Originally Posted by Connor

... so as I understand it, there are two bills in Congress right now. One by the Democrats wants spending cuts, the other by the Republicans wants spending cuts. Neither raises taxes on the wealthy, or close loopholes that let huge corporations like GE pay no taxes at all. Both are willing to take shots at social security, medicare, etc. The only real difference has to do with the elections in 2012.

Now we're being told by the White House today that maybe these two "spending cuts only" bills will be "merged" and that this would be the "bi-partisan" "compromise" that Obama wanted.

W ... T ... F ... ?!

Does anyone get this jackass?