Debt Ceiling Charade: Why Are Republicans Voting Against America's Interests?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/economy/151270/debt_ceiling_charade%3A_why_are_republicans_voting_against_america%27s_interests/

There isn’t much credibility left in Congress, perhaps none at all. In fact, the ceaseless C-SPAN sitcom we call government has offered plot lines from titillating tweets to illegitimate children, foreign lovers to shady cover-ups. But even their writers sometimes run out of ideas. Last week, when they thought you weren’t watching, they stooped to acting out their actual jobs: faking a vote on the debt ceiling.

A group of Republicans and Democrats alongside them turned sacred duty into dramedy. Pretending they would favor something they actually don’t endorse, they voted against their own beliefs and our national interests.



Of course, they first sold their banker buddies the good seats. Along with popcorn and reassurance that they weren’t actually planning a default on our debt, they were just pretending to do so in order to exact concessions.

These “leaders” admit that not raising the debt limit is untenable. Defaulting on our loans, we’re told, has the potential to wreck our economy. In fact, we’re supposed to be very concerned about this economy. It’s not “healthy”; it’s in “free-fall”; it’s “crumbling into ruin”.

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[aquart]

1. They think it will bring them into power.

Although having power over a crumbling third world mess is not as much fun as they think it will be.

[Distant Observer]

2. They know that the natural business cycle will slowly pull the ecomony up. They are determined to

slow down the recovery -- and seem to be doing quite well at that.

[aquart]

8. "Natural business cycle" LOL!!!!

[LiberalEsto]

3. Because America's interests are not the same

as corporate interests.

[DJ13]

4. Its all a bluff

But..... its a bluff many in the leadership of our party want to perpetuate because they also want to slash 'entitlements' that only benefit the poor and the elderly so they can give further tax breaks to the already well off.

[HopeHoops]

5. To fuck the economy as hard as possible before the 2012 elections - they can't stand Obama.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. They'd have some credibility if they voted to defund the wars and raise taxes.

Of course, so would the Democrats if they did so.

[ej510]

7. Because republicans are terrorists.