Hey, Bobby (you don’t mind if I call you that, do you?), all your side had to do was pass a couple of budgets. You know, like the Law states they were supposed to.
I realized just how depressing last October, when Congress voted on legislation that would raise the debt ceiling — allowing the Treasury to pay the debts Congress had already incurred — and keep the government open. This was exciting, but perversely so. On Oct. 16, 162 members of Congress, 144 in the House and 18 in the Senate, voted “no,” votes meant explicitly to drive their government into bankruptcy, when there was a real chance that their view might prevail. Here was an entirely new style of public service, and it turned my stomach.
Well, at least he called the Democrats stupid.
Yes yes the ‘climate deniers’ at it again failing America because they are unwilling to help flush billions of dollars more down the crapper to aid a problem; a problem like so many of the issues in Washington that exist only in the fevered minds of our hard working politicians and their enablers in the media.
I wonder if he would understand that he IS the problem. Bitching about lost opportunity to change the status quo after retirement makes me wonder what he actually did as a journalist. He still believes in global warming so it couldn’t have been much.
What a dork. He is long past his due date. The Democrats are just lovely & the Press knows it. He is bitter that Clinton went through impeachment (He lied to a Grand Jury, remember the blue dress) but the shit head blames Republicans. Gore sued to become President (what part of that dance does he not understand). The Clinton Lesbian AG who fire bombed women & children. The MSM didn’t touch Reno.. AGW the Democrats
fraudulent science for wealth distribution (sick joke)
Yes! he is his own problem and I would guess he belongs to a special group that feels threatened by any & all Republicans.
If he had done his job we would not be in the trenches
Debt ceilings are a farce. They should rather be laws that mandate a GST spike in times of deficit. Not an invisible cash cow VAT or an other people’s income tax but a GST that smacks everyone in the wallet every time they buy something. Nothing would motivate politicians more I’d think.
With 89% of Americans believing Congress is non functional an a detriment to their lives, something should be done quickly to restore public confidence – or maybe not.
“144 in the House and 18 in the Senate, voted “no,” votes meant explicitly to drive their government into bankruptcy”
Actually it is the ‘yes’ votes that are votes to drive the government into bankruptcy, the no votes were votes to default in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy and bring some sanity to the budget. Of course you can’t expect someone who’s been a liberal for 70 years to understand that. I imagine the rest of his column was just as fact-free as that assertion.
“Our moderate President”
Someone needs a 12 step program or a lobotomy.
What do you expect from a “man” who has spent his entire life, 70 years, in washington DC, totally surrounded by librul pukes like him, reinforcing his librul indoctrination beliefs. Anyone who disagrees with him is stupid! You helped destroy this once-great country. Why haven’t you done your job for the last 70 years? Where is our Tacitus, who can name all these traitorous libruls, to give the descendants of our once-great country the actual names of those who did it.
By the way, have you all noticed that our “president” now has the power to abrogate any ratified treaty he wishes to? That he can do that without reaction and punishment from our so-called legislative branch says it is too late.
The US is 17.4Trillion in debt with an annual cost of servicing the debt that exceeds a Trillion dollars. Holding the current course is suicidal or stupid but in Bob’s addled mind it is better to keep spending until the govt goes broke, which could cause financial collapse, mass riots, succession and civil war than to put the brakes on?
No need to ask his party affiliation, is there?