Posted on 10/15/2013 2:27:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
This year's contrived budget crisis is headed to its climax, as the date for defaulting on the nation's debt approaches.
Washington's budget debates are dizzying and incomprehensible. But at stake is what kind of country we will have. House Republican Tea Party zealots, backed by well-funded right-wing lobbies, continue to manufacture budget crises. They want to alarm Americans into accepting cuts in basic security — in food stamps, and home heating, in Social Security or Medicare benefits — that would otherwise be utterly unacceptable.
Lost in the uproar is any reasoned discussion of the real strategies we need to make this economy work for working people. It is vital that the president and the Democrats in Congress end this macabre dance and make it clear to people just what the stakes actually are. The measure of any compromise deal is whether it will crush the hostage-takers.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I would think that anyone who has an IQ over 15 would be able to see that the POTUS refusing 5 or 6 deals to compromise on the shutdown, plus slimy Harry Reid saying “Not gonna happen” would allow even the most drooling of imbeciles to recognize that it is the Democrat's fault for the shutdown.
Besides, none of this would be happening if the Leftists had listened to the adults when we said this is a bad idea back before it became a miscarriage of law.
If you're ignorant or stupid. OK, it could be both.
I wonder if he bought himself something nice with the $15 that the Dems paid him to hold that sign.
Regular people wanting cost efficient and effective government are extremists now.
Good find. Now, these “men” look like the real thing - teabaggers in the flesh.
Hey look at the libtard holding the sign!
I AM SPARTACUS.
The Jew-hating commie scum at Reuters are butting their Nazi heads into our affairs. I suggest they leave now before we do a Yorktown on their bed-wetting leftist *sses.
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