We did figure out how to raise more funds and spend less, during the Clinton administration. But under the Bush administration, that sort of fiscal prudence was apparently considered less important than tax cuts for the rich and extremely expensive military undertakings, as you can see from the following graph:
There is no actual debt “crisis”. There are just a lot of powerful and extremely wealthy conservatives addicted to unrealistically low top marginal tax rates, as well as a lot of neoconservatives addicted to military adventurism, and a lot of ordinary conservatives swallowing the bullshit they dish out. They are the primary cause of those massive splashes of orange and red in that graph.
OK, now I understand your mistake. We’re talking about members of the House of Representatives. I’m sure there are many “competent professional politicians” in that august body, but there are any number of yahoos as well.
The problem is that GOP central has cross-talk in its talking points. They didn’t want to concede that the shutdown was their doing.
But the shutdown was their doing, and there are umpteen videos of them threatening to shutdown the government if Obamaramacare wasn’t appealed.
A generation ago, they would not have tried to pull such a stunt. But given today’s bifurcated media environment the Republicans believe they can get away with talking out of both sides of their mouth. Fox News and squack radio don’t care, and they are the ones who affect Republican primaries the most.
The bigger problem they’re having is they’re still in the middle of it and they don’t yet know how it’s going to end. The House Republicans want to somehow position themselves so they can claim all the credit for the shutdown if it succeeds while denying all blame for the shutdown if it fails.
I really don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here. I feel like you’re arguing with somebody else who’s making posts in my name that I can’t see.
Could you explain what the connection is between what I wrote and what you said in response? What do you think my “prejudices” are here?
It worked like a charm in this case, exposing two truths:
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[li]Blackburn is too cowardly and partisan to accept GOP responsibility for the fiasco.[/li][li]Blackburn is too stupid to think of the obvious spin suggested by several others on this thread.[/li][/ol]
God, I can’t stand that woman. It almost makes me want to move to Williamson County so I can vote against her (not that my own representative is that much better).
In the state GOP’s defense, they haven’t had time to work on the unemployment situation. They’re busy making sure that towns and cities in Tennessee can’t take away people’s rights to walk around in public parks with loaded handguns.
