"Now, in a sane and functioning American republic,
this budget would be more than political suicide. It would be the
political equivalent of doing a Rasputin to yourself.
"I
mean, leaching funds from Medicare? Cutting the CDC in the middle of a
pandemic? Cutting the EPA by a full quarter of its present budget? A ballooning deficit? There's something in there to enrage everyone from Bernie Sanders to Simpson and Bowles.
However, on the morning that the president* dropped this dead fish on
his own foot, people were lined up in the chill rain to attend his rally
tonight, at which he will lie barefaced about everything in that
budget. And they will eat up the lies in buckets because this is not a
sane and functioning American republic any more. It is a huge terrarium
containing every species of angry rube." -- Charles P. Pierce, on the revealing budget proposal of sociopathic narcissist Donald "Impeached Forever" Trump and the likely reaction of the Red Hat Cult.
