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Originally Posted by Chacoguy
The Tea Party is full of shit unless they're willing make substantial cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Defense.
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They were driven to such fits of apoplectic rage by the idea that the government might try to make the health care system somewhat more equitable for all Americans that they resorted to "taking my ball and going home" tactics in a futile effort to prevent it, as we're now seeing. I think they'd gut Medicare with a rusty iron hook and take photos of themselves grinning alongside the corpse if they thought they could get away with it.
They'd also be perfectly happy to turn Social Security over to the various bankers, fund managers and other good-ol'-boys-club MBAs who've proven to be so caring and thoughtful about the needs and interests of the non-wealthy over the last several years. They'd do it faster than you could say "The Koch Brothers can kiss my ass" if they could. Privatizing Social Security has been a far-right talking point for a good twenty years now.
Defense, though. That's sacred. Gotta make sure our military is so big and powerful that Nobody Would Ever Dare Attack Us. Just like they didn't dare attack us on 9/11.