Poor Jim DeMint. The Republican senator from South Carolina, the financial godfather of the Tea Party movement, the other day had to explain on TV the “compromise” being worked out between his party and the Democrats over extending tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of American earners. And he had to do so while being so deliriously and deliciously bemused about what he and his pals are about to get away with, that the poor man had to fight not to laugh so hard he fell off his chair.
The “compromise,” which according to media reports will extend this rich folks welfare for another two years, was something that never had to happen. The Democrats could have forced Republicans to stand up for the rich few by holding the other 98 percent of Americans hostage. Democrats in Congress would have been reanimated by taking this stance, and their president in the White House would have stood with what most Americans in every poll said they wanted done, and thereby saved his presidency.
By that isn’t the way things are done by Barack Obama and the merry pranksters in his party. After intense cogitation (our president is a very deep thinker), he went along with a deal that can only be characterized as a total sell out. In two years time a Republican-heavy administration will simply extend this rich folks welfare gift permanently. Or, if Democrats still manage formal control of some branch of government, get the party of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner to roll again on the matter.
Oh. Then there’s that poor David Axelrod fellow, our president’s chief adviser. He will leave that post soon to return to Chicago to begin work on the president’s 2012 campaign.
While you’re there, Mr. Axelrod, a word of advice. Get a good job lined up with a Soros-funded think tank, and maybe a well paid column in a local Second City blatt. You’re gonna need this kind of work after the next election.
Third party anyone?
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