{"id":11130,"date":"2013-09-15T00:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11130"},"modified":"2013-09-15T00:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:31:46","slug":"republicans-plan-to-rely-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/republicans-plan-to-rely-on-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Plan to Rely on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2011, I predicted that, if Democrats caved-in to Republican blackmail on the debt ceiling, it would just open the floodgates on even more Republican terrorism.  I was furious when Democrats caved-in, opening the door for the Republican sequester.  Was I right or what?  Never again!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Two years ago, Congressional Republicans took the unprecedented step of holding the debt ceiling hostage<\/a><\/font> in order to extract draconian spending cuts. Now, the GOP’s willingness to sabotage the American (and global) economy may be about to take an even more dangerous–and obscene–turn. House Republicans are suggesting they will not support an increase in the U.S. borrowing authority this fall unless Democrats agree to "revenue-neutral" overhaul of the tax code<\/a><\/font>. That is to say, Republicans are threatening to trigger a default unless they get a deal that doesn’t reduce the deficits at all<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/font><\/p>\n

The latest GOP extortion couldn’t come at a worse time. After all, the federal budget sequester which began in March is already slowing economic growth<\/a><\/font> and costing American jobs. Meanwhile, the CBO and analysts like Goldman Sachs have forecast that Uncle Sam’s rapidly shrinking annual budget deficits<\/a><\/font> will soon put U.S. national debt levels on a sustainable path<\/a><\/font>. (That reality even prompted House Speaker John Boehner and Budget Committee Chairman to admit that "we have no immediate debt crisis.")  Now, two years after the GOP’s first debt limit blackmail hammered consumer confidence and job growth, Republicans are preparing a new ransom note. As Politico<\/a><\/font> recently explained:<\/font><\/p>\n

Now, momentum is building to tie a rewrite of the Tax Code to hiking the debt cap, which will need to be raised by the fall because the limit will technically be hit this month. Top lawmakers and aides on the House Ways and Means Committee have quietly begun mulling over and crafting mechanisms that would attempt to "commit Washington" to tax reform over the next five months, several sources involved with the planning say.<\/font><\/p>\n

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From <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Translate "tax reforms" as more tax welfare for the 0.1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Chris Hayes explains the issues in detail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

When Obama and the Democrats caved in 2011, it was a huge mistake. It must never happen again. We lave no choice, but to allow the Republican Party do do whatever damage they will, while making sure that they face the political consequences for doing so. Eventually Boehner and Cantor, who already know they\u2019re on a path to political suicide, will cave-in on both the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling, and allow the small, sane minority of Republicans in the House vote with Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n

The bottom line is this, when we give in to terrorism, it guarantees more terrorism, and this Republican sedition is terrorism.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2011, I predicted that, if Democrats caved-in to Republican blackmail on the debt ceiling, it would just open the floodgates on even more Republican terrorism.  I was furious when Democrats caved-in, opening the door for the Republican sequester.  Was I right or what?  Never again! Two years ago, Congressional Republicans took the unprecedented step […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}