Death Panels Death Panels Death Panels... everyone run for the hills....

Unserious People:

Now that’s pathetic. Via Steve Benen, Eric Cantor is calling on the public to “vote” on spending cuts — like eliminating $1 million, that’s right, $1 million — in HUD dissertation grants. Because nothing does more to ensure that taxpayer money is well spent than making sure that nobody actually studies what works and what doesn’t.

As Benen points out, however, the real story here is that the sums involved are ludicrously trivial; eliminating everything on Cantor’s list would amount to a rounding error on federal spending.

Meanwhile, of, course, the GOP went wild against real efforts to control spending, crying “death panels.”

The truth is that it has always been like this. Ever since Reagan, the conservative approach has been to talk about the need for smaller government, but refuse to offer any serious proposals for spending cuts, pretending instead that there are large sums being wasted on things nobody wants.

Another example is the shockingly large number of people that think Social Security won't be around in a few years (unless 2042 is a few years??)

 

Thank a talking head near you... oh and the people running the Republican Party (once respectable) into the ground.  There is still hope as I talk to reasonable Republicans everyday going door to door.  Problem is the party is controlled by a radical fringe that is undermining the party and creating a political climate where facts aren't important but birth certificates are.

 

Posted via email from Jim Nichols