In my writing, I frequently use satire to make my point and often make up satirical nicknames to illustrate failings. Two are the Nevada Leg Hound and BARF. The Nevada Leg Hound is Harry Reid, because of his propensity to hump Republican legs, whining for votes and rolling over to play dead when he doesn’t get them. BARF stands for Baucus Against Real Fairness, earned for selling out to Big Insurance during the HCR debate. I am saddened to report that the two have come together in a most unfortunate way.
In the first of what will be a closely watched selection process for a powerful new deficit panel, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he will appoint Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Max Baucus (Mont.) and John Kerry (Mass.) as his three choices for a super committee charged with finding more than $1 trillion in spending cuts by the end of this year.
Murray will serve as co-chair of the 12-member panel. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will select her co-chair and two other panelists, as required by the next debt limit agreement signed into law by President Barack Obama last week. Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell will each select three additional members.
“The Joint Select Committee has been charged with forging the balanced, bipartisan approach to deficit reduction that the American people, the markets and rating agencies like Standard and Poor’s are demanding,” Reid said in a statement. “To achieve that goal, I have appointed three senators who each posses an expertise in budget matters, a commitment to a balanced approach and a track record of forging bipartisan consensus.”
Reid’s three picks are intended to show the Nevada Democrat is serious about forging a bipartisan deal to head off $1.2 trillion in spending cuts required under the debt deal… [emphasis added]
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Both Murray and Kerry are moderates, and BARF is a total Dino.
Keith Olbermann discusses these appointments with Political Reporter Nia-Malika Henderson on Countdown.
I see nothing good coming from Reid’s appointments. Is it time for me to renew the call to replace Reid as the Majority Leader?
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What’s to do? Wait till I win the lottery before I can afford to move to Finland? Or just wait it out – lose my SSI, medicare and disability – and rot on the sidewalks of NY? Nice choice! Seems that Reid is intent on maintaining his pomegranite trees at home more than maintaining peace and logic in his party! Yes call for him to be replaced, but the damage is done – so who cares? Sorry I’ve gone from angry to defeatist!
A victim stance won’t help you, Lee.
Max Baucus?!? *sigh*
Max Baucus?!? *sigh* 😥 That’s the same thought I have.
Here’s a better thought:
http://October2011.org
Kevin I fully support this and would go myself, if health and finances allowed it.
Me three
Sometimes it is very difficult to hope we the people will make it through the mess —
True, but hope is a staple worth keeping.
Poles, East Germans, even Soviet citizens got through the crap these Republicans and Democrats are going to lay on us. Stay cool, build resistance networks in families and among trusty friends. Its easy to build clandestine radio transmitters, print subversive leaflets, circulate anti-regime jokes, whatever. Evade what taxes and other imposts as possible, teach your kids about faith, peace and charity. Never surrender.
And if worst comes to worst, like Churchill said of another lot of Fascists, you can always take one with you.
Welcome, Chris. 🙂
If you are suggesting nonviolent resistance, I agree. If you are suggesting violence, that’s a Republican solution. We’re better than that.