Republican Mainstream Flirts with Brief US Default

[MKTrader]

Quote from piezoe:

It is OK to be annoyed when someone says something negative about some of your favorite politicians. It's a natural reaction, and I understand.

When did I say those were my favorite politicians? Can you get past the partisan stuff and deal with the fact that the welfare state architects and drivers are very much to blame for our current mess?

Or would that be biting the hand that feeds you?

I'm against both the welfare and warfare state. But the the warfare part is far from a Republican phenomemon. Obama could've pulled out of Iraq his first day in office (as he promised) but didn't. Instead he got heavily invested in Afgahnistan and now with Libya. The double standards from his "Yes we Can!" cult are just priceless.

 

[MKTrader]

Quote from Lights:

No, I agreed with the original comment that GOP policy has essentially been Keynesian for decades and Ron Paul & the tea party shmucks such as Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly who oppose this, are just socialists puking subverted slavery era libertarianism to gain the poor white vote. You may consider taking Adderall to help follow a dialog.

Wow, you just lowered your own bar even further.

Beck & O'Relly don't like Paul. They aren't true economic libertarians (O'Reilly isn't even close) and hate his so-called isolationism.

Poor whites tend to get riled up by "support the troops" more than anything else. That's 180 degrees from Paul. Since you love playing the race card, why did the vast majority of poor blacks vote for Obama? It wouldn't have anything to do with his B-grade, venomous class warfare rhetoric, now would it?

I hardly ever take prescription meds so I don't know what drug you're talking about. Something you score from Medicaid?

 

[shortie]

Obama more or less warns about Black Monday:

With the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling approaching, Obama said at the White House tonight that “at minimum” Congress must act to avoid a U.S. default that would roil financial markets and damage the economy. He said he was consulting with Treasury Department officials about a default’s potential consequences.

“It’s very important that the leadership understands that Wall Street will be opening on Monday and we’d better have some answers during the course of the next several days,” Obama said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...way-from-fair-deal-in-debt-ceiling-talks.html

 

[Lights]

You've got to be kidding me. The brainwash must be much more pervasive than I thought. Glen Beck preaches isolationism and that "we should be switzerland". His gig is to misquote a founding father and lend a false credibility to this and all his ideas. He successfully preaches that founding fathers were anti-free international trade (a lie) with his paternal chalkboard antics.

O'Reilly thinks WW2 was a mistake and smears war heroes but supports war on terror cos he hates muslims. He believes that all illegals should be shot but somehow thinks his illegal heritage of Irish catholic immigration is substantiated equating it to historical enslavement of African Americans.

These three gentlemen share 1 thing in common. They engage in the best of political subversion under the veil of "white conservatism". They're definitely not Republicans and definitely NOT libertarians. Libertarians don't talk this much on what people should and shouldn't do.

Getting back on topic, yes these people are neurotic drama queens.

Quote from MKTrader:

Wow, you just lowered your own bar even further.

Beck & O'Relly don't like Paul. They aren't true economic libertarians (O'Reilly isn't even close) and hate his so-called isolationism.

Poor whites tend to get riled up by "support the troops" more than anything else. That's 180 degrees from Paul. Since you love playing the race card, why did the vast majority of poor blacks vote for Obama? It wouldn't have anything to do with his B-grade, venomous class warfare rhetoric, now would it?

I hardly ever take prescription meds so I don't know what drug you're talking about. Something you score from Medicaid?

 

[Lights]

This tea party crap is a transitory invention used by both sides. They threaten default to lower top tax rate to 28% on the wealthy. They divide the conservative vote and insure an Obama re-election. A real republican won't stand up until 2016.

 

[C6H12O6]

-10 days to default
-political instability

why on earth USA still has AAA rating ?

 

[Lights]

because the USA is still the master nation with the most guns

Quote from C6H12O6:

-10 days to default
-political instability

why on earth USA still has AAA rating ?

 

[shortie]

Is there a strategy that could place all the blame on the other side here? I suspect there is none. All these "walked out on great deal", "last minute changes" - are just BS talk.

But If there were such a strategy then it would make political sense for one of the sides to engineer the default.

 

[RobtF]

Quote from shortie:

Is there a strategy that could place all the blame on the other side here? I suspect there is none. All these "walked out on great deal", "last minute changes" - are just BS talk.

But If there were such a strategy then it would make political sense for one of the sides to engineer the default.

I hope you're not seious. Default is too serious a matter with truly unknown consequences.

 

[shortie]

i am serious. i don't believe those politicians give a rat's asss about the country. if they could kick the other guys out (Rep or Dem) without risking their own career they would do it.

the only reason there won't be a default is because the blame would have to be shared.