Doug Ross has the details.
Gallingly, a President who insists that a deal on the debt ceiling must happen before Aug 2 or the country face economic catastrophe has today refused to sign a short term deal that would, if his initial assertion about the drop dead date is to be believed, forestall economic catastrophe.
And yet he’s accusing those who passed a budget AND a plan to raise the debt ceiling — while avoiding credit downgrades — of “playing politics,” while exempting himself and the Democrats, who haven’t offered a plan, haven’t offered a budget, and won’t even let the Senate vote on the one piece of legislative compromise the could end the economic uncertainty?
Tell me: without a compliant mainstream media spinning the story as a battle between a principled President looking for a “balanced” deal, and the evil Republicans (in a sop to their extremist TEA Party fringe) holding the country hostage over tax breaks for yacht and private jet owners, would not the majority of Americans not be out in the streets today, threatening to riot should their elected leaders not do what it is they are demanding be done?
Our media is a joke, frankly. Which wouldn’t much matter were they not actively complicit in our economic slavery and financial ruin.
Of course:
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Hey, we’re makin’ progress! No one has called me a racist in days. The Media have gone from getting tingly legs and swooning over Teh Won’s pants crease to mostly sullen silence, and those not smart enough to STFU are working hard to add further discredit to the Media’s already heavy load. Granted I’m still investing heavily in cat food futures….
The fact that he can say ridiculous shit like this out loud and in public without any fear of receiving the ridicule it begs is exactly what is wrong with this party.
Say want you want about Wasserman Schulz and all the other Democrat attack dogs, at least they fucking have them.
Obama, Reid, Pelosi are either economic idiots, which I don’t believe for a minute, or are systematically going about a plan to crash the entire financial system of the US and the world for their own reasons. Reasons which may not be based in any logical, fiscal, reality that we see. By their actions you shall know their objectives clearly. Cloward-Piven comes to Wall Street and the world’s financial system.
Cloward-Piven, geoffb.
They mean to crash it. I expect it to happen. I’m ready for it and I’d like to get started.
C-P indeed, that is.
See, here’s the thing about the media. When you have to scrounge or wait in line for food to feed your family, when there’s nobody picking up the trash, when there is no job to go to, and Uncle Sugar ain’t doing a goddamn thing for your aging mother, Brain Williams can blow all the smoke he wants and it’s just never going up your ass.
When gas hits $6 a gallon, MSNBC might as well turn the lights off.
A crashed economy favors those who can credibly say, “We’ll save you,” not those who say, “Hey, now we can save ourselves.”
Though I’d suspect that folks of each persuasion are already geographically segregated, more or less, and that might result in two systems coming into existence, with one eventually hoping to conquer the other.
Yeah, can’t wait for that.
I do believe that Harry Reid is sociopathic.
One ray of hope is that only a very few on the left are in it for the ideology. Most are in it for the money and prestige. Both of which will crash too. This may act as a brake if they see what in happening in time.
One of Insty’s readers starts to wonder if the Dems are actually insane:
I suppose that’s progress, but he hasn’t twigged to the possibility that their ultimate goal IS collapse and that they are very much in touch with reality, just not the reality they’ve been pretending to believe in.
And that their intractability has nothing to do with any ideology beyond “The power is within our grasp; can’t you taste it?”
Most are in it for the money and prestige.
See my last: they’re the ones who are most likely to press on, because a collapsed economy provides the optimal opportunity to acquire more power, i.e., money and prestige.
No, the ideologues who think that what they’re doing is actually good for the economy are those who will become disillusioned. But that will happen too late, and they’ll be too undone to be of any use.
Has one single person like Boehner or Cantor or Sessions or anyone noted how e Dems voted in 2006,’specifically, the stirring oratory of TOTUS?
The problem is that almost all Democrats are now thoroughly Socialist. Not even kind of Socialist but fully socialist. When Obama says he believes in “Economic Freedoms” aren’t accounted for in the constitution, that is exactly what he means. He believes he is doing something wonderful by raising our debt to such heights and allocating this debt to his projects. Because he believes what he is doing is right. What he doesn’t understand, which is what no Socialist understands, is that what he is doing is actually very evil and it pretends that the pets that are receiving the booty are somehow above sloth and greed because they are part of the same “belief”.
I have always known that even when a Socialist destroys his entire system, the only thing he can think is that it was destroyed because there wasn’t enough Socialism. Much like a person who believes that prayer can save them from cancer – when they take their last breath they might think it’s because someone didn’t pray enough. Of course I am probably preaching to the choir here so….
teary orange man gets tough
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Thing is, that collapsed economy also offers an excellent opportunity to get shot in the head for being useless and full of shit.
They really should. He was passionate. He identified the problem and refused to feed it. It may have been the best speech EVAH! It’s a shame that it’s become so inconvenient for them.
Maybe e MFM will note it, Pablo. maybe even quote from it. Or quote from where he admitted he was playing partisan political games.
I know, I know ….
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.
Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.
Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.
And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.
Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.
Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006
Now this is how you go in the tank you bunch of amateurs: Right Wing Extremist Charged in Norway. Oh wait, too much you think? One hour later that’s been memory-holed, now we’re going with Christian Extremist Charged in Norway.
~The NY Times.
All the news that’s fit to printFuck you.We are screwed.
There are too many ignorant and illiterate people in this country. Thank God my time is limited. I never thought that being mortal applied to me, but now I am happy about it. What comes next is something I do not wish to see, or be a part of. We are at the tipping point where dead people, “All-Timers” patients (yes, O! said that), and illegal immigrants will put this fucking foreign-born piece of shit over the top. This country may not even survive until the next election, and will certainly die a painful death if this arrogant piece of shit is re-elected.
I feel sorry for my son, though. I love him more than anything on this Earth, but, as scarilly(?) smart as he is, he has no idea what is barreling down the road at his propagandized little ass…
More Tea Party talk from Hewitt