Bombers, Hostage Takers, Extortionists

Daily Kos: Here's a simple proposition: Republicans who think it's a brilliant political move to refuse to compromise on the sequester are nuts. Don't ask me, ask former Virginia governor and Republican National Committee chairman Jim Gilmore. He says:

“That’s the biggest problem with the Republicans” on Capitol Hill, Gilmore, a former Virginia governor, said this morning over coffee and a ham-and-egg biscuit in Alexandria. “They think spending is the most important thing. It’s not.”

He says he has urged GOP leaders to back down and compromise to prevent the so-called sequester spending cuts from going through – “I keep telling them, you’re going to lose this” – and he has strong words for congressional leaders’ focus on deficit reduction as their primary economy goal.

“Above all things,” he says, “they shouldn’t be talking about debt and deficits. Because the left’s got an answer for them.”

That answer would be, raise taxes, which Gilmore says is the opposite of what the economy needs right now – and he’s quite critical of Democrats for pushing tax increases. But spending cuts won’t help the economy either, he says.

Our answer isn't just to raise taxes, it's to raise taxes on super rich people and make sure super rich people  and giant transnational corporations can't use their ridiculous bought-and-paid-for loopholes to completely escape their tax obligations.

And they won't back down. They don't care. Since Newt Gingrich the GOP MO has been to treat government as nothing more than a way to get their people paid.  Anything else and they threaten to shut down the government, default the government, destabilize or otherwise blow up the government.  When it comes to a government to help people, or advance the interests of the country, they don't like it, they don't believe in it, and they damn sure shouldn't be allowed to serve in it.