Even the freepers know the Republican Senators are doomed after blocking the student loan bill [View all]

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See my LBN thread for context: "Senate Republicans Block Bill on Student Loan Rates"

I noticed that Freepers aren't really cheering, starting with reply #3:

While I tend to agree with the Republicans on this one, but to even be allowed to be perceived as blocking this will be one of the most politically ‘tone deaf’ things I’ve ever seen. We’re talking political suicide in an election year. Not very smart to say the least.

This will be demagogue’d 24/7 by the media, and it will piss off the middle class parents of kids that are in college. The votes of the political zombie college kids are a lost cause, but when you get their parents to voting with them because of something like this, you’re just asking for it.

The dems will be up to bat, and the R’s will be throwing them a hanging curve ball, right down the middle.

7:

Where they REALLY screw up is when they initially talk tough, and then cave in/change their mind. Then it’s a loser on both sides. They’ll catch hell for opposition, get scared at the sight of poll numbers, then cave in, looking week and inept. If they stake out an opposing position on this(politically sound or not), they are best to stick to their guns, and only have 60% of the electorate mad, rather than 100%.

8:

Republican plan of action

Huff
Puff
Cry
Cave

15 (funniest of all):

To block it would be a very bad move on an election year. The GOP is a fat cat who likes firing people (quoted), and they want to raise interest on student loans?

Are they trying to drive people to the socialists?

It's already happened in France...

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And, why exactly, when mortgage rates, rates paid on savings accounts, and a lot of dollar denominated bond yields are at record lows, should the rate charged on student loans double?

We can debate the propriety and utility of the Federal Student Loan program (we'd probably be better off not encouraging everyone to go to university and giving scholarships to those who really ought to be going, provided they major in some traditional discipline, not (Grievance-group) Studies), but until major structural reforms which will not take place until there is at least GOP, or better conservative, control of both Congress and the White House take place, raising student loan interest rates is functionally equivalent to a tax increase on the young, and will produce a corresponding drag on the economy.