Crossposted from The People's View
These are the facts...
* Since 1917, the debt ceiling has been raised 102 times.
* Since 1962, the debt ceiling has been raised 74 times.
* During the Reagan era, it was raised 18 times.
* Under George W. Bush, it was raised 7 times.
The Republicans are again at work trying to obstruct and shut down the Government by refusing to extend debt ceiling without entitlement cuts to appear fiscally responsible.
...but I will get to that a little later.
However, the same old shit is being said in different form from one diary to another scolding this President repeatedly multiple times over the head again and again and again with so much insult and poutrage. That is what electing more and better Democrats mean at Dailykos lately.
I don't know. Some seem to think the phrase "make me do it" is a license to verbally put the President on life support because I swear the condescending shit that is being said about the President in the comments of some of these diaries are horrific, irresponsible and completely Juvenile.
Here is the latest on the recommended list, a diary, It’s not like you weren’t warned, another bullshit diary if I may add, sourcing a diary written by someone in December 2010, who a couple of days ago uprated one of the most vile insulting comments on the President - a comment by an idiot who said, "Obama can blow me. The same uprater who also wanted to "Kill The Bill", a health care bill that provides subsidized insurance to 31 million Americans.
The whole premise of that sourced diary was to pretty much undermine the President's negotiations of the Bush's tax cut deal for not including the debt ceiling last December while it has been put on the table and rejected by the Republicans then, not to mention the accusation of how "the President has advances Republican right-wing framing on the tax cuts issue". I have written about the benefit of the tax cut deal here extensively if anyone wants to see the detail and the multiple credible source who praised President Obama's final agreement.
Here is another diary,Compromise My Ass, on the recommended list that makes the word "compromise" as the most cynical thing ever for Democrats to use forgetting the fact that American politics is not a dictatorship. Negotiations are always important to advance progress regardless of the fact some out there don't like it. An example of compromise that is acceptable and not acceptable must however be distinguished and Rep. Pelosi and Rep. Frank have some examples of each here on the debt ceiling worth the read in this TPM article.
What is disheartening however is, the fact that in these posts, you will find the same ole same ole foaming at the mouth, throwing punches at the President with vile and ugliness but non of them discuss what we are facing if the debt ceiling is not increased, the hardship it will cause many Americans and how to educate the public about what is at stake. Better yet, we don't have any messaging strategy to show the American people how the Republican strategy will cripple the Economy and bankrupt our livelihood.
So, for a change, I ask those who never quit to throw punches at the President to get to the core issues of the Republican agenda and the problem why President Obama is having a problem to get a bill out of Congress since past debt ceiling increase Bills were in fact a one sentence bill that passed the House without $0.01 of cut to any programs.
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