What a waste...

The Republican Senate leaders today presented a letter to Harry Reid describing how the current Republicans in the Senate will handle themselves in the upcoming sessions prior to a new Senate configuration next year.

You can see the letter on the Republican Senate website here.

This is what I don't understand...

While there are other items that might ultimately be worthy of the Senate's attention, we cannot agree to prioritize any matters above the critical issues of funding the government and preventing a job-killing tax hike.

How do you fund the government at the same time you're preventing tax hikes?

Where is the funding coming from? 
You're decreasing taxes on personal income, but expecting the taxes small businesses pay to increase because the owners of the small business are persons whose taxes were not increased so they were able to increase the size of their business?
Or is the funding coming because the people whose taxes were not increased spend the money in the marketplace and create more revenue for small businesses and corporations?
I don't get it.
Shouldn't politicians at least TRY to make sense?

I thought the government spent most of the last decade taxing nobody and buying everything and we don't have a booming economy that investors can count on.

They're so convinced they're right and won't give anyone an opportunity to try any other idea - even when the votes in the 2008 election made it clear we wanted to try something else - if it's not their idea.

What arrogance and childishness they're demonstrating. 

I would like the government to invest in small businesses. 
I'd like the government to invest in small manufacturing companies so we can start creating things again.
I don't think a service economy is a stable economy.
I also wish we would invest in science and technology that helps us come up with new ways to conserve our natural resources, or new ways to use the resources we have.
I'm all for the space program - let's get back into space.

If the government could invest in these things more jobs would be created and whole new industries born.  That's how to spark the economy.

I think that's what Obama's been trying to do and he's been thwarted at every turn by the pesky little mosquitos who aren't interested in governing but are only interested in staying in power by using the emotionally volatile and easily manipulated public to create trouble.

That's what I think today.