Nancy Pelosi said today that the government must cut spending, and then, using her own rather peculiar brand of logic, went on to explain that: "Tax cuts are spending." Now who other than a Democrat could come with such a blatantly dishonest premise. So far we've had one Democrat claim that we don't have a spending problem, we have a "paying for" problem, another Democrat say, no, what we really have is a "misallocation of wealth" problem, and now Pelosi saying, well, yes we do have a spending problem, but since tax cuts as actually a form of spending we need to get rid of those as a way to cut spending. Who's stupid enough to believe that nonsense?
"Our whole budget is what $3.5 trillion," Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill press conference. "So, when we talk about reducing spending, we certainly must, and we certainly have--$1.6 trillion in the previous Congress, $1.2 of it in the Budget Control Act." She then went on to say, "But spending is also related to tax cuts." To Pelosi's way of thinking, tax cuts are spending. They're called tax expenditures. Subsidies for big oil, subsidies to send jobs overseas, breaks to send jobs overseas, breaks for corporate jets. Democrats call them tax expenditures. Spending money on tax breaks. "And that’s the spending that we must curtail as well," Pelosi said.
One little factoid that Pelosi, as well as many other Democrats, really never make any mention of, is the fact that back in fiscal year 2006, the last full fiscal year before Pelosi became House Speaker, the federal government spent $2.65 Trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury. In fiscal 2011, the last fiscal year that started when Pelosi was Speaker, the federal government spent $3.59 Trillion. Thus, from fiscal 2006 to fiscal 2011, annual federal spending increased by whopping $940 Billion—or 35 percent. We are now living so far beyond our means that for anyone to deny that what we have is, in fact, a spending problem is to deny reality.
Pelosi also brought up how it is that she perceives Barry's treatment of the opposition. She actually said that he has "tried so hard to listen, to accommodate, to be respectful of" the Republicans in Congress. I guess what she bases her idiotic perception on is the tact that Barry invites 12 RINOs to dinner on Wednesday night and met with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan over lunch on Thursday in was what described as an attempt to reach out to Republicans on Capitol Hill. So, will our guys prove that they can be bought for the price of a meal? I'd like to think not, but with this crowd one never really knows for sure.
So it was then that during her weekly press conference Pelosi was asked if the reason Congress and the White House have failed to reach a "grand bargain" was due to Barry’s "not reaching out" to rank-and-file Republicans. To which she responded, "This president has been so respectful, given so much time to the Republicans and their views to the point that at one time in one of our meetings I said to the president, ‘Mr. President, I’m busy, and I don’t have any more time for this,’" Pelosi said. "‘You have to be the busiest person in the world. If and when they come up with a new idea why don’t we just call you back into the room?’" Pa-lease...
Pelosi went on, making absolutely no sense, but did her absolute best to portray Barry as doing all he could to work with those stubborn Republicans. She said, "Because he has tried so hard to listen, to accommodate, to be respectful of their points of view." And she continued, "No, I do not think this is why we didn’t reach a grand bargain." Then taking aim on the Republicans, she added, "I think we didn’t reach a grand bargain because the Speaker of the House [John Boehner] walked away from an agreement that he and the president had arrived at probably because he couldn’t see it to his own caucus," Pelosi said. "And I don’t care what anybody else says about that.
Putting all of these silly little meal events aside, and contrary to all of this rosy bullsh!t from Pelosi about how Barry's being so "respectful" of the opposition, he's really done nothing more than to hold several campaign-style rallies insisting that dealing with the sequester include raising taxes on the wealthy despite securing a rate increase on Americans earning $400,000 or more earlier this year. He held one face-to-face meeting with congressional leaders on the sequester, which lasted for seven minutes on the day it took effect. Barry has continued to spew his typical incendiary rhetoric accusing Republicans of just about everything.
Barry likes to claim that the GOP is choosing to protect the wealthy over "our kids’ schools." Barry said, "Are Republicans in Congress really willing to let these cuts fall on our kids’ schools and mental health care just to protect tax loopholes for corporate jet owners?" This is an example of our trash-talking president before the cuts took effect. And there was more of this garbage when he said, "Are they really willing to slash military health care and the border patrol just because they refuse to eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies?" Is this what Nancy means when she said that Barry "tried so hard to listen, to accommodate, to be respectful of" the Republicans?
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