THE "FISCAL CLIFF" SHELL GAME CONTINUES
Charles Krauthammer on Tim Geithner's Absurd "Deal"

Yesterday, the White House sent Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner to the House GOP with an "offer" in the face of the coming fiscal cliff:

Obama wants another $1.6 trillion in taxes, but not to pare down the national debt. Instead, this would be used to fund Obamacare and entitlements, yet another "stimulus" package costing tens of billions, and other Federal programs. The White House included almost no entitlement cuts and wants Congress to turn control of the debt ceiling limit over to him --permanently.

Apparently, this "deal" was offered in response to the House GOP's offer to reconsider eliminating the current Bush tax cuts for "the rich" if the administration was willing to make cuts to entitlement programs.

Here's Washington Post journalist and pundit Charles Krauthammer's take on this on Fox News last night:

“It’s not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal. What Geithner offered [the House GOP], ....Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the Civil War. The Democrats won [the White House] by three percent of the vote, and they did not hold the House. Republicans won the House [by six percent of the vote]. So this is not exactly unconditional surrender, but that is what the administration is asking of the Republicans.

"This idea – there are not only no cuts in this, there’s an increase in spending with a new stimulus [emphasis added--JME]. I mean, this is almost unheard of. I mean, what do they expect? They obviously expect the Republicans will cave on everything. I think the Republicans ought to simply walk away. The president is the president. He’s the leader. They are demanding that the Republicans explain all the cuts that they want to make.”

For more on this read Charles Krauthammer: Cliff Jumping with Barack Obama

RUSSIA'S PUTIN ON OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana

"...There are no grounds to suggest that by putting the responsibility [for the economy] over to the state, one can achieve better results. Unreasonable expansion of the budget deficit, accumulation of the national debt - are as destructive as an adventurous stock market game. 

"During the time of the Soviet Union the role of the state in economy was made absolute, which eventually lead to the total non-competitiveness of the economy. That lesson cost us very dearly. I am sure no one would want history to repeat itself...."

Read the full article here:
 
Pravda: "Obama's Soviet Mistake"

ENGLISH A RACIST LANGUAGE, EXPERTS DISCOVER*

Perhaps the best solution to this crisis is to stop speaking English altogether (unless you're a liberal):

...."The entire English language was created by slaveowners as a means of oppression. You can’t just say that one word is a racist code word or another....Whenever [conservatives] use English, they are using it to hiddenly express racist ideas. Whenever they speak, they are speaking entirely in racist code words. But when Democrats like us speak English, we’re using tolerance code words."

....Republicans responded to this development with their usual extremism by ridiculing the cry of the oppressed and refusing to repudiate their racism. A number of leading establishment Republicans however have suggested that this represents an opportunity for their party to embrace the future by switching to Spanish....

*Danger! Satire ahead!