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McConnell and Boehner: (1) backed the Bush/Cheney agenda that added $5 trillion to the debt; (2) decided they no longer liked raising the debt ceiling; (3) held the nation hostage, threatening to hurt the country on purpose unless they got their way; and (4) rejected a White House offer to reduce the debt by $4 trillion.
Nothing says ‘grown-up behavior’ like the antics of an elementary schoolyard bully.
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From “Adults don’t hold the nation hostage” by Steve Benen, who closes the article with: “GOP leaders aren’t just comfortable deliberately holding the country hostage, they’re lacking in self-awareness, seeing themselves as responsible ‘adults’ who aren’t doing anything wrong.”
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"If we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating."
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Then Vice President Dick Cheney, in September 2004, on the stump fearmongering campaigning for Bush/Cheney eight weeks before the 2004 Presidential election.
Nah, the Republicans never politicized 9/11.
think-progress:
think-progress:
Affordable: $1 TRILLION per year in tax cuts for the rich
Unaffordable: $6 BILLION per year to help millions of students
And more math-ish thinking:
Affordable: 1 year of tax cuts for 3,340 multimillion dollar estates
Unaffordable: 10 years’ worth of school lunch for 280,000 low-income kids
(Source: The New York Times, via silas216)
"Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive."
— American Vice President Joe Biden, kicking ass on the campaign trail.
"I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us."
— Ann Romney, who has four houses, dressage horses and an elevator for her cars.
You have to be impressed with an ego so grandiose, and supporters so blind, that bouncing campaign checks on the heels of bankruptcy filing of his health care PAC doesn’t automatically disqualify Gingrich from managing a 7-11, let alone the United States of America.