Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had a fairly long harangue on the Senate floor this morning, not only touting House Speaker John Boehner’s (R) budget proposal, but identifying what he considers the “cause” of the current crisis. As McConnell sees it, “the debt crisis” has “brought us to this point.”
“The crisis our nation faces at this moment has a very simple cause: Washington spends a lot more money every year than it takes in. […]
“Right now the president is asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling by more than it’s ever been raised before, even as the nation is teetering on the edge of a crisis caused by debt. Let me repeat: our nation is facing a crisis because of the size of our debt.”
I have no idea if McConnell believes a word of this. It’s possible the Senate Minority Leader just isn’t an intelligent person, who struggles to keep up with current events, and it’s also possible McConnell is playing a cheap game, throwing around false claims and hoping no one knows the difference.
