[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: After Downgrade, Americans Must Drive Tea Party From Power
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- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:12:24 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS:
After Downgrade, Americans Must Drive Tea Party From Power
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After Downgrade, Americans Must Drive Tea Party From Power
Posted: 8/8/11 05:54 PM ET
Fernando Espuelas.
Host of "The Fernando Espuelas Show" on Univision Radio
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fernando-espuelas/
debt-downgrade-tea-party_b_920519.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/44wyotn
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Can the United States pay 100% of its financial obligations? Of course.
That is not the issue driving the downgrade of U.S. creditworthiness by
Standard & Poor's.
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Rather, S&P's downgrade is a pointed critique of our political system --
the reality that we have a group of political extremists, nihilist, who
have invaded and seemingly conquered the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan
conservatives.
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This band of political hooligans are both unable and uninterested in
governing. Reagan would have a hard time recognizing these Tea Partiers as
real Republicans.
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Let's face it, the Tea Party has sought to shut down the Government by any
means necessary. As another expression of their nihilism, fresh from the
Tea Party's foray into vandalizing America's economic stability, they most
recently blocked funding of the Federal Aviation Administration, purely
for ideological reasons.
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It is fair to assume that any rational American would agree that the FAA,
responsible for our civilian air transportation system, is a critical
agency to keep funded.
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But we are not talking here about a group of people moved by the quaint
notion that Government decisions must be made with reason, using empirical
data, and a spirit, as the U.S. Constitution says, of promoting the
"general welfare" of all Americans.
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This band of Tea Party ideologues in Congress share a quasi-religious zeal
that can withstand exposure to any contradicting data or objective
reality. The whole world, including vast majorities of Americans, yelled
at them "don't blow up the American economy!"
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Yet they purposefully drove the country to the very precipice of calamity,
to paraphrase Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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Is it surprising then that such a radical, destructive agenda is creating
significant market turbulence? Not in the least. In fact, it would be
surprising if it didn't seriously rock global markets -- as it has.
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Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, a candidate for president in 2012, is the
Chairperson of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress. She voted against the
deal to raise the debt ceiling. Why? Dana Milbank of the Washington Post
writes:
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When Michele Bachmann was asked during a television interview last week
whether she thought higher unemployment would increase her chances of
winning the presidency, she gave an unexpectedly candid reply: "I hope
so."
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Now she's putting that theory to the test. On Wednesday, she argued that
failure to raise the debt limit -- a prospect that even Republican
congressional leaders say could lead to economic catastrophe -- might not
be such a bad thing.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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