Republicans Vow to Cancel Afghan Drawdown Date

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Republicans Vow to Cancel Afghan Drawdown Date
Keeping War Going a Top Priority, Insists Rep. McKeon

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Haha, the dust hasn't even settled yet and the Republicans are already back to their old big government ways. The bipartisan gangbang continues!

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But I thought that reducing federal spending and the deficit was important to these lying teabaggers.

[Sewer]

i am shocked

[King]

To be fair, McKeon isn't a teabagger.  He spoke (rather poorly for a politician) at a Tea Party event so he garnered their dumb votes, but anybody could see he was pure establishment.

The platform on his campaign site promised such and had the typical neocon rhetoric of balancing the budget by vaguely "eliminating wasteful spending" while "winning the wars."  We're one terrorist attack away from the Defense Department being so huge that we could eliminate everything else from SS to Medicare to lease out the Capitol building as office space and still be running in the red and yet cutting "wasteful spending" is all we need to balance this budget.

The Republican establishment has spent so much time successfully convincing voters that we spend $5 trillion a year on bad welfare checks to lazy babymommas in the Bronx, I'm starting to think they're buying into their own bullsh**t.

[memphis]

Was there ever any doubt? Did these people think that war is free? I wouldn't hold my breath for a prominent Democrat to point this out either. Ditto for the GOP thinking you can shrink the deficit by cutting taxes.

[King]

Was there ever any doubt? Did these people think that war is free? I wouldn't hold my breath for a prominent Democrat to point this out either. Ditto for the GOP thinking you can shrink the deficit by cutting taxes.

You can shrink the deficit by cutting taxes, if more people were employed because of it so there was more revenue to eat from at the lower rate.  But it would have to be a really small deficit or even a surplus to work.  And you couldn't add any additional spending after doing it.

No way would such a thing work in this trillion dollar pit we're in.

Plus, the tax rates are at a modern era low.  They would inspire no confidence to employee more people.  Getting a few dollars back doesn't make people want to start a business like it did when Reagan brought down rates dramatically from the New Deal levels.

[Lief 🗽]

LOL at the so-called "libertarians" on this forum who voted for these people. Of course once they fully seize power in 2012, we'll be seeing a lot more wars. It's important that we absolutely loot all the treasure we can before the empire collapses.

[Zarn]

LOL at the so-called "libertarians" on this forum who voted for these people. Of course once they fully seize power in 2012, we'll be seeing a lot more wars. It's important that we absolutely loot all the treasure we can before the empire collapses.

Afghanistan is actually cheaper than what Obama and Pelosi were doing...

[Vepres]

I still think we'll see a lot more anti-war Republicans (not in the leadership, though) than one would think...

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

why would the GOP keep funding a war Obama has no intention of winning?

[Mercenary]

GOP is such a piece of crap. Ugh I hate our government.

[GMantis]

And I thought for a moment the Tea Partiers were actually serious about not being interventionist.