Another First For Politidose

Lawrence O'Donnell's opening monologue on his show "The Last Word" on the evening of April 13 told his audience how the Republican's so called budget cutting plans are designed to end medicare and other successful democratic programs and do not really address the deficit problem or national debt. If that sounded familiar to his viewing audience it is because they read it here first on politidose many times over for the last two years.

Finally we have a journalist who has figured out what the republican party is really up to. It sad when one watches the Sunday news programs how so called experienced journalists have no clue. There was one smart democrat Senator who actually understood what the republican party were up to over 25 years ago. That Senator was Fritz Hollings from South Carolina. The Senator recognized that Reagan's record deficit spending spree and debt creation (at that time) was to starve the federal government of needed revenue so medicare, social security and other needed programs would have to be cut or eliminated. Hollings said that many times. That is what is behind the conservative ideology of tax cuts that benefit the wealthy.

The George W. Bush administration proved that while the republicans controlled both houses of congress. They rubber stamped Bush's record deficit spending and debt. They never once lifted a finger to control deficit spending, never once warned Bush about shutting down the government and always voted to increase the debt ceiling when it came due.

Now the country has a democrat President and the republicans threaten to shut down the government and not increase the debt ceiling. The republican budget presented in the U.S. House reduces the highest tax brackets for the wealthy and has $4 trillion in tax exemptions for Corporate America. They also propose to privatize social security and medicare. The warped un-American ideology of conservatives in the republican party is still the same, bankrupt the federal government to eliminate the programs the American people need.