Okay…. I just read this over at Eschaton. Many of you probably have as well.
Fiscal Hawks: Rich people in Nassau edition.
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Facing a huge budget deficit when he took office in January, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano did not impose a hiring freeze. He did not stop borrowing to subsidize some of the richest school districts in the country. He did not eliminate the Police Department’s beloved mounted unit.
Instead, Mr. Mangano, a Republican who won one of the first upsets of the Tea Party era, did what he had promised: He cut taxes, adding $40 million to the county’s deficit, which has since reached nearly $350 million.
Now, with its bonds suddenly downgraded and a state oversight agency preparing to seize its checkbook and credit cards, Nassau is on the verge of a full-fledged fiscal crisis.
Just 11 years ago they had to be bailed out by the state.
The jaw drops. Words don’t form in the brain. The blogger shakes his head and rubs his eyes like the archetypal skid row drunk from a Three Stooges Short who just saw a mummy. Throws bottle of whiskey in trash can.
Here is the thing. REPUBLICANS ARE OPEN ABOUT BEING FULL OF SHIT IDEOLOGICAL MORONS WHO ONLY WANT TO FUCK SHIT UP, AND OBAMA KEEPS THINKING THAT THEY ARE NEGOTIATING IN GOOD FAITH!!! It isn’t the Senate. The Senate is symptom. Modern Republicanism is the disease.
Dang it. I promised that I was not going to make this about Obama. Sorry ya’ll.