Problem Solving 101 – Republicans

Some of the Members suggested we set up posts where we concentrate on coming up with solutions to our country's (and the World's problems), rather than just complain about them.

I love that idea but I still think we need to point out things that need to be solved.   I'll be honest, I'm not a Republican.  I know this may come as a shock to many of you as I hide it so well but – well, I just don't like those guys.  It's not the "Conservative Values" stuff, which is basically a joke anyway with Republican sex scandals outnumbering Democratic ones by 2 to 1 over the past decade (and with Democrats it's usually a MAN and a WOMAN, who is over 18 – with the Reps, it's ANYTHING GOES!) and it's not even a contest when you compare indictments for other evil activities. 

No, that doesn't bother me but, as Barry Ritholz so rightly put it: "I am not a Democrat, because I have NO IDEA what their economic policies are; and I am not a Republican, because I know PRECISELY what their economic policies are."  While I agree with Barry that BOTH parties are loathsome and corrupt and selling out our nation to the Corporate Kleptocracy that has taken over our once great nation (and Bloomberg had a nice report on the Koch Brothers this weekend) - I have simply decided to choose the lesser of two evils.  The Democrats are not quite beyond redemption but the soul of the Republican party was corrupted so long ago that I feel it is completely beyond redemption.  

Let's take Thursday night's Republican debate, for example.  There we were with eight "different" candidates, and, about 48 minutes into the debate, Bret Baier, asked the eight candidates on stage whether any of them would walk away from a “real spending cuts deal” that required one dollar in new tax revenue for every 10 dollars' worth of reductions.

To put this in perspective, Mr. Baier's hypothetical deal, if it entailed rescinding the Bush-era tax cuts only on Americans earning more than $1 million annually, would yield something like $6 trillion in spending cuts — a lot more than anyone is actually talking about.  

EVERY ONE of the Republican candidates INSTANTLY and emphatically raised his or her hand, as if Mr. Baier had just asked whether they liked puppies…