Rs & ds, compare & contrast

On "Fox News Sunday" today, Chris Wallace had Tim Geithner and John Boehner back-to-back. An interesting study in contrasts.

Geithner (who gave up on the closed fist, now pointing fingers aggressively) made a few points:

• The feds cut 80 million checks every month
• The economy is recovering despite the fact that unemployment has increased and only 18,000 new jobs were created in June.
• Anything that appears problematic in the economy is due to: George W. Bush, oil prices (and the Comrade has nothing to do with that?), the tsunami in Japan, and the weather. 

Wallace  asked him repeatedly if no compromis is reached on the debt ceiling, what's his plan for distributing  those 80 million checks? That is, who will or won't get a check?

• Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid recipients may be affected with default. "Nothing can be done about it." (Note the use of the passive voice, which means basically, "Hey, shit happens.") 

Then John Boehner came on, and before Chris Wallace even asked a question, Boehner noted, "I know the president is worried about the next election, but shouldn't we be worried about this country?"

Wallace asked about a proposed deal Boehner had with the Comrade last week, which included $800 billion in increased revenues for the government. Where would these additonal revenues come from?

• A flatter and fairer tax structure
• Economic growth
• NOT an increase in taxes

Boehner added:

• "I didn't come here to be a congressman. I didn't become Speaker because I wanted a big fancy job. I wanted to do something for the country."
• "If we do the right thing for the country, we won't have to worry about what happens in the next election."

Gee, I don't know. Who do you like better?

And let's not overlook Senate Majority Whip Dickhead Durbin (d-IL), who had to stick in his two cents from Chicago -- not on the Sunday show, but in a brief clip. Dickhead wants us all to know that the Republicans are stubbornly standing in the way of more unbridled and irresponsible government spending that will turn the USA into a badly managed copy of Zimbabwe.

Yeah. We know. That's why we voted Tea Party last November and why we will vote that way again in 2012.

Thanks, Mr. Boehner and Mr. Cantor. If anyone suspected you were getting wobbly and losing a sense of commitment to supporting free market capitalism and individual liberty in the USA,  maybe they'll think again.

Tried to email Boehner yesterday with my support -- the servers were tied up. So I guess I'm not the only person standing behind him. In fact, in polls over the last few weeks, anywhere between 60% to 70% of the US population wants to cut spending and doesn't want to increase the debt ceiling.

Save the Republic.