Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Kicking the Can Down the Yellow Brick Road!


Republican congressional leaders are, falling over each other, auditioning for the role of the ‘Tin Man” in the TEA PARTIED REPUBLICAN Wizard of Oz sequel – Kicking the Can Down the Yellow Brick Road!  House Speaker Boehner’s, Senate Minority Leader McConnell’s, House leader, Paul Ryan’s  – latest SCRIPTED TALKING POINT is “kicking the can down the road”.  Their talking point refers to blaming the President for THEIR refusal to reduce the deficit dilemma by increasing tax rates for the wealthy so that the rates will be on the same playing field as the tax rates dumped on  middle class families.

During Boehner’s ‘OZIFIED’ remarks at the 2012 Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he promised to lead Tea Partied Republican House Representatives’ and Senators’ REPEAT PERFORMANCE of their summer/2011 protect  the  wealthy’s  “historically low” tax rate battle.  His sentiments were, then, repeated by Tea Partied Senator Mitch McConnell, Tea Partied House Representative Paul Ryan and other Tea Partied elected politicos. 


They think WE don’t remember how they, merrily , skipped down the “yellow brick road” in July, 2011 with  their “if I only had a brain”  PAUL RYAN BUDGET PLAN fiasco  which  a) insisted on spending cuts  to Medicare,  Medicaid, affordable health care, social and educational services for women, children, college students, the elderly and the poor that were GREATER than the amount of the debt-ceiling increases; b) brought the US. Government to a near shut down; c) UNDERMINED international fiscal confidence in the US dollar and d) DOWNGRADED our nation’s credit  rating in a “historical and unprecedented move” from “AAA to AA+”.  (Dailykos..com article entitled “John Boehner: Bring on the next debt ceiling hostage crisis” - Rollcall.com article entitled “Boehner’s Debt Limit Demand Faces Skepticism” - adestcapitalmanagement.com document entitled “Summer-2011”)

The only difference between the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz  and the Tea Partied Republican  ‘Tin Men’ holding office in Congress  is that Oz’s  Tin Man KNEW he didn’t have a heart!


FYI
Tea Partied Republicans have a ‘wizardly’  habit of FALSIFYING facts by transferring THEIR actions to others. We did a Google search on  instances where Tea Partied Republican congressional members  “kicked the can down the road”.  Here are a few starters:


Boehner, GOP kick the tires on a second debt ceiling fight


House GOP Kicks the Can Down the Road – Again!


Many student loan rates are posed to double if Congress, White House can’t agree


Pension mess continues to get kicked down the road


House and Senate Pass 90-Day Highway Extension: Pelosi Blast Republicans http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/house-passes-90-day-highway-extension/


House Republicans Kick the Can Down the Road…Again













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