GOP must call out Obama’s Big ‘default’ Lie, chide Bernanke

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:44 PM  | 

And it would help if Bernanke would stop enabling the Big Liar Just as in the 2011 battle over the raising of the debt ceiling, President Barack Obama is again accusing Republicans in Congress of “risking default” unless they raise the debt limit before it is reached within the next two months. It was Big Lie in 2011, just as it is now, in 2013. | Read More »

Dr. Debthate or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Government Shutdowns

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  January 8th at 05:09 PM  | 

President Obama’s blindness to government spending problem, and insistence on ever more tax increases on the rich towards always moving fair share-goalposts, makes refusal of the Republican House to raise the debt ceiling an acceptable option. In the wake of the 2010 tea partier conservative epic GOP mid-term election landslide that returned control of the House of Representatives to the party, this columnist urged Republicans | Read More »

What Republicans can’t do, can do, ought do and must do

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  January 4th at 02:52 PM  | 

Only President Barack Obama can cause the U.S. to default on its sovereign debt, and congressional Republicans must make this fact clear to the American people before the current debt ceiling is reached. And only by owning the definition of “default” does the minority party in control of only one house of Congress have any chance of using the debt limit debate to rein in | Read More »