GOP: We’ve been lying all along Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his party's ulterior, program-cutting motives
I never thought I’d write these words, but here goes: Thank you, John Boehner. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for finally admitting on national television that all the fiscal cliffs, sequestrations and budget battles you’ve created are, indeed, artificially fabricated by ideologues and self-interested politicians and not the result of some imminent crisis that’s out of our control.
America owes this debt of gratitude to Boehner after he finally came clean on yesterday’s edition of ABC’s “This Week” and admitted that “we do not have an immediate debt crisis.” (His admission was followed up by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who quickly echoed much the same sentiment on CBS’ “Face the Nation”).
In offering up such a stunningly honest admission, the GOP leader has put himself on record as agreeing with President Obama, who has previously acknowledged that demonstrable reality. But the big news here isn’t just about the politics of a Republican House speaker tacitly admitting they agree with a Democratic president. It is also about a bigger admission revealing the fact that the GOP’s fiscal alarmism is not merely some natural reaction to reality, but a calculated means to other ideological ends.
Thanks to yesterday’s declarations by Boehner and Ryan, the charade’s most sacred lie has been exposed. In acknowledging that “we do not have an immediate debt crisis,” GOP leaders are admitting that there is, in fact, an alternative. They are also admitting that their longtime claims to the contrary were ends-justify-the-means tactics to manufacture an unnecessary panic — one that they hoped would scare America into abruptly accepting the kind of draconian policies polls show the public opposes.
Now that the truth is out, maybe a more reasoned debate can begin and more pragmatic policies can finally take center stage.
Gee, imagine my surprise.... An admission, on national TV, that the hopping from one manufactured-crisis to the next manufactured-crisis is a total charade... Well, I'm SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED...
David Sirota also made it clear that he has an inexplicable inability to carry on an argument, and got fired from, what was it? (KHOW?). Don't remember, and it doesn't matter. The guy is a quack, and likes to make assumptions on a bigger picture and call it all fact. The quotes are fact, but not all the sh** trimmings he put on there. Oh yea, and I travel the news A LOT, and I've never heard of a news source called SALON. I'd give Huffington Post more credit over them, if I was an amoeba.
Edit: And although I think it's regrettable that Boehner or Ryan would implicate their party for anything when it's painfully obvious that there's plenty of blame to lay on the left, my opinion is at least they have the balls to do it. Obama and his three ring circus have FU**** up everything they've touched, with the exception of a few misnomers, and they won't admit a damn thing. I hope this admission will help the Repubs, although I'll be hard pressed to vote for any of them the next go around. I sure as hell won't be voting Democrat in the foreseable future though, that's fer sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah... "Obama did it too..." (Let me introduce you to Fred...)
Today's GOTP...Hopping from one manufactured crises to the next, because they don't have any ideas other than obstruction...And they RAN ON THEIR IDEAS last year...and lost.
