John Cole has it right. The current crop in Congress is positively evil:
Considering they haven’t created one job since taking office, and haven’t so much as advanced one plan to create jobs since they took office, and, mind you, presided over the worst economic collapse since the Depression, it’s pretty clear the Republicans are very serious about killing the economy:
WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure to increase the government’s debt limit, acting on a vote staged by Republican leaders to pressure President Obama to agree to deep spending cuts.
Republicans brought up the measure, which was defeated 318 to 97, to show the lack of support in the House for raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling without concrete steps to rein in chronic budget deficits.The preordained outcome followed several acts of odd political theater on the House floor: Republicans urged the defeat of their own measure, while Democrats — who not long ago were seeking just such a vote to raise the debt ceiling without attaching spending cuts — assailed Republicans for bringing it up, saying its certain defeat might unnerve the financial markets.
Just in case, Republican leaders scheduled the vote for after the stock market’s close, and in the preceding days called Wall Street executives to assure them that the vote was just for show, to show Mr. Obama that he would have to make concessions in budget negotiations if a debt-limit increase is to pass Congress.
Not sure why the markets care. If shit crashes, they’ll be made whole again by the taxpayers. Just like the last time.Gotta love the 80 or so Democrats who voted with the nihilists.
Who knows-that “Second Amendment solution” stuff may be right after all. If the markets tank because both the GOP and the average voter are certifiably stupid-there are definitely some excellent candidates to be hanging from lamp posts on Constitution Avenue. Starting with every member of the Tea Party Caucus.
You realize the debt ceiling is meaningless? The US is the only country with such a false premise. We did not have it until the last 50 years. All it does is allow for more posturing among the Red and Blue teams. Nothing but fucking gamesmanship. With the economy a mess, all EITHER of them can do is play games and pander in front of the television cameras. Cocksuckers.
It is clear in a fiscal sense that it is dangerous to keep raising the debt ceiling. But at some point refusing [to raise it] has the same consequence as raising it. So to some extend the question is, how do you balance the two? You start with increasing revenue to get to a balanced budget-then you make intelligent cuts. A really smart cut now would be to leave Iraq and Afghanistan-today.
Do that and I will believe you fuckers are serious. Till then, stop fucking with my hard earned savings and investments-just to appease the grifter class of teabaggers.
Now excuse me-I have to go clean some guns and buy some rags and gasoline.