Rising Hegemon
With a Thanksgiving deadline fast approaching, a powerful congressional panel devoted to debt reduction is running in rhetorical circles, unable to break the impasse over taxes that has long blocked aggressive action to tame the national debt.And who could have anticipated the main hang-up would be the same thing as it has been every time before?
Democrats have argued that the trigger would force Republicans to the bargaining table over taxes because the automatic reductions would fall heavily on the Pentagon. But so far, that tactic has not worked. House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) and other GOP leaders have yet to show any appetite for significant tax hikes in advance of the 2012 election, when they hope to campaign against Democrats on the issue.I did learn something from this article though, in Village parlance "significant" now means "any".
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[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
2 comments:
Buh, buh, buh.. The New Dork Slimes featured an op-ed about how great it was that the Super-Duper Committee was meeting in secret, because that's how you get shit DONE! dammit! (I'm not going to bother dropping a linky here, because fuck those establishmedia fuckers.)
boner fails cause he goes rite to get the teabags rather than do the right thing and compromise w/ the lift. again the govt is a 1 winged bird.
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