tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3337925625153787111..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The News Is Worse Than All BadFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-37334745596570316932012-12-17T17:54:05.929-05:002012-12-17T17:54:05.929-05:00There are very few conservative politicians who ar...There are very few conservative politicians who are concerned with much more then their next election. Almost everything they do is guided by this instinct and not by doing what is best for American citizens. The Democrats are far worse in that they are in it for the loot. They intend to loot the treasury and even the future treasury. They sprinkle the money around to get friends and power so they can loot some more. Once Obama and the Democrat congress began borrowing and printing money in the trillions a defacto tax on the American people was created. Now putting the tax legislation in place is merely a technicality. It cannot be avoided (well, it could be but to do so would require actual conservative politicians who put the American citizens first). If Romney had won and if the Republicans had taken back the Senate then it would be the Republicans calling for tax increases. Mabe not these exact increases but increases of some sort. None of this will work. We will have an economic collapse and in fact may well be in one now disguised by massive printing and borrowing of money. This will end badly and probably soon. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-44192597986337600522012-12-17T16:00:27.885-05:002012-12-17T16:00:27.885-05:00Boehner is Chamberlain. The desire for a deal, any...Boehner is Chamberlain. The desire for a deal, any deal that he can wave and declare "fiscal sense in out time" is paramount with this pathetic, spineless worm.<br /><br />It makes you wonder about the kind of femme fatale hold that office has on these people. The addiction is almost sexual in nature, the overwhelming physical need to possess a position as if it were the only thing in the world that was real.<br /><br />Boehner is like a junkie, a sex addict who must do something, something soon, something right now, something, anything to fill that need of keeping the pressure off, relieving the strain, ameliorating the stress of not having done something.<br /><br />The desperation of the man is appalling. And why are his colleagues so weak as to not see for themselves what an entirely empty human they have representing them?Mark Butterworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16255194496193819307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-32467466772193525012012-12-17T11:02:53.136-05:002012-12-17T11:02:53.136-05:00There is a third possible explanation. Boehner, pr...There is a third possible explanation. Boehner, predicting (correctly, as it turns out) that Obama would completely and utterly refuse to make any concessions whatever on spending, made an "offer" of compromise which he knew in advance would never be accepted, and thus he'd never have to actually make good on it.<br /><br />Thus he and the Republicans get to be the "reasonable" ones who are open to discussion of both sides of a serious issue, while Obama and the Democrats get cast in the role of hard-line lunatic obstructionists, determined to have their own way with no possibility of even small compromise for the good of the country.<br /><br />Will it do either the Republicans or the nation any long-term good? I kinda doubt it. But given that no true compromise is possible at this point, and instead the fight must continue until one side surrenders, I think the most plausible interpretation of any "negotiation" is that it's less about policy than about theater.lelnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600824544185328505noreply@blogger.com