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Monday, August 01, 2011

...whores, con-men, and penny-ante sharpers from East -

Someday

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Congress, a collection of whores, con-men, and penny-ante sharpers from East Jesus, Nebraska, ponders the Great Question: Default now, and admit manfully to being the economic lepers everyone else already knows we are? Or raise the debt ceiling, keep spending like a spoiled Swarthmore sophomore with daddy's credit card, and collapse a bit later?

When we finally get our head out of the sand

It's just lovely. The World’s Greatest Economy holding out the begging bowl to China. “Alms? Alms for the poor?” Maybe I don't have enough Padre Kino after all. Maybe there isn't enough. [Fred Reed]

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Not Today

Rodger the Real King of France 8/01/2011 08:46:00 PM 10 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton

10 comments:

Rodger the Real King of France said...: Borrowing to surge after cap raised...
May not save AAA rating...; 8/1/11, 8:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Same. As. It. Ever. Was.
Letting the days go by....; 8/1/11, 9:27 PM
Jess said...: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

I think the quote fits.; 8/1/11, 9:42 PM
Anonymous said...: No, when the wheels fall off here, they fall off all over the world.

Casca; 8/1/11, 10:25 PM
Sarge said...: Here's what I think about it !

http://aherdofturtles.blogspot.com/2011/08/congratulations-rinos-you-have-now-been.html; 8/1/11, 10:47 PM
toadold said...: Of course if you stand back a bit and look at the situation:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100099357/the-real-story-of-the-us-debt-deal-is-not-the-triumph-of-the-tea-party-but-the-death-of-the-socialist-left/

And:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/far-from-broken-us-a-political-beacon/story-e6frg6ux-1226106212199; 8/2/11, 1:38 AM
pdwalker said...: Disgraceful.

There will be no cuts. Just increased spending year after year.; 8/2/11, 2:55 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: toadold - ur 1st link-

"This negotiation has been an astonishing victory for congressional Republicans.

They have won the intellectual and political argument. President Barack Obama, the biggest-spending president in a generation of US politics, has abandoned plans for new taxes, effectively abandoned plans for any significant new government programs and accepted - in principle and in practice - that there must be deep, structural cuts to US government spending.

Of course, it will be difficult for Republicans to enforce this and to keep their pledges to avoid new spending or merely leaving existing programs on a business-as-usual basis of endless expansion."

Ten years ago I would be joining the revelers and drinking champagne. I am by now admittedly, and I think justifiably, cynical about any "10 year Plan," especially one administered by "bipartisan" committee. There is no arguing that we just raised our debt ceiling by $trillions, and I see no good in it whatever.

Wait, I take that back. Anything that sends the left into paroxysmic spasm has tremendous entertainment value. Laughter is after all the best medicine.; 8/2/11, 7:02 AM
Jess said...: I watched Greta on the tube last night. She was trying to pin down some slick congressfolks on the nuts and bolts of the bill and the immediate effects.

Greta had no luck. They were too slick. She did make them squirm, but then again, it's hard to tell if a snake is squirming, or just being a snake.; 8/2/11, 7:20 AM
JMcD said...: Snake!; 8/2/11, 12:06 PM

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