There He Goes Again

"[A]t least Republicans respect Americans enough to tell us what they really think."

That's not worth dignifying with an insult. But I'll try.

Republicans say that the deficit and debt are existential threats. But if they honestly believed that, they'd support SOME tax increases if only to save the country from ruin. What they really believe is that the social safety net -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid -- should be dismantled and capitalism left to work its magic unregulated, and the rabble left unprotected.

Bush and Reagan ran up the debt and deficit to create a crisis -- starve the beast, they called it -- so they could dismantle the New Deal. Grover Norquist and his GOP marionettes want to "strangle government in the bathtub," or some weird construction like that.

You Lie!

But no, David, they won't tell us that. Because they don't respect us enough, and because they know they'll be pilloried at the polls.

David, you're still struggling with intellectual honesty. Try harder.