How dedicated are the Republicans to their new rules? They are so dedicated that they plan on completely ignoring their new Cut as you Go rule to lead a symbolic charge against the health care reform bill.
This is like a house burglar being released on parole and his first act is to invade a home. When caught he would say I plan on being above board after this so we're all good. If you are willing to break your own rules once and claim "the will of the people" you are willing to do it again.
To make matters worse the new Cut as you Go rules exclude closing tax loopholes as a means for paying for a program. Yes, rather than make some big donor pay his fair share of taxes like you and I, to help pay for more police on the streets or a better quality of education to preserve our standing as the greatest nation in the world, Republicans would rather cut jobs, because according to their ideology, only cuts in government spending can help the economy.
As referenced here before time and time again, the Republicans are wrong on this. You don't have to look any further than the upcoming jobs report which estimates that we added around 300,000 new jobs to the economy, to realize that the Democrats stimulus plan is working. All Republicans are going to do is add to the unemployment numbers by cutting valuable government jobs. This is a olive branch towards the deficit hawks that does nothing to help the economy.
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