Karl Rove's foulest vomit ever

I don't give a scrawny fascist's ass about the tsk-tsking of Godwin's Law scolds, because it's now indisputable that Karl Rove must have been there, in 1939, writing Joseph Goebbels' script denouncing Poland's sinister aggression against the noble Fatherland.

To wit:

President Obama says he won't negotiate with Republicans over his proposed more than $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling as a matter of principle because Congress "should pay the bills that they have already racked up."

Set aside the obvious--that he championed the spending and signed the measures that racked up the bills, which Republicans opposed.

Yes, you may have read it there first, in the WSJ, straight from Herr Rove: Republicans opposed the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war and the prescription drug plan and those assorted deregulatory schemes which so ineluctably contributed to mass unemployment and plummeting government revenue--and every one of them "championed" and "signed" by that state senator, Barack Obama.

Furthermore, asserts Reichfucker Rove, "There may be no person in America with less moral authority than Mr. Obama on this issue."

Uhhh ...

Comments

[Robert Lipscomb]

Wasn't Rove the announcer on "Rocky Horror Picture Show"? ("Where's your neck, you beedy-eyed butt-fucker?!")

But, I digress.

The more I look at this, the more I am convinced that Obama is preempting the GOP with debt reduction. The GOP's real goal - for 30 years - has been to use debt as justification for an all out attack on SS, Medicare and Medicaid - with a side of hammering regulatory agencies.

Obama is one-upping them. He is seizing the debt issue negotiate a new social contract via comprehensive negotiations, instead of one-offs.

I am an advocate for significant reductions in future medicare spending. I do not want to cut benefits. I want to cut wasteful spending. Prohibiting the government from negotiating the best deal possible for prescription drugs is an easy example. To keep things simples, let's say that Medicare can be in this way by $1 trillion ($100 billion/year for 10 years). In a comprehensive negotiation, Obama can make the argument, "If we are going to cut Medicare by $1 trillion, then we need to cut the military by $1 trillion. And, if we are going to cut Medicare by $1 trillion, we first need to negotiate the best possible price for everything we receive and only pay for what is appropriate."

The other page of the ledger is revenues. If Obama is willing to make big cuts in entitlements, then everyone needs to accept going back to Clinto era tax revenues - BUT. But, if we are going to raise taxes, then fairness must be hit dead on.

I believe Obama is taking on the herculean task of dismantling Reaganomics - or at least neo-Reaganomics.

[Robert Lipscomb]

Here we go.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130110/NEWS02/301110026/Sen-Lamar-Alexander-proposes-grand-swap-Medicaid-costs

As I have noted before, Nashville is the epicenter of healthcare in the US/world. So, TN is a bellweather state for the industry's political strategy. First, Bill Frist (HCA) came out in support of Obamacare. Now Sen. Lamar Alexander is coing out for the complete federalization of Medicaid - because the industry knows (A) states always run things worse, not better, and (B) the states won't pay what the industry wants.

Why do you think Alexander really stepped down from his leadership position?

The fat is in the fire.

[Peter G]

It doesn't bother me at all that Rove says this shit. It bothers me quite a lot that he says it on television in front of people who call themselves journalists or in press releases to people who call themselves journalists and they let him get away with it.

[shsavage]

@Robert L: "...in exchange for taking on more of the cost of public education..." In Tennessee? The home of this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/tennessee-evolution-bill-haslam_n_1416015.html? I don't think we want TN to have more control over its education system than it already has.

[AnneJ]

Didn't he get his start as one of Nixon's ratfuckers? Yesterday was Tricky Dick's 100th birthday. With Rove rearing his ugly head once again after suffering such devastating and well deserved losses last election, it's a reminder that Nixonian style politicking is still alive and well so many years after the man himself is gone.

[Beulahmo]

"...Reichfucker Rove..."

You've made my day, P.M.

[Robert Lipscomb]

@shsavage: You must ask yourself, "Is our children learning?" :-)

[shsavage]

@RobertL: Well, we haz Honey Boo Boo on TLC. That's edicational.