According to Republican House Speaker John Boehner, the agreement reached on the deal is not what both sides want, but lives up to GOP principles. Such principles include "holding the President accountable". Accountable to what? Another GOP principle that comes to mind, based on the outcome of this "deal", is to only represent the wealthy and large businesses by not raising taxes. For now, it does not matter since the Bush tax cuts will expire in 2012 anyway. However, it would have been helpful and really made "the deal" actually balanced in a bipartisan way. Yet, another GOP principle that is implied, is further cuts in social security and medicare/medicaid, thus ensuring disabled people and senior citizens struggle more to survive. Talk about your death panels. Finally, another Republican principle continues to be practicing political terrorism by using the debt ceiling crisis as a means to get what they want, not what the American people need. It is just a matter of the upcoming vote.
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Although it is apparent that the Republicans have no heart, it is also apparent that the Democrats have no balls. The deal that was reached by the House and Senate may extend beyond 2013, but it is without sacrifices that furthers the Republican agenda by making an amendment to the constitution to only suit their needs. However, there are a couple of concessions that may actually help. Even though Boehner and most GOP'ers now say "they won", there are some modest compromises that include some cuts in the private sector that includes defense and the war ending in Afghanistan and the illegal war in Iraq. Under Bush, he believed that putting the country in a state of war would yield unity, job growth, and help the economy even further. NOPE! It did unite the country briefly enough for GOP photo ops and V. P. "Dick" (-head) Cheney's business partners to monopolize on the no-bid contracts to profit from both conflict.
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As Republicans are quick to blame President Obama and his administration on the woes of the country, the facts still show that President Obama inherited the mess 90% of Americans face. Bush and the GOP threw a big party with the surplus left by President Clinton, ignored the warnings of an imminent attack by terrorists, maxed-out the country's credit cards, waited months before going to war that turned into a quagmire, allowed big business and the oil companies to gouge prices on the American people, trashed the country, stripped away rights, caused the greatest loss of jobs, and, according to the Congressional Budgeting Office (CBO), showed no new job growth during both of Bush's terms in office. Did tax cuts and corporate welfare create jobs as declared by Republicans? Obviously, they did not. They only created job losses and will continue to do so as long as Republican policies remain in place.
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Republicans like to use "visual" words that have positive implications for their party and those who support them, such as calling large business organizations "job creators" Technically, they are job creators, but only on foreign soil. Boehner likes to use the term "job killers" to label Democratic policies. So far, the Republicans in the House of "Representatives" are the real job killers when they take away funding to services and kill Democrat-written bills that actually create jobs. Where are the jobs, Boehner?
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As President Obama and his administration continue to try to work with Republicans, one has to wonder how anyone can work with a group that is only working to sabotage the Obama administration, the barely recovering economy, and force more Americans into unemployment just to bring down a sitting President. According to the Constitution, it is treason. While Republicans continue to use political terrorism to get deals for their billionaire friends, it is also apparent that they also use such tactics to give the American people the shaft, including the middle-class and poor that voted for them.
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