From The Washington Monthly's Political Animal blog, the discussion about Paul Ryan's plan to use a filibuster-proof procedural tactic, reconciliation, to pass his budget, led to this comment:
Peter C on May 23, 2012 11:27 AM:
It wasn't just 1981. The Republicans passed both of the Bush tax cuts using reconciliation; that's why they had to automatically expire. They used their razor-thin (1-vote) margin of victory in the presidential race of 2000 to declare a 'mandate' at that time too and governed from the hard right edge with no concessions to any moderate or consensus opinions.
They don't play fair. They don't want to cooperate. They don't even want to govern. THEY WANT TO RULE. If they get a chance, they will empty the cash register (again) and feel like they've earned it. You remember Cheney telling Paul O'Neil, "You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due."? This is how they think; it's who they ARE.
Read Jon Chait on Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney's long game - this is what we're up against, and this is why we have to win the next elections on every level possible: Federal, state and local. If Romney and Ryan have their way, the disparities in the chart below will only accelerate.
Source: Congressional Budget Office
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