THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

The Democrats of 2011 want to party like it’s 1995.

Howard Dean could barely contain his glee as he honestly admitted that from a  strategy standpoint, Democrats benefit from another government shutdown.

Chuck Schumer unwittingly admitted that his plan was to follow orders and just use the word “extreme” in every sentence to describe Republican activities from budgeting to eating to breathing.

So as continuing resolutions keep our government temporarily open, an honest assessment of how the budget situation got to this point must be repeated.

This situation exists because the Democrats led by the Pelosiraptor in 2010 were a bunch of lazy slobs unwilling and unable to pass a budget.

This has nothing to do with Republicans. The Democrats controlled all the levers of power. Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi had time to pass a budget. They deliberately chose not to do it. The reason for their inaction was because the 2010 election was approaching, and hard choices before an election often lead to electoral defeat.

The Democrats won congress in 2006 by standing for absolutely nothing. The Pelosiraptor offered nothing. The Democrats won as the anti-party to a war weary nation.

From 2006 to 2008 they did nothing, claiming a Republican president was blocking them. Then they got their dream leftist in the White House. They tried to do “something,” but that something proved to be an unpopular healthcare bill that a majority of Americans want repealed. Faced with an already troubling political landscape, the government went into unofficial shutdown mode in mid-2010.

So when the Democrats complain about a government shutdown, it should be pointed out that they are an entire political party of people who do nothing. Watching Democrats shut the government down is like watching French people go on strike. How can you tell?

The last thing Republicans want is a shutdown. Republicans know that while Democrats lack governing skills, the left has mastered public relations. The left is brilliant at doing nothing and blaming others for their failures.

Some would say that a government shutdown is harmless. After all, only non-essential services would be effected. If the services are non-essential, why are they even offered?

This is about public relations. The left will win public relations fights every single time.

This is because the traditional labels of the Democrats as the mommy party and the Republicans as the daddy party still ring true. Liberals give free stuff to everyone while conservatives have to be the bad guys and say no.

Republicans want to cut spending. Democrats want to spend even more. This is who they are. It is what they believe. The very essence of being a liberal means embracing increased government spending to make changes in people’s lives. This is the heart of their ideology. Tax the rich, and spend it on social programs. The fact that this approach repeatedly fails does not deter them.

Democrats want Republicans to make all the hard choices. Then the Democrats portray Republicans as “mean,” “mean-spirited,” “extremist,” “draconian,” “cruel,” “heartless,” and other adjectives that force Republicans to cave.

In 1995 Democrats claimed that Republicans were “cutting” and “gutting” Medicare. This was a total lie. Republicans were slowing the rate of growth. Bill Clinton demagogued the issue and got reelection as the situation got worse. Had we slowed the rate of growth back then, we would not need real actual cuts now.

Democrats say they want cuts provided that those cuts do not affect American values. This is as nonsensical as it is subjective. Every program is important to somebody. What they really mean is maybe we can reduce the military budget by 100% and then spend the rest of the money on more failed social welfare programs.

Republicans have adults in their party, and the lead adult is clearly Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. He has put forward a budget that offers cuts that are wide, deep, and substantive. His plan reduces the national debt by 4 to 6 trillion dollars.

Democrats dislike the Ryan plan but at least he has one. If the Democrats successfully shut the government down and benefit from it, they will then continue to spend into the stratosphere. They simply don’t care that America is going broke. They truly believe we can spend endlessly and devalue our currency and somehow eventually reach prosperity. They get away with this because prosperity is the only thing Americans of the last 30 years have known. The stagflation of the 1970s when they controlled everything is a blip on their radar.

Cutting programs including entitlements is unfortunate, but it is not cruel. Letting America get destroyed because the selfish beggars comprising the Democratic electorate refuses to accept that austerity is needed for this nation to survive.

Republicans are trying to make things better for the next generation. The Democrats are looking only to 2012 so they can retain their grip on power and use it to continue to do absolutely nothing.

Democrats have no governing skills, but claiming that Republicans want to starve children, kill seniors, and harm everybody in between has riled up their core voters. The Democratic Party now primarily consists of uneducated poor people, dopey college kids, angry minorities claiming oppression, mentally deranged homeless drug addicts, and wealthy white uberleftists who secretly loathe all of these people but romanticize them publicly for their own political power.

That is why the left needs the government to shut down. When it was open, they failed to use it to do anything. Making things worse and blaming the GOP is the only weapon of mass distraction left in their arsenal of failed leadership, empty rhetoric, and fiscal and moral bankruptcy.

eric

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