slamlander | One of the best lines I have read in a long while … (Reply)

If congressional negotiators fail to resolve their impasse over the federal debt ceiling, we may recall this moment in history as one of the nation’s worst since the morning Custer awoke thinking it might be amusing to go and annoy Sitting Bull.

It came from an article in in the LA Times by Tim Rutten, “They drank the tea.”

The highlighting statement is;

Boehner said that "allowing America to default would be irresponsible" but that failure to "reform the budget process" would be worse.

Which wasn’t good enough for the Tea Partiers

The Rev. William Temple, chairman of the tea party’s Founding Fathers, who appeared — as apparently is his custom — in a tri-cornered hat and full Colonial-era regalia, sneered at Boehner as "a wimpy RINO," (Republican In Name Only) and derided him as "our tearful House speaker." Temple said the tea party would give lawmakers "something to really cry about in 2012" by turning the debt ceiling vote into a litmus test: "If you vote to raise the debt ceiling, you get a ’0′ for the year from the tea party. If you don’t vote to raise the debt ceiling, you get a ’100′ and you’re a hero."

Number one, as a lifelong Republican, I am getting seriously tired of that RINO label. The Tea Party started off with decent agendas but have since been high-jacked by the Palinistas. They are now further right than John Birch and their core contains the radical Religious Right. They somehow do not know the difference between political conservative, religious conservative, and social conservative¹ . But then, what can you expect from a bunch who supports a bitch² that is too ignorant to know her American history and admit it when she is proven wrong.

However, all the grandstanding aside, if the US defaults then the credit rating is reduced and interest rates go up by a factor of 5, at the least. I disagree with Boehner; defaulting would be much worse and more immediate than failing to reform the budgetary process in the next two weeks. We can take a few months to do that, more carefully, without the risk of defaulting on US Gov debt, by raising the debt ceiling NOW!

I remember when Newt tried this during the Clinton administration and his political career is only just now recovering. If the Tea Party ignoramuses manage to push Boehner into the same play, then Boehner’s career might follow the same path. I would be very surprised if this were to happen and US Congress, in the hands of the Tea Party, fail to raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party will directly face the consequences for such ignorant stupidity (I hope).

Quick clue, they are NOT the same and may even contradict each other [↩]
A pit-bull with lipstick is, in any parlance, still an Ignorant Bitch! [↩]

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