Mr. Obama said Mr. Boehner had stopped returning his calls when it became clear that rank-and-file House Republicans would not agree to raise revenues on wealthy Americans as part of a debt-reduction deal, despite Mr. Obama’s concessions on reducing future spending for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
— The New York Times, July 23, 2011
By Joel Thurtell
It’s not enough that Obama caved into Republicans’ extortion by compromising social programs so the rich could keep their tax breaks.
Now the Grand Old Party wants their cake and eat it too.
No compromise.
Republicans want to let their wealthy patrons keep their tax breaks. Period. End of story.
They won’t even settle for cuts in programs that benefit normal, unwealthy Americans.
Pigs that they are, Republicans would rather send the entire country into default than tax their rich puppet-masters.
If we miss our Social Security payments thanks to a federal default, we won’t forget who brought it about.
If our Medicare gets slashed, our Social Security cut back thanks to Republican brinksmanship, we will not forget that they were the ones who made us run-of-the-mill Americans, the ones who can’t pay for political clout, into pawns of their nasty power game.
Republicans just can’t bring themselves to raise taxes on rich Americans.
It will not be forgotten.
