There is room for doubt here. If Republicans want to hold America hostage doesn't that put them in the "traitors" category? If they found papers on Obama's desk indicating that he had plans to hold America hostage, can you imagine the reaction?
... Hypocrisy is a secondary issue here. The primary issue should be the extraordinary nihilism now on display by Mr. Cantor and his colleagues — their willingness to flout all the usual conventions of fair play and, well, decency in order to get what they want.
Not long ago, a political party seeking to change U.S. policy would try to achieve that goal by building popular support for its ideas, then implementing those ideas through legislation. That, after all, is how our political system was designed to work.
But today’s G.O.P. has decided to bypass all that and go for a quicker route. Never mind getting enough votes to pass legislation; it gets what it wants by threatening to hurt America if its demands aren’t met. ...Paul Krugman
All things considered, I don't think it would be out of line to do some formal questioning. I'm not talking about rendition. Well, not yet anyway...
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Steve Benen talks about the economic results of the GOP's destructive policies.
Whenever new economic reports offer more discouraging news, the reactions from the right are always the same: (1) it must be President Obama’s fault; and (2) it’s time to try things the Republican way.
And the political world just goes along, refusing to acknowledge that we’re already trying things the GOP’s way ... and it’s not working.
Whether the GOP wants to admit it or not, the economy is advancing exactly as they want it to. The private sector is being left to its own devices; the public sector is shedding jobs quickly and scrapping investments; and the only permitted topic of conversation is about debt-reduction.
This is the script the GOP wrote.
There are always going to be voters who stick with their party no matter what it does. But there are Republicans, after all, who know plenty about economics. They must be finding it very, very hard to go along with what their party is up to.
