"I place...public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared."

"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." – President Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kerchevel, July 12, 1816.

BO is probably so happy right now that he's already planning his next $4 million trip to Hawaii, kindly paid for by the taxpayers of the United States of America, thank you very much.

Seriously, though, BO has spent the last few days doing NOTHING while Slow Joe contacted members of the Senate to make a "compromise" to avoid the Fiscal Cliff. Then, yesterday, the man has the audacity address the public, surrounded by a group of liberal "middle class" lemmings, and angrily shake his finger while attacking the GOP (shocker). Seriously, watch this video and try not to gag. Then, the Senate passes a bill onto the House of Representatives (which for some reason makes people think that we avoided the so called Fiscal Cliff deadline. Yeah. We didn't.) and the bill contains - wait for it - tax increases and no spending cuts!

Let me repeat that. After weeks of the GOP refusing to capitulate to BO's demand for higher taxes on the seemingly wealthy portion of this country, the Senate finally reaches a compromise that raises taxes on the wealthy and doesn't cut spending. (I feel like this kind of sums up everything, with BO as Jafar, of course.) The Liberals are claiming that they compromised because they wanted to increase taxes for singles making about $200,000 and couples making about $250,000 but that got extended to $400,000 and $450,000 respectively. That is BS. And they know it.

The Republicans in the Senate failed and not just "kind of, sort of, compromised their values" failed - they "tripped and landed face down in a pile of dog crap in front of that guy you really wanted to impress" failed. To sum up their failures:

1) Tax revenue is increasing by $620 billion while spending cuts add up to $15 billion. That's $1 cut for every $41 spent.

2) This solution is going to ADD $4 trillion to our national debt over the next 10 years. (The number is from money lost in taxes from people below the $450,000 level, the "doc fix", the extension of unemployment benefits, and taxes on small businesses.)

3) Here are some of the hidden gems of the bill: tax cut extensions to "certain film and television productions" (all the Hollywood liberals who backed BO want their rewards) that reach $430 million, $331 million for railroads, $59 million for algae growth, $222 million for rum production in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, $70 million for NASCAR, and $4 million for electric scooter production as part of the "green" movement.

So, congrats, Senate Republicans, on getting that "compromise".

(The bill passed 89-8. On that note, let's commend the five Republican members of the Senate who have spines and voted against the bill, Mike Lee, Richard Shelby, Charles Grassley, Rand Paul, and (hopefully the 2016 Republican candidate) Marco Rubio. Rand Paul saying (in reference to POTUS) "You may not get any more revenue...but you can say, "I stuck it to the rich people,'" was the most hilariously accurate thing any politician has said about this whole fiasco.)

But here's the best part for BO and the Liberals: they get to blame the Republicans for the tax increases that are going to hit everybody, regardless of income, this year because of ObamaCare. Now, they were going to blame the Republicans no matter what, but this whole Fiscal Cliff has given them ample opportunities to ingrain it in the malleable minds of the lemmings of this country that the Republicans only want to take your money - which is so ridiculously ludicrous that I can't even wrap my head around it. They blame the Republicans for doing exactly what their party wants to do. Ugh. Not even going to go there.

Let's take a look at some of those ObamaCare taxes, shall we?

• The Individual Mandate Tax - This requires a couple to pay the higher of either $1,360 a year or 2.5% of adjusted growth income and the amount will be higher or both by 2016.
• The Medicine Cabinet Tax - This came into effect in 2011 and it prevents reimbursement for over-the-counter medicine except insulin.
• The Flexible Spending Account Cap - This places a cap of $2,500 a year (while it is currently unlimited) on the amount of pre-tax income that can be placed into these accounts. This really hurts middle class families with special needs children, who can use this for up to $14,000 a year, since the majority of this type of healthcare isn't covered by most health insurance.

This isn't all of them, but you get the drift. Everybody's taxes are going up and they were always going to go up. In addition to ObamaCare, by not renewing the Bush-era tax cuts, deductions are going to be cut as well, and BO has always known this, he just refers to his tax hikes as "not extending the Bush cuts" and people don't bother to think about what that means. But, yeah, expect those to be blamed on the Republicans too. 

So where does that leave us? The House of Representatives is supposed to be meeting tonight to decide whether or not to accept the bill or send it back to the Senate for amendments - which is essentially rejecting the bill and pushing us over the Fiscal Cliff (remember how the Liberals have been saying that we avoided that by the Senate's bill? Yeah, they knew that we didn't and that it had to pass the House first, but now they can blame the House Republicans for not passing it. It. Never. Ends.) So here's my say - go over the Fiscal Cliff. Stop the fake compromising and take the blame for the Fiscal Cliff, because they're going to get the blame for all the other taxes anyway, and show the public that the Democrats were so against cutting taxes for everyone that they'd rather have everyone be taxed. 

(The elephant in the room here is how perfectly that plays out for BO - he gets all the taxes from everyone and the Republicans get all the blame).

But this isn't just me being spiteful. This Fiscal Plan solution doesn't work. All that has been accomplished thus far has been that the Democrats have shown that they can manipulate the Republicans and win, because that's all this is for these politicians, a big game with our money (they all got pay raises this week, BTW). And raising the taxes on just part of the population is wrong. It's not a little increase, either - we're talking an increase from 35% to 39.5%. That's a lot of money. And how is it fair to punish people who work hard to make money by taking their money and giving it to people who don't work as hard? Taxing the wealthy doesn't help the economy - it hurts it. Who do the liberals think provide the jobs? Generally, it's the wealthy people. And when wealthy people stop making money, they stop hiring. But I digress. 

House Representatives: You missed your chance with Plan B. You missed the opportunity to let the Dems do whatever they wanted by simply voting "present" and then letting the Dems take all the blame for the inevitable economic failure this results in. This is your last chance - grow some spines and go over the Fiscal Cliff. You have absolutely nothing to lose at this point. 

God bless America. 

EDIT: As I was writing this, the bill was passed. Not shocking, but indescribably disappointing.

Screw it all, I'm moving to Switzerland.

EDIT 2: Obama left for Hawaii last night. Yep.