Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n
Posturing is not politics. \u00a0It’s pandering. \u00a0Boehner and crew are posturing. \u00a0They lost the election and as even David Brooks admits will be blamed if the country slides off the fiscal cliff. \u00a0It is not bad politics to admit that. \u00a0It’s what politics are about. \u00a0Elections have consequences and one consequence of this election is that Obama and the Democrats have the whip hand on these negotiations.<\/p>\n
Brooks thinks there can be a grand bargain where Boehner and his tea party allies concede the point on the tax revenues in return for a 2013 deal to hammer out a deficit reduction package for 2040. \u00a0Not sure what they have in the air there at the New York Times, but it must be the good stuff. \u00a0Is there a need for a deficit reduction plan that cuts spending and raises revenue? Yep. \u00a0Does have it to be a full platter for the rich and a teeter-totter resting on the combined backs of the poor and the middle class? \u00a0Nope.<\/p>\n
The plan that makes sense has not been put forward, at least in what I’ve read. \u00a0And I’m waiting to see something practical, both politically and economically. \u00a0Somebody has to put one forward. \u00a0Maybe Hillary will do it.<\/p>\n
On the Whitehouse lawn there arose such a clatter,<\/p>\n
the whole nation wondered just what was the matter,<\/p>\n
when what to a wandering pundit appeared,<\/p>\n
but a tax and spend package, what the tea party feared,<\/p>\n
the jolly old elf who delivered the present,<\/p>\n
winked, laughed and said, “Now, it’s all spent,”<\/p>\n
So come back next year and plan to do nothing,<\/p>\n
It’s finished; it’s over; go eat some stuffing.<\/p>\n
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Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon Posturing is not politics. \u00a0It’s pandering. \u00a0Boehner and crew are posturing. \u00a0They lost the election and as even David Brooks admits will be … Continue reading Come On<\/span>