Good one, senseamp. The way that the Ryan plan coupled taxcuts for the ultra Rich with benefit cuts for the rest of us just adds insult to attempted injury.
Their arrogant disconnect from reality is astounding.
"What the public needs is austerity, and what the rich need is hookers, blow & champagne! Yeh, Baby!"
The sad thing is, it seems 9 times out of 10 their money DOES buy them the political support they need for these policies that screw people.
It's the exception that there's some accountability. Bush passed massively reckless borrowed tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 and went on to win in 2004 not hurt by them.
The main exceptions recently seem to be this Ryan bill on Medicare and some backlash for killing unions at the state level across the country.
But even on the union issue, the Republicans seem to be coming out ahead. It seems they're ok with losing a few recalled people as the price to pay for a major strategic advantage as the Democrats' main source for money against their bottomless corporate sources laundered through groups like Rove is killed off. Their policies are still in effect for years to come regardless of that backlash.
If the Democrats take control of the Senate in Wisconsin, it doesn't reverse any of these policies, where Republicans still have the other house and the governor.
The Republicans just voted - more as a message than policy but still - to default on American's debts for the first in our history to try to blackmail the country - to say in effect, 'if you Democrats don't vote for the same Medicare bill we did so that it's removed as a political attack, we'll blow up the country' - and there's no accountability.
In the recent New York race where Republicans were held accountable, when the Republican was losing, Karl Rove and other Republican corporate PACs poured in large amounts of money to pay for the Republican to put out ads saying she was PROTECTING Medicare while her Democratic opponent was the one who wanted to REDUCE Medicare (based on misusing a quote where the Democrats had said 'everything is on the table to discuss spending cuts'). It's usually effective.
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