I'm recalling a minivan ad of about 20 years ago (a once-over with Google fails to conjure it up) where the various family members are in a conference room, each with a lawyer, hashing out the features they are holding out for. Just when they think they have settled everything, a black lawyer designed to invoke Johnnie Cochran from the OJ trial comes in.
"Aren't we forgetting some-one?"
Pan to four-month-old in a baby-carrier.
Mom- "Timmy?"
Cochran clone-"Yee-eeessss."
Timmy doesn't have a seat at the table in Washington right now. We've just gotten done passing a tax-cut late last year, and the manic hunk of charcuterie that came out of the Senate gives extra cash to both the Pentagon and domestic programs. Everyone seems to have gotten something, except Timmy, standing in as the future taxpayers who will get stuck with the tab for all this largess.
Instead of Cochran, we have a tag team of the Freedom Caucus and various liberals, with the former going to bat for Tiny Taxpayer Tim and the latter going to bat for his "Dreamer" analogue (Timoteito if I try and cram that through), since that corner wants a DACA vote as the price for passage.
Classic "both ends against the middle" dynamic. There isn't much of a middle left, it seems, nor is there much in the way of long-term planning; running deficits is the easy way out, since future taxpayers aren't voting yet.
One old saw has tradition giving the dead a vote. Planning for the future gives kids and the unborn a vote.
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