Republican Gang Of Six Following The Same Script As HCR

Remember how back in the summer of 2009 we had three Republican Senators in negotiations with Democrats regarding health Care Reform? But as those negotiations got strung out and the debate turned nastier the Republican members started changing the rules, moving the goal posts every time President Obama agreed to just about every line in the sand they had put out? However despite the President's willingness to drop the public option, drop the so called end of life planning (death panels), met Republicans half way on tort reform, they went a step too far by insisting that Democrats drop the health exchanges, which that and the individual mandate was a Republican idea for the previous decade?

I do and now the Republicans are playing out the Gang of Six talks in the Senate with the same script. The fact that Senator Conrad (D-ND) would fall for the same shell game that Senator Baucus did should be embarrassing and is quite disappointing. Republicans do not want a deal, they want to create a fake crisis so that they can implement their idealogical blueprint for America. Screw the poor and give all those rich job creators more money so they can create jobs, the same jobs they promised when Bush cut taxes twice in the in his first term to a tune of $4 trillion. So what did all of those job creators do with that $4trillion? Well nothing because as Republicans will tell you, they are "Uncertain" about future tax policies and are waiting for more tax cuts, that Democrats oppose.

Today, the Gang of Six s down one member as Senator Tom Coburn dropped out saying that Democrats needed to give in more in entitlements. Well this will of course compel the other Democratic members to cry foul and accuse the Republicans of not wanting to raise revenues and the whole thing will unravel in a week or so. I was certainly hopeful, but now I am just cynical again.

I am praying that the President draws his own lines in the sand and dares Republicans to push the country toward a crisis that is completely unwarranted. Because in my opinion if they throw the country into default and a double dip recession occurs, the Republican party will cease to exist as a viable political party moving forward. It will probably result in a three party system whereas Democrats when most major national elections and Republicans are stuck in the Statehouses.