The 14% solution, and all that jazz.

One more Internet link I think everyone should visit: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/219023. It's a C-SPAN video of February 2's House Budget Committee hearing that featured Peter Orzag, the White House Budget Director, as chief witness. Travel to where Texas Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling confronts Orzag with a slide that purports to demonstrate how fiscally prudent the GOP was while Bush was president, as compared with Obama. His presentation actually tries to steal the 2001 budget surplus that Bush inherited from Clinton as part of the average low Republican deficits. Or travel to where Florida Republican Mario Diaz-Balart scolds the administration for trying to establish a bipartisan deficit reduction commission, all the while the GOP representative knows full well that, to pass a budget, because of Republican filibustering obstructionism in the Senate, 60 votes will be needed in that chamber, just to end the filibuster and bring the bill to a floor vote; something the legislated commission would have avoided. (By the way, the Senate bill on behalf of such a commission was co-authored by New Hampshire's conservative Republican Judd Gregg, and was co-sponsored by seven senate Republicans, all of whom, when the bill came to the floor for a vote, voted against it . . . their own bill!)

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When I contemplate the wholly needless travesty that's being visited upon the country, and the chimpanzee-like screeching nonsense from those who are moral- or intelligence-challenged, I want to hang my head in my hands, clasp my hands over my eyes and forehead, as did Marlon Brando's Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, and whimper, as did Col. Kurtz, "The horror, the horror."

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