Things like this are why I worry about the debt ceiling
Look what the GOP in Indiana is doing. I swear the entire party has gone batshit insane. And Rick Scott down in Florida is about the same. This willingness to do serious damage to the common weal simply to “prove” some ideological point is worrisome. I think many of the GOP are willing—as indeed they say that they are—to let the US default. They think it will somehow “teach us a lesson.”
They do not believe in government, of course they want it to fail. George Bush was not this crazy. Nor Reagan, nor Nixon. It’s the unfettered influence of wealth on politics, coupled with a shabby, sensationalistic corporate media that’s brought us here. Inevitably politics is taken over by entities that do not, literally cannot, care about the state of the nation.
/rant
scott
2 June 2011 at 7:26 pm
How many times did our GOP friends raise the debt ceiling with no budget cut demands when George W was President? Don’t know the answer? The answer is 7. GOP raised Debt Ceiling 7 times under W and didn’t once demand spending cuts.
Jody
3 June 2011 at 7:34 am
Their stupidity is immune to human methods!
– Logic doesn’t move conservatives.
– Facts don’t convince them.
– History is “gay” to them, as is science.
– Recent history, i.e., the Bush II and Reagan years are mythologized rather than remembered accurately.
– Even voting them out of office doesn’t convince them.
It just makes them want to double-down on tax cuts for the rich and increasing the military budget. The movie “Idiocracy” is more accurate than its comedy belies.
zaine_ridling
6 June 2011 at 7:17 am