Sarah Palin returns to warn that government will not only break down but is hoarding
bullets to deal with the enraged taxpayers.
“If
we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when
we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits,” she confides to Facebook, “then
we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually
and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.”
She
noses out John Boehner whose latest horror scene is over an "outrageous"
move by federal immigration officials to release hundreds of illegal immigrants
as a way to save money ahead of Friday's deadline.
The
competition has been bipartisan as Washington
Post columnist David Ignatius suggests the White House has been joining them
in weeks of “blame-game politics. Doesn’t the president see that the GOP is
addicted to this showdown at Thunder Road? This is all the power the GOP has
these days, really--the ability to scare the heck out of everybody and run the
car into the ditch.”
In
all this sturm und drang, it is the
nation’s union leaders, Obama’s strongest backers, who are calling for sanity
by repealing the law that set up sequestration.
“We
urge,” says the AFL-CIO executive council, “President Obama and members of
Congress of both parties to reject the Republican ransom demands and disarm the
hostage takers instead. Only then can we focus on the urgent challenge of
fixing the economy, raising wages, investing in our people and putting America
back to work.”
Not
as sexy as Palin’s call to “stop the hysterics,” but any sign of agreement is
heartening.
When you say both sides are using scare tactics, you don't cite any examples of Dems actually doing so. Instead you quote David Ignatius echoing your claim that both sides are doing it. That's not evidence of anything except that you and Ignatius agree.
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