It’s Simple
Romney holds Obama responsible for the entire budget/debt crisis Republicans have manufactured, claiming that Obama could end it any time he wants:
“It is within the president’s power to say to the leadership in the house and the senate that ‘I’ll cut spending, I’ll cap the amount of spending, and I’ll pursue a balanced budget amendment,’ and if the president were to do that this whole debt limit problem goes away.”
Of course, since Republicans won’t agree to any tax hike (except on the poor or struggling small businesses because they’re slackers who aren’t contributing), and will never agree to cutting defense, basically this means that all Obama has to do is either dismantle Medicare or Social Security, or else reduce both significantly. And take all the blame for it.
See? All Obama has to do is abandon all his principles, betray his party, fall on his sword, and give in on every single demand the Republicans are making. Simple! He can end this any time he wants to! And if he doesn’t, we threaten to run the U.S. economy over a cliff and take the world economy with it.
It is truly difficult to figure out which is the most outrageously inflated–the Republicans’ gall, idiocy, obstinacy, ego, or rank dishonesty. All are stunning in their magnificence.
It’s simple, do what we want and there will be no problems.
And who the fuck does Romney think controls the House?
All spending bills must originate in the House. If the Republicans want a balanced budget, they can balance it themselves. They’re the ones who pass the goddamn thing, Obama can only veto spending bills, not add to them.
This shit really pisses me off.
What pisses me off much more though is that 40+% of this country aren’t equipped to understand what’s going down.
I wonder if Japan’s national debate is this fucked up. I never followed politics in Japan all that closely, just the vaguest outline of whatever the Japan Times would cover.