Amazing how much spending, debt, and socialism we’re getting out of the Republicans, in the name of “pragmatism.”
Fact is, though, it only seems “pragmatic.” What it actually is is selfish and shortsighted. And it never ends up working out in the real world.
Over the short run, being principled is hard. But over the long haul it is eminently practical. It works.
It is still true that you reap what you sow. Always has been, always will be.
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The failure in your analysis is that, as I said before, the GOP would have been blamed for the 15 million federal layoffs, market crash, etc. that would have been the result of a flat out refusal to increase the debt ceiling.
Think people want government employees laid off? They do until they see that UE number go up, and that many more people competing for the jobs that are out there.
The GOP would be blamed, Obama re-elected, and the Dems granted the House back, and all they’d do is just undo it all anyway, and increase the debt limit, but this time, with 12.1% unemployment and a Dow of 5500 instead of a Dow of 11k and 9.5% UE or whatever. You have to consider that you need time to achieve anything, even on a fast-track of so-called principles that you advocate.