway. Let the left go full-force with their mockery of the concept of law. It’s true that only the dimmest bulbs ever would not know what Barky and the dems are all about at this point … but the Indonesian did just get voted back in. Let the remaining people who actually love America see what the rest of the country installed. Maybe that will help speed up the divorce, which is really a must at this point.

Would they feel the same if a Republican president put his wish-list on offer?

OldEnglish on December 1, 2012 at 4:33 PM

Exactly. The Dems have been doubling down on everything, and getting away with it, because they know the MSM will never question or call them on anything.

Force the feral government to live within its means and nothing else.

Fine in theory. Except it won’t actually stop Obama from spending. Either he’ll ignore the limit or issue an EO raising it. Probably the former. Then what?

If the America-hating left wants access to some more debt, the GOP (if they had a brain) could offer to raise the debt limit by a half-trillion – but ONLY with the proviso that a full repeal of ObamaScare is part of the debt limit bill.

“I don’t think it’s a take-it-or-leave-it offer. I think it is, frankly, responsive to what the Republicans said they wanted, which is a specific offer,” Hoyer added during his weekly press briefing in the Capitol. “That doesn’t mean they have to like the offer. It does mean that they should put a very specific offer back on the table.”

Here’s your counter-offer: G.F.Y.