That Can Gets Further Down the Road

At this time lets take a moment and think about all the commissions that you have heard about in your lifetime. Think about the 9/11 Commission sanctioned by President Bush to make changes in government that would make us more secure. Remember how then the White House fought to keep their personnel from speaking with that same commission.

Remember, more recently, Simpson-Bowles. The truly bi partisan commission created at the behest of the President to come up with ideas on how to solve the nations debt crisis. I believe I remember that the President promised that the report proposed by the group would then receive an up or down vote in Congress. That never happened. Congress could not work out any plans last year so the much spoken about Sequestration was set up, this would set up automatic cuts in the budget, including Defense to be effective January 1, 2013. This would, we were told, finally force Congress to act on our debt problem,

So what happened last night at the Fiscal Cliff? One of the major roadblocks to a deal last evening was the sequestration cuts themselves. Both sides wanted to prevent them, God forbid we make cuts to our bloated Defense budget. What could not be decided was how to prevent them. Democrats wanted to use the savings from the agreed upon expiration of tax cuts, in other words to spend the revenue new gained. Republicans wanted to make further cuts to pay for this extension of Defense spending. Also in dispute how long to put off Sequestration, the Dems wanted a full year, while the right wanted a mere three months.

In this case the Democrats need to be slapped. Eventually you have to deal with the issue. From a political standpoint the Democrats should welcome every opportunity to get the Republicans on record with what they would cut.

The idea of going from Erksine/Bowles to Sequestration to another delay like the Democrats proposed in outrageous and they should be ashamed.

We all know that I was in favor of National Health Care. We all know our Congressman and women have the best health care programs. Perhaps they could all take part in a pilot program that features backbone replacements. These clowns, as a whole, are worse than any people you could pick off the street.