Mitch McConnell rebukes the tea party and finally puts country ahead of party. Mitch McConnell Defends Allowing Debt Ceiling Vote In a Friday campaign appearance in Louisville, McConnell said he had to "step up and lead," dismissing critics headed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). "My job is to protect the country when I can and to step up and lead on those occasions when it's required," McConnell said, according to WHAS-TV. "That's what I did."
McConnell wanted the bill to pass but didn't want to vote for it. Cruz made him. How is that a bad thing?
My country's job is to protect my job from the person whose job it is to protect this country from the person whose job it is to protect this country.
I heard an interesting story on NPR, yesterday, about a Communications consultant for the dems. He told them to stop using the phrase "raise the debt ceiling" and instead use the phrase "prevent defaulting on the debt." And "defaulting on the debt would be a catastrophe" as opposed to "irresponsible." Both rephrasings are closer to how most people describe their mortgage debt, so rings closer to home to them. Raising you debt ceiling sounds like increasing your credit, which is just spend, spend, spend. Whereas, defaulting on your mortgage is a tragedy. That apparently worked much better. He similarly helped the republicans by having them rephrase "eliminate the estate tax" to "eliminate the death tax."
No one really cares about this country. They just care about themselves. Which ends up working out most of the time.
Right, but Cruz exposed McConnell by forcing him to go on record wanting the bill to pass without technically voting for it. McConnell votes no, but hopes yes.
The GOP has the votes to stop the debt ceiling from being raised unconditionally. Cruz forced McConnell to go on record refusing to exercise that power.
And destroying the country, given the House GOP's situation. So yeah, McConnell took his less-than-ideal option in order to protect the country. That's sort of the point. He couldn't get what he wanted, so instead of throwing a "my way or the highway" tantrum, he governed.
That is interesting. It's the pity of the world that this country is so easy to influence by simply changing a few words, changing a phrase. The thing described isn't any different than it was before, yet the perception is changed. We can be such a shallow people at times.
The conditions the conservatives want to put on not defaulting on the debt are stupid and ahistorical. Austerity in a recession or period or slow growth is a fail. It is time to move past simplistic conservative thinking that the US economy is like a household that needs to cut back on expenses because they can't afford to pay the credit bill. Maybe another simplistic household example will help you though. A household is having a hard time paying its bill including its credit cards. Is the answer cutting back on spending and paying down the cards and other debt? Not necessarily,. Perhaps the answer is to take out more debt so you can finish nursing school quicker and then have more income sooner to deal with the even bigger debt. Similarly going more into debt if needed to make the country start growing faster is the way to go. Now it is true that some of the wealthy don't care if the economy grows faster and are mainly concerned about keeping inflation low at all costs or insuring that they do not have to pay more taxes in the future to pay off the debt, or preventing the the government having the money to regulate their pollution or their financial frauds, but this should not apply to a little guy like yourself, especially one who espouses only your own self interest as king.
True that. I guess the first priority of making Obama a one term president didn't work out so well; and after 5 years of obstruction it's nice to see some sanity. Plus hearing him kick the likes of Cruz in the teeth is just a bonus.
Cruz is great kicking dems and rinos in the teeth!1 He will be a Senator as long as he wants..McConnel might lose this next election...what a dunce he is.
