Anybody else notice that the rhetoric of the hostage-takers has kinda slopped over into the stoopid? (I mean more than the usual stoopid)
Repubs say they won't vote to raise the debt ceiling unless the Dems agree to a list of demands. This of course scares the fuck outa lotsa o' people who're supposed to know about such things because either the debt ceiling goes up or the US government can't pay everything it owes; and if we don't pay our bills, then others can't pay theirs, and "the markets" get the willies, and the cascade effect makes things real bad real fast.
So the imagery of the TeaBaggers holding a knife to throat of the world economy seems pretty valid. Except now, we've got guys like Tom Coburn denying the terribleness of what happens if we don't raise the debt ceiling - he says it'll be OK; no big deal.
But that doesn't sound quite right; denying the dire consequences if your demands aren't met - "Gimme what I want or the hostage will probably be OK"(?)
Is this some kind of weird double flip? Maybe Coburn's denial is aimed at the crazies and not at the rest of us. Maybe he's trying to talk 'em down(?)
One last frightening tho't - what if it turns out that Tom Coburn is now what passes for a reasonable Republican?
We are so fucked.
Repubs say they won't vote to raise the debt ceiling unless the Dems agree to a list of demands. This of course scares the fuck outa lotsa o' people who're supposed to know about such things because either the debt ceiling goes up or the US government can't pay everything it owes; and if we don't pay our bills, then others can't pay theirs, and "the markets" get the willies, and the cascade effect makes things real bad real fast.
So the imagery of the TeaBaggers holding a knife to throat of the world economy seems pretty valid. Except now, we've got guys like Tom Coburn denying the terribleness of what happens if we don't raise the debt ceiling - he says it'll be OK; no big deal.
But that doesn't sound quite right; denying the dire consequences if your demands aren't met - "Gimme what I want or the hostage will probably be OK"(?)
Is this some kind of weird double flip? Maybe Coburn's denial is aimed at the crazies and not at the rest of us. Maybe he's trying to talk 'em down(?)
One last frightening tho't - what if it turns out that Tom Coburn is now what passes for a reasonable Republican?
We are so fucked.
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