re: #120 pat

Pat Caddell has speculated that it is more than curious that a 1,250 page Bill with incredible detail was found on the shelf. No one in Congress professes to be the actual author. Likewise Cap and Trade. He suspects that these and other Bills in the wings are the product of far left special interest groups.

Exactly. Isn’t it amazing that these things are just ready to go?

Of course they’re being written by extremely clever, extremely left-wing lawyers. I suspect that they may have been years in the making.

The persistence and indeed the unbelievable determination of these people is formidable, as well as really scary. Right now is the one chance in a million, which they probably had given up, in their heart of hearts, on ever getting in real life.

Be assured they are going to make the most of it!

The basic tactic will be reverse of Reagan. Reagan was “starve the beast” - lower taxes so much that the govt programs will die. Didn’t work all that well.

This one is the opposite. Spend so much money that even the most conservative people will agree that taxes will have to be raised a great deal to avoid financial catastrophe.

And so, oddly, we are going to have to rely on the Chinese not to buy our debt, so that the spending will be controlled. Somehow.