Pictured here are the two biggest assholes in the House of Representatives. After way too much drama, late last week the Senate overwhelmingly passed a two-month (two pissy little months!) extension of the temporary 2 point cut in Social Security withholding. Politically popular, fiscally silly. Popularity wins.
Anyway, douchebag Speaker John Boehner said he supported it, would vote for it, and so would the House, so let's all go home and chug some egg nog. Two months is kinda weenie, but what the hell, everyone lives to fight another day, and right now we have presents to wrap.
In the words of Coach Lee Corso, "Not so fast, my friend!"
Orange Man forgot to check with House Whip and de facto Top Cat Tea Bagger Eric Cantor. Eric's Band of Buttholes suddenly won't agree to the Senate bill, and without their agreement there is no two month extension, and again nothing will happen. Brilliant!
So Boner has lost control his wacko faction, and now he says the House R's want a one year extension, so as to "provide certainty to the nation's job-creators." Hilarious! Two days ago he said something completely different. They just want the opposite of whatever Obama wants. It's Groucho Marx singing Whatever It Is, I'm Against It.
Who are these "job creators"? Point one out to me. You believe they really give a shit about this? FICA of 6.2% vs. 4.2% means no hiring? The payroll tax cuts at issue are on the employee side, not the employer. And what about all the doctrinaire GOP squawking about deficit reduction? You're for cutting the deficit AND a lengthier (yet still temporary) cut in income? It's Mystery Math! And a load of 100% Grade-A bullshit!!
This really doesn't play well in Peoria. I mean, it's frickin' Christmas! Even Murdoch's Wall Street Journal panned Boehner and Cantor on this one. The Republicans have driven themselves down a blind dead-end alley, and they're stuck.
Who looks good by comparison? Obama and the Dems. Good!
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