Before going on to autopsy all the different flavors of fallout that will likely arise from the impending GOP destruction of the global economy, Paul Krugman quite rightly noted that the immediate financial consequence itself is "anything but trivial":
Failure to raise the debt limit — which would, among other things, disrupt payments on existing debt — could convince investors that the United States is no longer a serious, responsible country, with nasty consequences.
But here's the rub, Paul: we are no longer "a serious, responsible country".
We are a country where a serious, reasonable minority is (in the immortal words of "Chase Me Ladies I'm the Cavalry") 'chained to the village idiot' and being dragged along towards yet another nation-mutilating Republican catastrophe across the prostrate bodies of an oblivious Majority who can't be bothered to drag their glassy, cow-dumb eyes away from "Jersey Shore" and "The Real Doxies of the Fourth Circle of Hell" long enough to notice that their world is being axes to atoms all around them.
All this is now more-or-less openly and lavishly funded and directed by evil men, because why bother with awkward disguises and figleafs anymore when the cops, the judges, the politicians and the journalists are mostly cowed into silence or on your fucking payroll?
Paul, this is not the sting of noble battle you are feeling: it is the sensation of being one of the last, aware brain cell trapped inside a dying empire in the last stages of Cultural Sclerosis as it lurches and twitches towards an otherwise predictable and preventable catastrophe.
If we could just move our fingers...if we could only get our legs to listen to reason.
But of course legs and arms and feet and hands are all too busy clapping for Bachmann and stomping for "Shut!It!Down!"
I don't know how this will end, but I do know nothing short of a sharp and substantial drop in the number of Republicans participating in the political process in America is going to prevent this kind of criminally reckless behavior from happening over and over again.
Because the Pig People have discovered the sheer animal delight of holding a gun to the heads of the poor and the sick in order to make their betters dance.
And they will never surrender that power until they are forced to.
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I would love to leave sample comments here from today's Green Bay Press Gazette, which described in detail that, under the new budget, it would be significantly harder to get an education, medical treatment, see an increase wages, etc, etc. I will summarize the comment section as follows: "Good! Congratulations Scott Walker on doing a great job!" We are the country in microcosm--I've signed recall petitions, sent letters, voted to unionize, and there's nothing--not a blip on the radar that an elected official anywhere gives a flying fuck. Well, they might, if it's a private jet flying fuck. You know what I feel like? Whatever the word verification below is asking me to type in: "grubtid." We're all grubtids now.
One of the most troubling scenes from a movie full of troubling scenes.
"Mississippi Burning:My Daddy killed that mule..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzaBi_QxPw
Sadly, I suspect people like Agent Anderson's daddy are still amongst us. I'm pretty sure they're going to be with us forever.
This is where we are today.. your pic says it all... As I see it, we are now in the seventh circle of hell, the one reserved for the violent. I can't fathom anything more violent than what is being placed before us by the right wing as our last best chance out of the pit. Jesus, please us!
I must say that I agree that Paul Krugman is one of the lone voices in the MSM that consistently calls out those rat bastards for what they are. "Speak the truth and shame the devil" is a saying we have here in Texas. Which is why the right wing and their minions go after Paul Krugman on a regular basis. If you can't discredit the data, well then, discredit the messenger.
Such are the times we live in, but we can stand up to the tyranny and never, ever surrender. Battle lines should be drawn...
All I can say is, it couldn't fucking happen to a nicer (or smarter) country! (If I didn't live in a society overrun with utter drooling morons, I would at least try to live up to my screen-name and be less of an elitist snot. Bite me, Homer Simpson America!)
Stripping them naked and drawing and quartering would be a good start, I think.
And it would make just swell "reality TV," wouldn't it?
The audience of Rethugs would never stop building.
You rock the 7th Circle!
S
I do know nothing short of a sharp and substantial drop in the number of Republicans participating in the political process in America is going to prevent this kind of criminally reckless behavior from happening over and over again.
The quote from Chase Me, Ladies reminds me of the climactic scene from Frank Norris' novel McTeague, where McTeague winds up chained to a corpse in Death Valley, having just accidentally put a bullet hole through his canteen...
If the debt-ceiling isn't raised, then the problem in the immediate short-term future won't be so much the inability to mint new debt as it will be inability to roll over a big chunk of old debt. Apologies for linking to a libertarian goldbug site.
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