Rush Limbaugh today read news excerpts from 1967 and 1979 in which the Treasury Secretaries for LBJ and Jimmy Carter, in arguing for a raise in the debt ceiling, warned that Social Security checks, military benefits, payments to civil servants, etc., would be cut should Congress not act.
Exactly like today. The names and numbers have changed, but the playbook is precisely the same.
We’re being held hostage by a ruling class who orchestrates crises to get what it wants. This time, however, it’s different. We really are on the brink. And if the GOP doesn’t hold firm, we’re through.
It’s as simple as that.
The TEA Party members of the House should contact Limbaugh and borrow his research, then begin reading it to everyone who will listen. They should ask the Democrat’s progressive media why it continues to report threats of default without noting the many other times such threats have been made, by whatever the political party — always in the same way, and always without the veracity of the assertions being challenged by a lazy press corps.
We’re being played. We’re being manipulated, be it by polls meant to shape public opinion rather than reflect it, or by statist politicians who never met a crisis they couldn’t exploit. And Senate GOP members are willing to go along with it, because they, too, benefit, as part of the ruling class. That is, they are willing to “compromise” with a party and a President that have offered no plan to compromise with — meaning that they are willing to compromise their own supposed principles and receive nothing in turn but the plaudits of a liberal press.
And this is the Party that wants my vote?
Right.
April 27, 2010 Obama calls for Commission on nation debt and deficit which produces a result in Dec. 2010 Obama chooses to ultimately ignore, wasting the people’s taxfunds and the Commissioner’s time.
chin ho kelly in 2012!
The White House also indicated Obama would be willing to sign a short-term debt limit increase*
bumble has a boisterously rapey rapey hard-on for this gang of 6 thing don’t he
the second line was not supposed to be italicky
at the very least Team R needs to make bumble beg beg beg for a short term debt limit increase
beg like the whorish little piggy he is
this lil piggy went to market
this lil piggy stayed home
this lil piggy had roast beef
this little piggy had none
this lil piggy took drugs and went to a pink floyd concert
wee wee wee/ all the way home
Thank goodness for the establishment GOP! When the Dems propose to bend us over and pound us up the ass, we can count on the Establicans to reach a compromise whereby the Dems wear a rubber and only stick it in halfway. Plus, they promise they’ll totally call us in a few days and treat us to a nice dinner and a show.
Thanks, guys! I’m just sure it’ll be so much better this time!
Rush is Right.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/20/msnbc_to_gop_congressman_do_you_have_a_degree_in_economics.html
Today, Contessa “educated” a conservative Representative that without the bailout, the country would be in “a depression.” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said he disagreed which prompted the MSNBC host to ask him if he had a degree in economics.
“Yes ma’am, I do. Highest honors,” Rep. Brooks responded.
According to his Congressional page: “Mo graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics. In 1978, he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School.”
We need a bit more of Republicans calling bullshit on bullshit, especially with the media trying to buffalo us.
We need people who aren’t afraid to follow their calm smack-downs with enough calm abuse to send Contessa into a crying jag.
You need to be credentialed to argue against progressive opinions. If you’re arguing for them, you don’t need any at all.
Science!
If you argue against proggy opinions your credentials will be pulled forthwith. But yeah, you need to have ’em before they can pull ’em.
Those kinds of idiots really piss me off. You don’t need a degree in a subject to know it. In fact, a degree in a subject means you passed some minimum knowledge requirements, and even then, knowledge on a subject does not mean you actually understand it. If you memorize a bunch of crap, but can’t take that information an apply it in different ways, you have not learned anything.
Anyone could study a subject on his own and learn more than someone who has a degree in the field who stopped learning once they had the degree.
OT:
“Bachmann Releases Letter from Physician Addressing Migraines”
I take it geoff, that this means a President Bachmann won’t be turning Iran into the Sea of Glass just because the Midol has run out?
Too bad really.
It also means that she had some Democrat moles among her former staff.
I’m pretty sure Bachmann is past the Midol years.
Duh. It’s not called The People’s Republic of Minnesota for nothing.
If I were in Congress, I’d assume half of the committee staff I had to deal with and about a quarter of my office staffers were “unreliable.”
I don’t even know the mini-kerfuffle’s about. Literally. (But I can guess). And anyways, I don’t see that it’s a big deal. I mean, JFK’s personal Dr. Feelgood kept him half-looped, didn’t he?
This piece Ernst.
Thanks for the link geoff.
And don’t assume the leaker is necessarily a Democrat. Could be a Pawlenty supporter. Plenty of T. Coddington Van Vorhees types in Minnesota too.
I think it has little to do with DFL or GOP. I think it’s mostly to do with a little fish who’d like a bigger pond. This worm probably sucked up to Michele and her people to get a job in the first place. No reason why he wouldn’t suck up to reporters in an effort to climb up.
My hope is that this episode causes our hardworking, fair and balanced press to investigate the medical issues of every other candidate out there. I heard from a trusted source that Obama is already showing signs of lung cancer…
You are all simply under the influence and not accountable for your actions. I’m sure the Democrats will find a solution to this problem.
More flags for everyone, everywhere!
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…
1. How can it be that there is not a single big fat Social Security fund that is untouchable except for the purpose it was created?
2. How can any sane person assert that the way to get out of debt is by getting into more debt?
It’s time to get a grip.