It’s Monday in America, meaning it’s a brand new week for the very mature adults in Congress to flitter about like special needs schoolchildren, while our nation teeters towards the brink of catastrophic self-induced collapse.
Hooray!?
Of course, being the mature, weeping, unnaturally orange-tinted Republican House Speaker that he is, John Boehner has naturally decided to stop speaking to anyone and everyone and write his own terrible debt plan instead.
Conversely, boring, normal flesh-colored Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has also decided to stop talking to everyone and opted to craft his very own $2.7 trillion deficit reduction plan, too. So there!
The good news is that both plans do effectively raise the debt limit on or before August 2, avoiding a catastrophic default and turning America into one great big deadbeat dad who refuses to pay child support, so he can watch the game on his new flat screen teevee and drown his sorrows in 40oz of whatever kind of beer it is they package in troughs and sell to poor people wearing wife beaters in the middle of the day.
In fact, the only major difference is whether the debt limit should be raised all the way into 2013, or whether Congress should redo this entire hellish debate again early next year to force Democrats and Republicans to pass entitlement and tax reforms because total dysfunction and the possible financial meltdown of America is one helluva good time! Amiright??
The bad news, however, is that each side is expected to reject the other’s plan and we’ll continue to be royally fucked, which is pretty much what happens when a bunch of immature asshats are put in positions of power and tasked with handling very important issues.
TPM reports:
Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Reid said Boehner’s plan can’t pass the Senate and even if it could Obama would veto it.
“The Republicans’ short-term plan is a non-starter in the Senate and in the White House,” Reid said. Schumer called Reid’s plan a fair compromise. “At this point there is no alternative other than default, and no basis for Republicans rejecting the proposal other than that they want a default,” Schumer added.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy, Chuck! Don’t put words into their mouths! It’s not the economy they’re desperately trying to gut like a fish and plunge down a filthy, slimy chute into the toilet. It’s the president, silly!
What is so hard to understand here, people??
According to Politico:
A day after breathless news reports that a deal was imminent, John Boehner jokingly told his conference that he had reached a sweeping agreement with President Barack Obama to slash trillions of dollars in government spending.
“I’m just kidding,” he added, drawing a laugh from rank-and-file Republicans, according to those in the room.
Oh, hahahahahaha! Since everyone, or at least that one huge Boehner, looooooves jokes so much, here’s one: Republicans are NOT going to crash our economy, destroy our credit rating, and cost us trillions in extra interest on the national debt.
Just kidding!
They’ll just fire more teachers and tell more old people to go to hell.
Ya know, compromise!