Obama has repeated once again that he will throw the nation off the fiscal cliff if Republicans don’t capitulate to his demands for class-warfare tax hikes.
This is a serious topic worthy of weighty analysis, but I don’t really have anything to add to what I’ve written before – particularly with regard to the threat of a Bowles-Simpson package of real tax hikes and make-believe spending cuts.
But I did see this new cartoon, which is funny in part because it’s a good follow-up to this great Ramirez cartoon.
Click here, by the way, if you want more serious analysis of this issue (as well as another good fiscal cliff cartoon).
And if you want to know the right approach, that’s simple. Take the sequester and then tell Obama that no tax cuts get extended unless all tax cuts get extended.
Republicans managed to win in 2010 with that position, even though they didn’t control the House and only had 41 seats in the Senate, so surely they can prevail again now that they have much more power.
Assuming, of course, that they actually want to reduce the burden of government spending.
[…] Besides, it’s quite possible that Obama is bluffing and this is the right way to get all the tax cuts extended. […]
[…] Besides, it’s quite possible that Obama is bluffing and this is the right way to get all the tax cuts extended. […]
I suspect that Boehner and Obama have already reached agreement on the fiscal cliff. Now all they have to do is sell it to we the sheeple.
So they are shining up the mirrors and puffling out the smoke to create the very best spectacle they can muster.
It is a con.
I recently posted “Why the GOP lost the presidential election” at http://www.grandmathunder.com There is data there vital to bring this fiasco back under control.
Lynn Verhoeff
Grandma Thunder.
[…] amusing cartoons, I’ve already warned that the hysteria about the fiscal cliff is basically a ploy by the politicians to extract more revenue to finance bigger […]
[…] amusing cartoons, I’ve already warned that the hysteria about the fiscal cliff is basically a ploy by the politicians to extract more revenue to finance bigger […]
Both cartoons are great. The first one encapsulates the future Americans have chosen for themselves.
Government spendig could have been stopped at ay time in the last 2 years if the Republicans had chosen to appropriate funds for specific things instead of rubberstamping an automatic extension of everything. All of these unconstitutional activities would have dried up without the money that the House of Representatives has appropriated to keep it running.
In regards to the title of the post, I will take door number 2.