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J.D. Longstreet (Bio and Archives) Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Fiscal Cliff, Conservatives, Republicans, Liberals, Socialists, Tea Party

In the upcoming negotiations between Obama and his Democratic minions in the Congress and the Republicans and their Tea Party faction, The Right side of this debate must be absolutely certain to verify the claims the democrats will make to cut spending.

Like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown, the democrats are certain to snatch those spending cuts away at the very first opportunity—even if they have to create a scenario within which the spending cuts are denied, delayed, or are simply made to vanish.

This ain’t our first rodeo. We’ve seen this happen time and time again. In fact, I daresay, the Republicans are being set up to be smacked down—even as I write these few words.

As calculating as it may sound and, in fact, may be, I suspect the democrats are satisfied to allow sequestration and the avalanche of first of the year taxes to, well, just happen.

There will be tax increases and there will be massive cuts in spending, as well. Of course, there will be millions of jobs lost and a new recession, which will, in all likelihood, be much worse than the one we just experienced.

Here’s another uncomfortable fact for my friends on the right. The republicans WILL get the blame for higher taxes, higher costs, cutting back the military, lost jobs, the new recession, or whatever the results are. The plan is set and in motion. The GOP WILL take the fall. The whole thing is now a no-win situation for the GOP.

If the republicans give in and allow the democrats to increase taxes, then the right side of the party, including the Tea Party faction, will decimate their ranks in the Congress in the 2014 election. That is not an idle threat. And between then and the 2014 election the Tea Partiers within the Congress will make life miserable for the moderate and left-leaning republicans.

Needless to say, this is going to be a very uncomfortable Congress for the GOP. It really makes no difference what they do, they are going to be eviscerated by the leftist media which is to say—the Mainstream Media or, as we like to refer to them around here, the NFM (Non-Fox Media)

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