Dangerous dealings with the Default Caucus

[Horse with no Name]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dangerous-dealings-with-the-default-caucus/2011/07/21/gIQAktWMTI_print.html
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This possibility cannot be dismissed. So far, the Default Caucus is disregarding the advice of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, warnings from Standard & Poor’s, the record of Ronald Reagan and even the permission of Grover Norquist, the conservative loyalty enforcer who said that ending the Bush-era tax cuts would not violate lawmakers’ anti-tax pledges.

The Default Caucus has dismissed all compromises. Obama and Boehner’s “Grand Bargain”? The “Gang of Six” proposal? Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s plan? No, nay, never. Even Tom Coburn’s plan to shave deficits by $9 trillion was disparaged as a “$1 trillion tax hike.”

“You have a lot of members who don’t like the idea of a compromise,” CBS News’s Nancy Cordes pointed out to Boehner at his weekly news conference, “or who don’t even want to raise the debt ceiling. Have you told them that any deal is going to have to involve some compromise?”

“I have,” the speaker said.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. You know these people will not get it even

After the disaster they create is in full swing. I hope the voters do though and send these people packing.

[DJ13]

2. The debt ceiling 'crisis' is perfectly manufactured bullshit

People want jobs, are screaming for the government to do something about jobs, so what does the government do in response?

They ignore the jobs issue and create a phony crisis that not only distracts from the cries for jobs, it is the perfect vehicle to slash funding for the very social programs that alleviate some of the pain from not having jobs.

Alfred Hitchcock couldnt have planned such a sadistic twist.