By Joel Thurtell
“I strongly support Senator McConnell’s efforts to avoid a default on our nation’s debt, and the last-case emergency proposal he outlined yesterday to ensure that Republicans aren’t unduly blamed for failure to raise the debt ceiling,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.
The New York Times, July 14, 2011
Am I dreaming?
John McCain wants “to ensure that Republicans aren’t unduly blamed for failure to raise the debt ceiling”?
Does he think we’ve lost all sense of recent history?
Who but Republicans are responsible for forcing this debt ceiling brinkmanship on the nation and the world?
Which of our two political parties has been threatening to put the country in default unless government as we know it is not dismantled according to their infantile vision of how things should be?
Pardon me for prodding collective memory, but am I mistaken that it was the Republican party en masse who have held the debt ceiling hostage to their ideological posturing?
Now they don’t want to be “unduly blamed” for the results of a default that they have been threatening to make happen unless they got their spoiled rich kid way.
Come on, McCain, face it: We are in a mess that was created by a bunch of rich Republicans who have behaved like thugs willing to take down the nation’s and the world’s economy if they don’t get their way.
I assure you, John McCain, that if bad things happen, Republicans will not be “unduly blamed.”
The GOP will be seen for the destructive force that it is.
The blame will be on the Republican party, and richly deserved.
