The people of the country will blame you for the sequester. The military/industrial complex will blame you for the sequester. If the sequester goes into effect, and the country plunges into another recession, you will be blamed. Wake up. You can't win this one.
I think there is more to the Republican's stance than it is merely 'winning,' There seems to be a more ideological battle, that is not as concerned with 'winning' as it is their perception of what is right and true. While one might disagree with their perception, don't a lot of people complain about the pragmatism of politicians?
ReplyDeleteThat said, history has shown over the course of time, people credit or blame the presidential party. When the events are near, people might blame the Republicans; but as time passes and people's memories of the events become less detailed, people are more apt to apt to blame the highest power, as that is a deep social instinct.
Of course, I know that there is more to the issues than winning. Republicans want to cut taxes for the rich and cut benefits to the poor and middle class. The people of the country want the very rich to pay more taxes, and they do not want cuts to Social Security or Medicare. The Democrats won for a reason.
DeleteThere is an easy fix for Social Security: Raise the FICA cap. Health care costs will need to be addressed. The best way to bring down costs would be a single-payer health-care system that would take the profit out of treating sick people and helping people to stay well.
That might have been true in an age of controlled media, but the people's voice via blog & twitter & all forms digital is not quite so easy to squelch or dismiss as it once was ... the GOP's attempts to get everyone to forget who spent all that money on two wars without a single plan to pay for it all are failing miserably ... their re-hab project is failing ... "W" will never be a hero or generally regarded as a fine president ... Cheney will always be the dark lord of lies ... and the sequester/filibuster of reason will be a GOP legacy.
DeleteYes, I must agree with Mimi and Marthe. The Republicans own this one. This era of the GOP will go down in history either as their waning years or their snap-out-of-it years. They'll have to decide. But right now, they seem busily engineering their demise.
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