A start

The old joke, a long time favorite of ours, goes like this – what do you call a busload of lawyers going over a cliff?

A start.

Well, a long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, some off-the-reservation essayist posting on this website suggested that perhaps it was time for the house of representatives, under the control of the opposition party; the minority party; the party out of power (POOP) known affectionately to most of as the republican party do the one and only thing they could do – stop passing spending bills and other authorizations that permitted the spenders in the majority party; the party in power (PIP) known to most of us as the democrat party to run up big deficits and accumulate record and unrepayable levels of national debt.

Remember we are committed to this fundamental:  deficits = debt = destruction.

Well, read this brief snippet from the Associated Press, July 15, 2014:

“The GOP-controlled House has voted to slash the budget for the Internal Revenue Service's tax enforcement division by $1.2 billion, a 25 percent cut that would mean fewer audits of taxpayers and make it more likely that people who cheat on their taxes will get away with it.

Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., followed up with an amendment to cut $788 million more. The underlying bill already contained a $72 million cut from last year's $5 billion enforcement budget, bringing the total cut to $1.2 billion.

The Democratic floor leader on the funding bill, Rep. Jose Serrano of New York, opposed the amendments but opted against demanding a roll call vote.”

Source:  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_SPENDING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-07-15-12-25-57

The only reason the PIP guy – this Jose fellow, did not require a roll call vote is it would put everyone of his gang – the minority power in the house, on the record voting for the IRS several months before the November election when all of them are up for voter approval.  Or more likely voting with the republicans to save their jobs.  Then what does the man in the white house do?  With his own party on record to cut the IRS?  Veto the bill?  And assure even bigger losses in November?

One thing no one will ever do is go overboard accusing the republicans of being strategists – or at least accomplished strategists.  But you can take this to the bank – there is no way Obama and his minions can spend the US into bankruptcy – or continue their destruction of the American economy – or fulfill their mission of taxing one half the country to pay for the bribes they offer the other half to vote for them over and over again – without the idiotic complicity of the republicans.

We will withhold judgment less if the republicans fold under the propaganda that will follow this action on their part.   In the meantime, we think it is safe to predict that the entertainment value of national politics in this country between now and November will continue to increase although nothing near what it costs those of us who do pay taxes.

But, it’s a start.