Eugene Robinson - Demanding the impossible.

[Scuba]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/demanding_the_impossible_20110411/

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The far-right ideologues in the House seek to starve the federal government to the point where it can no longer fulfill its constitutional duty to promote the general welfare. I don’t mean to sound apocalyptic, but that’s what this struggle comes down to.

Their inspired tactic—which has worked so well that they would be crazy to abandon it—has been to take a wildly extreme position and stick to it with the obstinacy of a mule. When Democrats offer to negotiate, Republicans increase their demands. The result is that they shift the battlefield and end up fighting on terrain so friendly that they literally can’t lose.

So an initial GOP call for $32 billion in cuts was raised to $61 billion—a ridiculously impossible number. Of course they didn’t get it—but they got almost two-thirds of the way there.

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[Snotcicles]

1. Eugene Robinson, one of the very best. IMO. nt

[kentuck]

2. But the call for increased taxes is like a wooden stake..

to these vampires. Who knew?

[mmonk]

3. Yep. Read that this morning.

A very spot on assessment of the darkness and where we are.

[hifiguy]

4. Gene Robinson is always a breath of sanity

and fresh air whenever I read or see him. Definitely one of the true Good Guys.

[DirkGently]

5. Gene is spot-on here.