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by Joel B. Pollak
The White House and its press corps have come to a consensus that the recent shutdown/debt limit debate was a "manufactured crisis"--the implication being that it was manufactured by Republicans.
That is untrue--first because President Barack Obama and the Democrats could easily have averted a crisis if they had been willing to compromise, and second because forcing such confrontations has been their strategy since 2011.
The debt limit was not a priority for the Tea Party until the Democrats made it one. In the 2010 elections, the subject almost never came up. There was certainly no plan to shut down the government if the Republicans did not get their way. Rather, interest in these confrontations came from the Democrats and the Obama administration, who saw the 1995-6 crises as models for how to defeat congressional Republicans.
xuenchen
So *WHO* was more guilty and *WHO* did the most economic damage ?
U.S. House bills from Late September - Oct 16
masqua
xuenchen
So *WHO* was more guilty and *WHO* did the most economic damage ?
U.S. House bills from Late September - Oct 16
[view from Canada]
The citizens of the USofA for allowing the republic to slip away from the people into the hands of greedy corporate interests and by electing politicians into both parties who are more than willing to grease the rails for those same corporations.
You all collectively have no-one to blame but yourselves.
[/view from Canada]
Bassago
I'm not up on Canadian politics but isn't Harper trying to do much of the same corporate shillery?
Keep trying, but it isn't working.
Anyone with eyes, ears and a brain can plainly see that the Tea Party Republicans manufactured this crisis in an attempt to get their way...and they failed.
They even admitted that they failed and that it was a "good try".
But yeah, keep trying.
In times of troubles ,chaos cannot be defined as guilt of one person,but can be taken as collective guilt,only that will bring more chaos.
Actually, Obama 'Manufactured' the Crisis ?
The republicans did. They caused in their attempt to keep Obama from accomplishing anything. It's really obvious. They have obstructed everything he has tried to do and when he got the ACA through they have just been batshoot crazy. People are smarter than you give them credit for. At least 70% are anyway, according to the polls.
Masqua!!!! There is the perfect example of why us Americans can't do anything to change what is happening in our country!
The BLAME GAME!!!
Curious that you are blaming me for "the blame game" when the entire premise of this thread is attempting to blame Obama.
But you didn't seem to have a problem with that, huh? This thread isn't a perfect example, apparently because it is blaming Obama....but I am the perfect example because I am pointing out common sense.