Just caught this on Yahoo!’s homepage.
So, the Republicans just want “partisan payback.” I guess in the Yahoo! universe, Republicans are not allowed to vote down a bill on principle.
Debate on the measure was often testy and reflected the growing frustration among lawmakers. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi pleaded for an end to “this theater of the absurd” and said “it’s time for us to get real.”
Using that line to close out the text of the article, the Associated Press suggests that the realist Pelosi is standing up to the absurdist Republicans.
(And make sure you check out the beginning of the article, noting how the author describes Reid’s plan, making it sound like a conservative approach to our nation’s spending problem. And in the caption, the plan is “Harry Reid’s debt plan,” described without adjectives while the Republicans are portrayed as vindictive partisans.)
The bias is so blatant all the time, it is beginning to wear me out. The TV anchors on my local stations are most likely Democrat partisans, but they are also (almost as likely) clueless as to the games being played by the President and the other Democrats with regards to this trumped-up deadline of August 2nd. So when they say, “If no debt increase is passed by August 2nd, the U.S. will default on its debt,” I scream at the TV: “No, the U.S. will only default if the Obama administration decides to default!”
As most conservatives know by now, even without a debt ceiling increase, there will be more than enough revenue coming into the treasury for the country to service the debt, make social security payments and pay for the military. But the President and his party would rather pretend that default is imminent if it can’t get the debt ceiling extended through some point after the next election. Naturally the AP will try to avoid reporting anything like that, though.
It’s like screaming FIRE in a crowded thearter isn’t it Kurt? You and I would be arrested in no time at all.
The press supports big government/big government spending. They will never be our friend/like us. Get over it.
The desperation of the media is getting to the point of complete insanity. Witness this hatchet job by CNN.
My favorite:
Rep. Kevin Yoder, a freshman Republican from Kansas, said in a recent press release, “Washington needs to cut up the credit cards.” But Yoder’s own form shows he amassed at least $15,000 in what’s called a “revolving charge account” with Citigroup.
So the Obama Party and its press puppets are now trying to argue that anyone with any credit card debt is a hypocrite when it comes to government debt.
This is not applied to Obama Party hacks. Not at all. You can default on however many houses you want like Laura Richardson, and there is no question about whether you can handle the nation’s finances.
Disgusting and sick.
Link for above: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/28/hardliners-in-debt-talks-have-debt-problems-of-their-own/
The (Lakeland) Ledger ran an Op-Ed, a few hours ago, blaming our local Republican reps for voting the wrong way. They called it “irresponsible” ignoring the irresponsible spending by liberals that’s got us in this mess to begin with. They trotted out the usual crap about how not raising the ceiling, rather than the spending, is what threatens our credit rating. They also ran with the bullshit line that cutting government spending now will destroy the economy.