The Republican Dilemma

The budget proposal plan offered by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, and embraced by the House Republican leadership, would reduce spending by some $5 trillion over 10 years with structural overhauls to Medicare and Medicaid while also making permanent all Bush-era tax cuts.

Try this little factoid on for size: The elimination of all Bush-era tax cuts over the same period of time would do exactly the same thing without touching Medicare and Medicaid.

And, the Republican dilemma? Do we give the Purple Shaft with the Barbed Wire Cluster to the rich or just stick it to everyone else as usual?

Hmmm, I must ponder on that a moment.

Okay, I'll go with "stick it to everyone else." As the ancient Roman Senators would say, pauperes confutuere.*

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*Editor's note: Through on-line research, that appears to be the proper Latin to English translation for the Republican mantra.

I leave you with this: "Veni, Vidi. Flati"