Republican game of "Ring Around The Budget"
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/republicans-just-arent-that-into-deficit-hawks.html
In this piece, he notes that the GOP simply does not care about deficits. There is not a scintilla of evidence that they care about the difference between government revenue and government spending.
They care - exclusively - about lowering taxes and ending government programs. To the degree they care about deficits it is entirely about ending social spending. It has nothing to do with reducing deficits. Look at Ryan's budget. Any reduction in spending is offset by lowering taxes on the rich.
THERE LITERALLY SHOULD BE NO DEBATE ON THIS ISSUE.
Yet, as Chait notes, the media cannot bring themselves to describe the entirely obvious dynamic in Washington.
In fact, I just heard the same "blame both sides" on "even the liberal" NPR (right after a mocking piece about the Internet art that has been created over the UC Davis police assault).
It is no surprise that we can't understand the basic political dynamics in this country when we are being told what's happening by people who won't tell us what's happening.
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