Republi-CONs Con the Tea Party, Cont.

UPDATE IV: Those Republi-con budget cuts were all smoke and mirrors, and slick accounting gimmickry (a gimmick is a "device employed to cheat, deceive, or trick"). Read the Washington Post, Budget deal: CBO analysis shows initial spending cuts less than expected, which begins:

"A federal budget compromise that was hailed as historic for proposing to cut about $38 billion would reduce federal spending by only $352 million this fiscal year, less than 1 percent of the bill’s advertised amount, according to the Congressional Budget Office."

UPDATE III: "Without more revenue, there is no hope of tackling the federal budget deficit." Read The New York Times, Budget Battles: Tax and Spending Myths and Realities, which begins by noting that the "House Republicans’ budget plan . . . [would] cut spending on government programs over the next decade by $4.3 trillion . . . [but also] cut tax revenues over the same period by $4.2 trillion."


UPDATE II: For more 'pretending' about the deficits icing on the Republi-con balanced budget cake, note that even the Republi-con hyped 'Ryan budget' would be unconstitutional under the Republi-con proposed Balanced Budget Amendment. Read the Washington Post, The Balanced Budget Amendment vs. the Ryan budget.

Time to call the Republi-con bluff!


UPDATE: Want more proof that the Republi-cons are just 'pretending' about deficits and balancing the budget. Even Paul "Ryan’s Roadmap — a draconian but detailed plan to partially privatize Social Security, voucherize Medicare, block grant Medicaid, and eliminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program — would not meet the 18% of GDP spending cap for more than half a century. " Read the Washington Post, The Worst Idea in Washington, part IV.

The latest Republi-con con, a Balanced Budget Amendment. "It’s so unrealistic that it would’ve ruled all but two of the last 30 years unconstitutional, which means it’s so unrealistic that there has not yet been a Republican president who has proven it can be done. And that doesn’t just suggest it can’t be done: It suggests that when Republicans are actually in power and have control of the budget, they know perfectly well that it shouldn’t be done. They’re just pretending otherwise for the moment." Read the Washington Post, The worst idea in Washington.