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Exactly. If the GOP intends to do business as usual, it makes people wonder what they voted for in November. If we’re going to raise the debt limit, attach the repeal of Obamacare and reducing spending to it. Then force the Democrats to choose between downsizing government or voting for it to default on its fiscal obligations.
I’d be surprised if the Stupid Party stops caving into the Democrats.
And the nation defaults on its debts, plunging the world economy into fiscal meltdown and ending the long reign of the US Dollar as global reserve currency. Not sure who will survive to sweep up the ashes, but it certainly won't be the United States of America.
Mr. Farah, Speaker Boehner has the burden of actual leadership.
You can’t get a Democrat to cut spending. Once they start doing that, there’s no reason to reelect them. So if Boehner and the Pubbies vote against a raising of the debt ceiling and we default on our debt, there wil be hell to pay and the Pubbies will pay it. The Dems will make sure of it.
When have they ever held the line recently on any important fiscal matter?
If he raises the debt ceiling he will be removed.
Even Sen Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling.
Now why would that not surprise me?
This article is written by a fool who is pimping his own personal group “No More Red Ink”. At no point does he explain how we are to simply not raise the debt ceiling.
It has taken 2 years to get to this point. You cannot just shut this off overnight. I did not read in Farah’s piece where he explains how the GOP can possibly do this without collapsing the economy. They haven’t even had the opportunity to create a budget this year yet.
I am curious why there is so much animosity toward the GOP House and Senate when they are doing everything they promised so far. They even got an Obamacare vote in the Senate. Issa is investigating. The ceiling is going to have to be raised before the GOP will have time to start cutting.
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They should raise it long enough to last one month with a huge concession attached like the the repeal of Obama care. Then they should repeat again on a monthly basis. Not give two freaking more years!
Rhetorical question.
Did you NOT expect him to blow it?
Those responsible for spending are just like the welfare Moms who know that having a baby gives them more security. They’ve run up the debt and now tell us how powerless they are to stop continuing the binge.
The current pattern of spending, borrowing, raising the limit and repeating as necessary cannot continue. Period. It’s going to end in a crash.
Refusal to raise the debt limit will also end in a crash. So what’s the difference? IMHO, I’d prefer to have a crash that we caused and knew was coming rather than to wake up one morning to global financial crisis and panic. It’s like knowing the plane you’re flying is running out of fuel and you know you will have put it someplace. Far better to fly into the landing while you have some control than just fly along until the engine quits and you have no longer have a say in where and how you land.
Having said all this, let me predict what will happen. They will continue to kick the ball down the road until the crash happens. Spending will not be cut enough to ease or eliminate the deficit, and the debt ceiling will be raised again and again. There will be much talk and bluster, but when it’s all said and done they will revert to their old habits. They are addicted and that’s the nature of addicts.
It’s that bad dream again. Everything in slow motion with an outcome you know but can’t change.
Boehner is the one who told us that the stimulus was a “crap sandwich we’re gonna have to eat.”
I think we should NOT raise the debt ceiling.
And when asked why, the answer should be simple.
The Debt Ceiling is the legislative determination of how much money we can AFFORD to owe. It has no meaning if you just change it whenever you need more money. Last year, our “esteemed” Democratic colleagues, in what we presume was a serious and thoughtful manner, determined how much money we could afford to owe, and SET the debt limit to that amount.
We are not prepared at this time to second-guess their determination on this matter. You should ask Nancy Pelosi why, if she thinks a higher debt limit is the appropriate one, she didn’t set it to that value last year. Certainly we are not better able to handle debt this year than we were last year.