Senators giving speeches today about how the deficit is THE most important problem facing America

[Vinnie From Indy]

Senators are lining up on CSPAN2 to give speeches about getting SERIOUS about deficit reduction in 2011. This is the open comment period on the tax bill. Remarkably, they will vote in a few hours to make it much worse with this abomination of a tax bill. It is the most surreal bit of infotainment on the TeeVee at this moment.

[Vadem]

1. Yes, I'm watching it and asking them from my living room,

"are you going to vote against this monstrous bill?" Hell, no, they won't!

It is all theatre, except for Bernie and a few more!

Wyden just stated that he will vote no.

[KansDem]

2. Shades of this cartoon that appeared last Friday...

[Autumn]

3. What a bunch of fucking liars,

shows what greedy leeches they are. Bitching about the deficit when they and Obama compromised to outrageously raise it. They are not serious about a fucking thing.

[originalpckelly]

4. Ah, yes. Hypocrisy.

I wonder people will react to this next year? Will they passively accept this shit or will they do something about it?

[newspeak]

5. yes, the biggest fekkin hypocrites in the world!!!!

okay, in the world might be a tad illogical. However, repukes with some DLC have a disturbing trend and it does not bode well for us. Remember when Little Boots started his bogus war in Iraq, and gave his war profiteering contractor friends billions of our money? Remember that plane load of cash that flew into Iraq? Remember when Rummy said that over one trillion dollars was unaccounted for at the pentagon. They've been shoveling our money to their best greedy buds for awhile--while Little Boots with his great tax cut for the rich and infamous created very little jobs in eight years. So, he increased the deficit (like the teabagger's god, Ronnie) to 89%. THE REPUKES CREATED THE PROBLEM, with their massive deregulation shite, especially on Wallstreet and all of the other boondoggle crap, just so they could shovel our money to their corporate buddies.

And now, they expect the plebes to have a very short attention span, because they have the solution. That's right, they have the solution to the mess they created. Unfortunately, it seems that their solution is to give the greediest and wealthiest more of the same and, because they created the problem, leaving the plebes in quite a fix, some have no or little pension, no DECENT job and no home. So their solution is to punish the unemployed for being downright lazy, and punish the elderly for being downright greedy and punish the disabled because, really, they're in the way--see they're not a corporate asset. SO THE FOOLS THAT KEEP VOTING FOR THESE CORRUPT GREEDHEADS EITHER THINK THEY'RE IN THE SAME CLASS OR THEY REALLY HAVE GONE OVER THE EDGE IN LOGIC. (I'd say they've listened to too much Limpballs, O'lliely and Becker.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

6. Just posted a thread on the same topic...

The Massive Debt Bomb Threatening You And Me
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x9909

[SocialistLez]

7. Cognitive dissonance...or they just don't give a fu**

The deficit matters when people need unemployment benefits, Pell grants, etc. but when the rich need tax cuts: Deficit be damned.

[DaveofCali]

8. They are all going along with the Republican Plan to destroy the social programs

The idea of course since the beginning (since Reagan) was to run huge deficits and then say that we need to cut back, and the real plan was to use the resulting deficit crisis as an excuse to attack and eventually destroy the federal government's social programs and thus the New Deal. The U.S. Deficit Panel just further indicated this.

[L0oniX]

9. Gee ...was this before or after the trillion $ 2010 budget for the pentagon?