Thursday, September 23, 2010
GOP keeps digging, hoping there's a pony in there somewhere
The GOP leadership, with incredibly few exceptions, has never offered up a serious alternative to Obama’s spend-spend-spend agenda. Earlier this year, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Virg.), one of the self-styled “Young Guns,” debuted a YouCut website, where bored prisoners and shut-ins with Internet access could vote on various ways to cut the federal budget. The average annual price tag of each possible reduction came to a whopping $638 million, or about 0.02 of a $3.7 trillion budget. If that’s what these Young Guns are slinging, I’m sticking with Lou Diamond Phillips and Casey Siezmasko. Paul Ryan’s much-ballyhooed “Roadmap to America’s Future” is a serious stab at bringing revenue and outlays into some vague approximation of one another. Yet it only balances the budget in 2063, which might as well be a Zager and Evans song. Dr. Newt Gingrich, who is to the Republicans what Dr. X is to Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime, is on the recent record as holding Medicare and Social Security spending even holier than the Ground Zero Burlington Coat Factory (It’s not just coats!).
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