{"id":3784,"date":"2011-01-04T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2011-01-04T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:14:27","slug":"the-republican-terrorists-new-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/the-republican-terrorists-new-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Terrorists’ New Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republicans have a new hostage, the faith and credit of the United States.  I first predicted this in November in Republican Roulette with the Debt Ceiling<\/a>.  I followed it up in December in The Next Republican Hostage<\/a>.  I discussed how giving in to terrorist demands makes them more likely to take hostages and more recalcitrant in their negotiations in Sorry, Joe. I Don\u2019t Believe You!<\/a>.  And now we have arrived.  Let me repeat that giving in to Republican demands, no matter what they are, is not an acceptable strategy, because it amounts to giving in to terrorist demands.  Obama and the Democrats in Congress must call their bluff.  Personally, I do not believe they will go through with it.  To do so would write their own political death warrant.  This is not the time for more cowardice.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"republican-lies\"Battle lines are being drawn in Washington with the Obama administration accusing Republicans of playing a dangerous game of chicken over the federal government’s debt limit.<\/p>\n

The ABC reports the 112th US Congress begins midweek and Republicans have signalled [sic] they won’t agree to increase the federal debt level<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They also promise early votes on spending cuts and say they will hold investigations into wasteful government spending.<\/p>\n

The ABC reports the federal debt limit is $US14 trillion, which the administration says is likely to be reached sometime in March.<\/p>\n

Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina, Republican) told Meet the Press on NBC on Sunday he would not support a higher debt ceiling unless spending is cut to 2008 levels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"The last election was about change, change that really will make us something other than Greece," he said.<\/p>\n

The US budget deficit was $US1.3 trillion in 2010.<\/p>\n

On Face the Nation on CBS, Minnesota Republican representative Michelle Bachmann said:<\/p>\n

"Congress has had a big party the last two years. They couldn’t spend enough money and now they’re … taunting us about ‘How are you going to go ahead and solve this big spending crisis?’."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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They are lying.  Tell them to bring it on.  Chris Hayes and David Frum, former speech writer for Crawford Caligula agree.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

For those that wring their hands, quiver and ask, \u201cBut what if the actually do it?\u201d, I say, let them.  As big a tragedy as that would be, allowing the Republicans kill Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Environmental quality, women\u2019s rights, gay rights, civil rights and more, one hostage at a time would be far worse.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republicans have a new hostage, the faith and credit of the United States.  I first predicted this in November in Republican Roulette with the Debt Ceiling.  I followed it up in December in The Next Republican Hostage.  I discussed how giving in to terrorist demands makes them more likely to take hostages and more […]<\/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-3784","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\/3784","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=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}