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The Race To Cut The Deficit Starts Right After The Bush/Obama Tax Cuts

By Big Tent Democrat

Ezra Klein writes:

[A WaPo poll a]sked whether Obama and the Republicans were sincere in their desire to reduce the budget deficit, Obama beat the Republicans by a wide margin[.]

Ezra thinks this is good news. I think it is terrible news. Now that the Bush/Obama tax cuts have passed, the race to prove "quien es mas macho" about cutting government spending has begun. Howard Fineman writes:

Republican leaders in Congress, blindsided by grassroots fury over the tax cut deal they made with President Obama, are now scrambling to show their allegiance to the anti-federal, anti-debt movement.

The GOP brass, led by Senate party leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), did so tonight by eagerly backing the successful efforts of Tea Party favorites to block debate on a $1.1 trillion "omnibus" spending bill that would fund the entire federal government until next October [. . .] The omnibus bill also contained the spending priorities of the Obama administration and the soon-to-be-ended Democratic-controlled Congress.

[. . .] Game, set, match Tea Party.

Game, set, match, Grover Norquist and his project to dismantle the social safety net. Who will be the highest bidder in the Grover Norquist shrink the government sweepstakes? Will it be the "greatest progressive President since . . ." or the Norquist GOP? I think it is going to be a tie.

Laissez les bons temps rouler.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 17, 2010 (boomark / email).