Starving For Funds

We know what the GOP plan is for the economy and the American people are:  starve out the weak, liquidate the unnecessary, rebuild with what's left.

The emerging plan has been devised in part to highlight the policy differences between the two main parties, especially over legislative achievements of the Obama administration that have proven unpopular with voters.

Republican leaders acknowledge many of these salvos will fail. At best, the party will gain a majority in the House and a razor-thin hold in the Senate in November's elections—short of what's needed to overcome a presidential veto. Analysts give the GOP a better shot at taking the House than the Senate.

But Republican lawmakers portray the anticipated drama as foreshadowing the far bigger brawl of the 2012 presidential elections and a clash of visions with President Barack Obama. A vote in the House to repeal the health-care overhaul would be among the GOP's top priorities.

Republican leaders are also devising legislative maneuvers that might have a bigger impact, using appropriations bills and other tactics to try to undermine the administration's overhaul of health care and financial regulations and its plans to regulate greenhouse gases. GOP leaders also hope to trim spending, return unspent stimulus funds and restore sweeping tax cuts.

Business groups have compiled lists of impeding regulations they hope to see stopped under a GOP House majority.

"We need to establish the proverbial lines in the sand and show we are serious about limited government," said Wisconsin's Rep. Paul Ryan, a leading conservative who is in line to chair the House budget committee if Republicans take control.

"Liquidate the unnecessary" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?  Won't it be nice to have Paul Ryan make billions in social spending cuts in the middle of a consumption driven recession as he throws the poorest Americans under the bus and makes the rest of us sacrifice?

Oh, but not all of us remember, the wealthiest of us get nice tax breaks.  We'll need even more social cuts to pay for those.  Now put in a GOP President like Mike Pence or Sarah Palin, and you're beginning to see what would happen to the country, where the weak are culled and the rest exist to make the rich more wealthy.

Fun times ahead.  Boy, if there were only another party besides the Republicans to vote for...