re: #171 Killgore Trout

It’s frustrating that wingnuts can’t even see how bad the messaging is for them. If the meltdown of the system is inevitable then why are they increasing the deficit by giving tax breaks to the richest 1%? It just doesn’t make them look good no matter how they spin it.

Yeah, that’s why I think the Ryan Plan is going to be what gives the Dems back the House. They might have been able to see changes to Medicare and Medicaid, in absence of the tax cuts, as necessary to get spending under control. But tacking on tax cuts for the top 2%, under the ol’ chestnut of “It’ll stimulate economic growth and job creation!,” is gonna be political poison. No amount of scaremongering is going to erase that.