The GOP cookie cutter politicians (helmet hair, fake tans, pretending, unsuccessfully, that they look like regular people) unveiled their "Pledge to America" today.

Boehner and his buds were standing knee deep in the cow pies they were shoveling while their Pinocchio noses kept growing as they (swindlers) addressed the voters (their marks).

R. J. Eskow at Campaign for America's Future writes:  "Once you strip away the rhetoric, the answer is simple: Off the top, their plan is a trillion-dollar giveaway to the rich - at everybody else's expense. Their "pledge" would slash needed spending, kill jobs and end any hope of growing the economy. It declares open season on the public's health and safety with a deregulation agenda that would unleash BP, Goldman Sachs, and every other corporation whose risky behavior endangers us. It would lead to even more financial crashes and environmental disasters. Firefighters, cops,and teachers would be laid off in droves. The deficit would soar. We'd face a permanently stagnating economy. The middle class would wither away.

"That's the future they're offering. It's Bush on steroids, fattened up and ready to feast on ... you. If you like today's economy, you'll love the one these guys are cooking up.

"If this document wasn't written by lobbyists then it was certainly submitted for their review and approval. And there's a lot for them to love...."

[The director of this GOP scam is a former lobbyist "for some of the nation's most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies.]

"Here's the bottom line: They'll raid your money to make their rich patrons even richer. The middle class will continue to wither away, and those manage to hold on will be worse off than ever. More and more people will slip into permanent unemployment, poverty, and penurious old age. More roads will crumble. More aging pipelines will explode in towns like San Bruno, Calif. This "pledge" is the oldest kind of promise in the world: the promise than con men make to their victims.

"Remember, the Republicans made a lot of promises the last time they took control of the Congress. They promised to create more jobs, and their policies led to record unemployment. They promised to limit their own terms, then settled in for a long comfy stay in Washington. They promised that businesses would regulate themselves, and both the Gulf Coast and the Main Street economy were ruined.

"It brings to mind the words of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce: "' They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one: they promised to take our land and they took it.'  Substitute "our wallets" for "our land," and that's what we'll get with the Pledge to America. What they're really promising is this: No jobs, health care, no security, no future."

Unfortunately, some voters will fall for it since these GOP right wing nuts can fool most of their Republican base all of the time.

But the saddest commentary is that members of the Democratic leadership in Congress, with their permanent minority mind set, are afraid of these jerks, mainly because that leadership is DINO, not true Democrats.