Not only did the Boehner/Obama/Reid/McConnell Secretly-Negotiated-Deal-To-Save-The-Country-From-Fiscal-Ruin, you know, save the country from fiscal ruin, but it also showed us all how serious, sober, realist establishment pragmatism works — that, when necessary, it is good and moral and righteous to break a pledge or promise, because if you are chained to your principles, you might not be able to do the hard work of preventing a catastrophic default!
Remember that when every new bit of deficit spending the political class wishes to grant itself carries with it the tag of “emergency” legislation in order that it may get around these newest pesky pledges on spending it will soon be deemed good and moral and righteous to break.
Primary fodder. By their votes shall ye know them, and (hopefully) cast them out.
Man, does EmpLamDukO sound bored or what?
you might not be able to do the hard work of preventing a catastrophic default
Predicated, of course, on the notion that there’s no actual, concrete way to prevent economic catastrophe. The act of cobbling together legislation that everyone calls “compromise” is sufficient to fix things, regardless of what’s in the bill.
Isn’t it amazing how they were able to hammer out a deal at the 11th hour? By ‘amazing’ I of course mean ‘entirely predictable’. Kabuki theater – the only thing real is the will to power.
LTC John, isn’t Joe Walsh your congresscritter too?
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