GOP congressman: Republican Party has become too extreme, incapable of governing

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Pity that Mr. Hanna did not condescend to give us any specifics of his alleged ineffectual extremism of the Pubs.

How about the no taxes pledge?

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Pity that Mr. Hanna did not condescend to give us any specifics of his alleged ineffectual extremism of the Pubs.

How about the no taxes pledge?

Oh, I am sure that you could come up with some examples sbane. I was just wondering what Hanna considered "extreme."  Anyway, the tax thing is all mixed up and conflated between revenues, rates, dynamic versus static scoring, and on and on. A majority of Pubs in the compromise deal would sign off on more revenues vis a vis slashing deductions as opposed to rate hikes. It is kind of easy to yammer about "starving the beast" until you lock yourself in a dark room, and read polls that a majority of Pubs don't want any Medicare cuts, or SS cuts, or much of anything else that might inconvenience them. So the slaying of the beast chat is just for rhetorical purposes, as opposed to a serious policy stand. They are not any better at math than the Dems.

The other prong, where the Pubs are far more sound than the Dems, is the means testing of entitlements, which the Dems shy away from for reasons I will address in due course in a little essay that I plan to write, and bury somewhere around here.

The guy who mentioned climate change should have a chat with snowguy. The "war on women" sling is a Dem sound byte. It came about because of this notion that contraceptive care should have no co-pay unlike most other forms of care, coming out of the mouth of a law student who will soon be making 150K per year. It was just bizarre.

We will see. Of course there is no way to fiscal solvency without tax hikes and some entitlements/military cuts. Even cutting all deductions isn't some panacea since it could negatively impact the economy with a prominent example being the housing market.

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Considering that we are in an el nino phase currently, it shouldn't be surprising if the monsoon isn't doing so well over India. Or let's take the drying of the western United States which will occur over the next decade or two. People will of course blame global warming while the PDO goes negative.

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http://www.examiner.com/article/gop-congressmen-criticize-their-party-s-failure-to-compromise

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We can assign blame to both parties if we want, and it's definitely true there is blame to go around, but Republicans collectively suck more. At least moderate Democrats aren't purged out of the party, even if the majority of the party isn't interested in entitlement reform.