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Monday, October 07, 2013

Acting Outside Of Their Interests

After signaling privately that the debt ceiling would be raised, John Boehner and other GOP leaders are now in full pivot mode, stating that they won't do it. They are also stating (stand by for the moonbattery) that the US won't default on October 17th, the deadline to raise the nation's borrowing limit. It could be the usual bloviating but I think it's something more. I think they are actually going to do it. They simply hate the federal government that much.

When this happens, the ensuing fallout will result in the loss of the House in 2014. And it won't be simply because they caused a default. It will be because President Obama, forced into action due to the conservative temper tantrum on steroids, will be seen as a shining knight who saved the nation from economic ruin through some sort of budget or constitutional maneuver. It will be the final tipping point the Democrats need to take back the House.

Further, he will have made the executive branch stronger as a result. Future presidents will be able to wield spending power with greater ease and Congress will be left marginalized and severely weakened. Thus, playing chicken with the debt ceiling is going to end up being a gross miscalculation on the part of the GOP and completely outside of their interests. They are going to bring about the very thing they claim to be fighting against: increased authoritarian power in the executive branch.

That adolescent stomp down the hallway is about to get more dramatic and a whole lot louder. 

4 comments:

GuardDuck said...

the conservative temper tantrum on steroids


Willing to talk about and fund the majority of gov't budgets? Repub's.

Throwing a if I can't get everything I want, nobody gets anything temper tantrum? Dem's.


Get your blame straight.


Future presidents will be able to wield spending power with greater ease and Congress will be left marginalized and severely weakened.

Really? That's something you want? Even when someone you detest more than Sarah Palin is in office - wielding all that power that you would willingly give in direct contradiction to this country's most cherished principle's? And you are a fucking social studies teacher? Where did you get your freaking teaching cert? Karl Marx U?

Anonymous said...

As if shutting down the Amber Alert website and closing open air memorials (that were never shut down before) isn't the height of childishness. Face it Mark, you don't have the faintest clue what truth is.

Anonymous said...

Face it Mark, you don't have the faintest clue what truth is.

Ha! Nor does he care since it has been brought to his attention over and over yet he spouts the same lies and ignorant rants. As if they are going to be true if he says them enough. Dolt.

Juris Imprudent said...

You do have to sort of admire how he's given up defending his positions in comments. I have to say that I like not having to scrape the stupid off my screen.