Morgan Griffith, GOP Rep, Compares Default To American Revolution
Source: Huffington Post
Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) compared the looming default to the American Revolution on Saturday after a meeting with House Republicans.
The Hill reports Griffith suggested that even if it resulted in a severely damaging default, the House should reject an unfavorable agreement from the Senate.
We have to make a decision thats right long-term for the United States, and what may be distasteful, unpleasant and not appropriate in the short run may be something that has to be done, Griffith said, according to The Hill. I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/12/default-american-revolution-morgan-griffith_n_4089911.html
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...it makes you wonder when will people realize that Fox News has been making their brain rot such that they think that default is a good thing.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)a civil war, yet. But still you know they have always been trying to even the 1-0 score. Just can't stand being losers. Like the 42 or 43 or 44 to nothing score on the ACA. Must suck being part of the loser crowd.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)is fairly long term.
Zorro
(15,749 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)with predictable result.
amb123
(1,581 posts)that the day the government defaults will be "America's New Independence Day, the day the American People declared their freedom from dependence on government!"
paleotn
(17,989 posts)....seems we're new to this sovereign default = new freedom and ponies for everyone deal. I didn't know the Argentines had it so good. Damn! Why'd we wait so long!? Let's do it!!
paleotn
(17,989 posts)"They created the greatest nation and the best form of government"
Do tell. Griffith and the tea baggers being able to hold entire country hostage over some nutcase, loony toon, political philosophy of theirs kind of disproves that. While our friends and allies with other forms of democratic government scratch their heads and wonder what the hell is wrong with the US.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)dgibby
(9,474 posts)which is why I have no representation. The stupid, it burns.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Guess I went to different history class's! To top it it off I went to school in a county that only had one high school in a southern state.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)andym
(5,445 posts)And their revolution is to destroy the US government. I guess they don't care about the collateral damage to everyone's lives.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)They know nothing, nada, zilch about the American Revolution or U.S. history. These nihilistic knuckleheads are destroying this country.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,274 posts)The clown car must be getting crowded.
JHB
(37,163 posts)Originally we operated under the Articles of Confederation, where the national government was more akin to an overarching UN for the 13 sovereign state governments. Or perhaps the League of Nations is a better analogy, considering how weak and toothless the national government was under the articles.
Had it not been replaced with the more centralized Federal government of the Constitution in 1789, we would have been a collection of petty squabbling, back-biting states and within a generation we would have been pried apart by European powers playing one group against the others.
weissmam
(905 posts)how about making him personally responsible for everyone's loses
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)I guess I'm underestimating them. Geez!!!
Volaris
(10,274 posts)if the Govt. defaults on it's debts, the first month that SocSec don't go get mailed, people will start setting government buildings on fire. These people will ABSOLUTELY get the "revolution" they have been fucking pining for.
Skittles
(153,211 posts)hard to believe anyone could be THAT ignorant
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Idiot.
MarchemintotheSea
(50 posts)Mr Morgan is one of the best and brightest the state of Virginia has to offer.
Sure his is a stupid fuck, but just think how stupid the people are who sent him to DC are?
carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)THINK about a congressional district's history before hating on all its residents.
The CCC
(463 posts)What an idiot. The American Revolutionary War was fought under the Articles of Confederation. It was the US Constitution that gave us our present form of government. The one these TREASONOUS Republican IDIOTS want to destroy.