New comment on your post "Haiku for a failed democracy"
Author : Mark Thompson (IP: 74.92.75.125 , mail.wongfleming.com)
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<a href="#comment-78478" rel="nofollow">@Transplanted Lawyer</a>, I somehow managed to drink enough of Bardstown, Kentucky's finest product last night to stomach watching Eric Cantor for 2 minutes, during which he was asked what the Republicans intended to do to reduce the debt.  His response? Roll discretionary spending back to 2008 levels, plus implement the cuts put forward on his "YouCut" website (about a whopping $600 million) dollars.  Because, y'know, the debt's not structural or anything and is entirely the result of discretionary spending.  In essence, what Cantor's saying is that the GOP won't do another stimulus bill (which probably wasn't going to happen anyway) and will save the nation by implementing cuts that wouldn't even be enough to buy the least-valuable NFL franchise.  That's right, the new Republican leadership is in effect suggesting that the nation's debt problems, which were largely the impetus for their return to power, are so modest that they could be resolved if the NFL created a new expansion franchise and donated the proceeds of the sale to the federal government.  

And this is what they're saying <i>after</i> they've clinched a return to control of the House, two years from the next election, and thus at a time when there is minimal political risk attached to being honest about what needs to be cut to ease the debt burden.

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