{"id":4301,"date":"2011-03-14T05:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2011-03-14T05:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:07:37","slug":"republicans-return-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/republicans-return-to-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Return to Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as the House Republicans are starting to relent on calls from their InsaniTEA wing to shut down the government, the Senate Republicans are picking up with hostage taking where the House Republicans left off.  The most bought Senator in history announced that all Republican Senators will vote against raising the debt ceiling unless there are cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"BoughtBitch\"In the next couple months, the Treasury Department predicts the U.S. will hit \u201cD-Day<\/a>,\u201d the day the debt reaches the $14.3 trillion ceiling. The reality of the impending deadline has forced some Republican lawmakers to drop their \u201cshowdown\u201d showboating for a more sober position on the debt ceiling. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) admitted that failing to raise the debt ceiling would be \u201ca financial disaster\u201d<\/strong> and send the country \u201cinto a tailspin<\/a>.\u201d House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said such a failure is \u201cunworkable\u201d because \u201cobviously, you can\u2019t default<\/a>.\u201d Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put it more bluntly, stating that this position would \u201cbring collapse and calamity around the world<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

But after backing away from decimating the nation\u2019s economic future, Republicans have now decided to ratchet up the pressure and the take it hostage<\/strong>. A whole host of Republican lawmakers are now angling to use the debt ceiling as leverage to enact severe cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other saftey [sic] net programs<\/font><\/strong>. Today on Fox News Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised his entire caucus would vote against raisin the debt ceiling unless the White House agrees to cut entitlements\u2026<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n