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Boehner Wants To Hold Obama Hostage on the Debt Ceiling Again. Heres How to Stop Him.
By Eliot Spitzer | Posted Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, at 5:53 PM ET
No, there doesnt have to be. Sometimes what is necessary and good policy should just be done. The ceiling will be breached because the fiscal track we are on created another huge deficit this yearas every member of Congress knows and has implicitly supported by agreeing to the expenditures and revenues that are now in place. The debt ceiling will be exceeded because of Boehners policies, policies that have driven government revenues down to about 15.5 percent of GDPwell below historical norms, and far below the expenditure levels of about 22 percent of GDP.
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(328 posts)... need to be framed around the irresponsibility of the republicrats.
Every arguement for the filibuster needs to be framed around how irresponsible it was for the republicans to set the filibuster rules as they did because of the effect on governmental processes.
Every arguement for the super-majority rules needs to be framed around how irresponsible it was for the republicrats to have implemented such a process-ending policy.
Every arguement for the delay in passing middle-class tax cuts needs to be framed around how irresponsible it is for the republicrats to be playing politics with 98% of the population for the benefit of the very few who don't need it anyway.
Every arguement for the imposition of the voter supression laws that have been implemented around the country needs to be framed around how irresponsible it is for the republicrats to limit, not expand, access to voting.