It's a little disconcerting

Well, here we are, in a cash-starved government situation. That's what the Tea Party wants, right? First of all let's remember that if the Bush-era tax cuts had expired on schedule, this would not be nearly as much of a problem, both short-term (meaning now) and long-term (meaning over the next decade).

But now the costs of not having money are becoming all too apparent. Exhibit A-hole is Eric Cantor, who never met a poor person out on the street due to a natural disaster that he couldn't kick. So now, despite the suffering and hardship of numerous states due to Hurricane and Tropical Storm Irene, Eric sticks to his shoot-the-homeless guns and says that in order to pay for disaster relief, we'll have to cut somewhere else, nimbly turning our normal governmental and societal license to help our fellow citizens in their time of need into a political football.

Callous does not even BEGIN to describe that.


Cantor Counters

"Remember, Cantor isn’t denying something called “the government” the right to do something it wants to do. He’s denying disaster relief to people hard hit by a hurricane. That is, he’s holding suffering Americans hostage to his goal of smaller government. And the whole point of his offsetting spending cuts thing — his invention of a nonsense principle — is to obscure the ruthlessness of the blackmail involved."

Exhibit B-sh*t is the apparent fact that although one of our nation's most recognized monuments is now in need of repair due to two inconvenient (at least for the GOP) natural events (disasters may not apply to the East Coast earthquake, but it probably does to Irene), the National Park Service isn't sure where they're going to get the money to pay for the repairs.

Ridiculous does not even BEGIN to describe THAT.

Callous and ridiculous -- that sums up the Tea Party succinctly, I think.

More cracks found in Washington Monument



Eric Cantor should be a campaign issue. As in, "Do we want to live in a country that Eric Cantor wants to create?"

I certainly don't.