Bachmann running neck and neck with Romney in Iowa

[MadImmortalMan]

A deficit is sustainable if it is offset by GDP growth and inflation. A deficit that is 2%-3% of GDP should be sustainable.

Depends on the type of borrowing that makes up the deficit.

[The Brain]

How much is borrowed from the mob?

[MadImmortalMan]

How much is borrowed from the mob?

If you're Greece, most of it.

[Fate]

Didn't Huckleberry win Iowa last time?

Yeah. Iowa seems to be a lock for the social conservative candidate. Romney just needs to do well in Iowa, not win it. He'll have New Hampshire in his pocket.

[Razgovory]

I'd like them to put up or shut up.  So far all I see is, "Times are bad, we think the burden should be born by someone who is not us.", type thinking.

  Retirees are all Democrats?

I have no idea how you came to that conclusion.  You and I are at totally different wavelengths, Rev.

[citizen k]

Didn't Huckleberry win Iowa last time?

Yeah. Iowa seems to be a lock for the social conservative candidate. Romney just needs to do well in Iowa, not win it. He'll have New Hampshire in his pocket.

I think Ron Paul would do well in New Hampshire as well.

[Fate]

Didn't Huckleberry win Iowa last time?

Yeah. Iowa seems to be a lock for the social conservative candidate. Romney just needs to do well in Iowa, not win it. He'll have New Hampshire in his pocket.

I think Ron Paul would do well in New Hampshire as well.

Dear god I hope not. The last thing the Republican party needs is a legitimization of his views.

[citizen k]

I think Ron Paul would do well in New Hampshire as well.

Dear god I hope not. The last thing the Republican party needs is a legitimization of his views.

Of course the Dems would rather face Bachmann in the general.

[Habbaku]

Of course the Dems would rather face Bachmann in the general.

Please don't talk to it.

[Viking]

I think Ron Paul would do well in New Hampshire as well.

Dear god I hope not. The last thing the Republican party needs is a legitimization of his views.

The Republican Party is truly in dire straits when Ron Paul is considered "one of the sane ones".

[Admiral Yi]

I have no idea how you came to that conclusion.  You and I are at totally different wavelengths, Rev.

Ryan suggests cuts to Medicare.  Medicare goes to seniors.

Razgovory suggests Republicans only cut programs that don't go to "us."

Yi concludes Razgovory thinks seniors are not Republicans.

Razgovory expresses confusion.

[grumbler]

I have no idea how you came to that conclusion.  You and I are at totally different wavelengths, Rev.

Ryan suggests cuts to Medicare.  Medicare goes to seniors.

Razgovory suggests Republicans only cut programs that don't go to "us."

Yi concludes Razgovory thinks seniors are not Republicans.

Razgovory expresses confusion.

You win the strawman contest.  'grats.

[Razgovory]

I have no idea how you came to that conclusion.  You and I are at totally different wavelengths, Rev.

Ryan suggests cuts to Medicare.  Medicare goes to seniors.

Razgovory suggests Republicans only cut programs that don't go to "us."

Yi concludes Razgovory thinks seniors are not Republicans.

Razgovory expresses confusion.

Yep, totally different wavelengths.  I thought I was clear, I was talking about cowboy poets.

[Admiral Yi]

Yep, totally different wavelengths.  I thought I was clear, I was talking about cowboy poets.

I see.  So when you posted "So far all I see is.." what you really meant was "So far at least one thing I see is."

Another possibility is you only read the part about Ryan's proposal that mentioned cowboy poets, and had never heard he is proposing cuts to Medicare.

[Razgovory]

Yep, totally different wavelengths.  I thought I was clear, I was talking about cowboy poets.

I see.  So when you posted "So far all I see is.." what you really meant was "So far at least one thing I see is."

Another possibility is you only read the part about Ryan's proposal that mentioned cowboy poets, and had never heard he is proposing cuts to Medicare.

Cowboy poets was something someone else mentioned.  Ryan's proposal could be taken slightly more serious if it actually reduced debt rather then create it.

In fact I never mentioned the Ryan Plan or Ryan.  I was talking about rank and file Tea Party members and the platitudes they swallow.  Why you assumed I was talking about Ryan really did perplex me. 

http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/weigel/2011/04/19/poll_70_percent_of_tea_party_supporters_oppose_medicare_cuts.html

And it appears that Most Tea Party types don't like Medicare cuts either.

According to this:

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1892/tea-party-republicans-divide-cuts-federal-spending

The only places where a majority of Tea Party types favor cutting are Foreign Aid, Unemployment benefits, Environmental protection, and Healthcare.  I suspect the last two have to do with crazy conspiracy theories (Climate change is a Hoax! Obamacare Deathpanels!), more then anything else.  The first two don't make up the the Majority of the Tea Party (foreigners and the unemployed), I suspect.  I was surprised that "Aid to US needy" didn't have majority.  Times are tough all over, I suppose. I found an older poll for conservatives where they approved the cutting of "Welfare", but would not cut when asked about specific programs.  It was from 2008, so it didn't seem that important.