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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 10-10-2013
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Shutdown Showdown: A Theatrical Review
Excerpts From the Script, Day 10
By Mark Alexander
Oct. 10, 2013
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” –Thomas Jefferson (1816)
The political theatrics over the current furlough of 17% of federal bureaucrats deemed “non essential,” and the looming deadline for raising the national debt ceiling, surely will sweep the Emmy Awards this year.
On one side, there is Barack Hussein Obama1 and his Leftist NeoCom cadres2, who treat their political opponents with the same “comity and respect” socialist dictators3 exhibit with dissenters who question their autocratic decrees.
On the other side are House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and their endangered band of Republicans.
Watching Obama’s petulant and paternalistic approach to Boehner in particular, I’m inclined to borrow and butcher a classic line from Strother Martin, the prison warden in “Cool Hand Luke,” after his repeated attempts to beat Luke into submission: “What we’ve got here is failure to negotiate.”
For his part, Obama claims:
“What I’ve said is that I will talk about anything. … I’ve shown myself willing to engage all the parties involved, every leader, on every issue. … If reasonable Republicans want to talk about these things again, I’m ready to head up to the Hill. … But I’m not gonna do it until the more extreme parts of the Republican Party stop forcing John Boehner to issue threats about our economy. We can’t make extortion routine as part of our democracy. … I’ve shown myself as willing to go more than halfway. … Again, I’m happy to talk. … I’m prepared to talk about anything.”
Memo to Barry: We are a Republic, not a democracy, and there is a difference in dissension and extortion.
Obama continued:
“Pass a budget, end the government shutdown, pay our bills and prevent an economic shutdown. And as soon as that happens, I am eager and ready to sit down and negotiate with Republicans on a whole range of issues.”
Harry Reid got the memo:
“I just finished a telephonic conversation with Speaker Boehner. My message to him was very simple. We have to stop playing these foolish games that keep coming to us from the other side of the Capitol. This is not about him or me, about scoring points for one side or the other, name-calling, like the villain of villains. It’s about doing the right thing for the American people. They expect us to act like adults. … Open the government, pay our bills, let’s negotiate.”
Obama’s always-petty and insolent White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, pulled out all the hyperbolic stops, claiming:
“[Obama] is willing to have negotiations about what steps we should take to fund our government in a way that allows us to invest in the future, protect the middle class, attract businesses to the United States, and reduce our deficit in a responsible and balanced way. … He’s not willing to negotiate over Republican demands to collapse the world economy. … But he will meet after Republicans agree to leave the matches and the gasoline outside of the room.”
Of course, Obama’s faux overture to negotiate is a bald-faced LIE, which one can fairly assume is the case any time there is a microphone nearby. As George Orwell wrote, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
For his part, John Boehner held his ground4, for the moment:
“What the president said today was, if there is unconditional surrender by Republicans, he’ll sit down and talk to us. That’s not the way our government works. The long and short of it is, there is going to be a negotiation here. We can’t raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what’s driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means. The idea that we should continue to spend money that we don’t have and give the bill to our kids and our grandkids would be wrong. I didn’t come here to shut down the government. I certainly didn’t come here to default on our debt. But when it comes to the debt limit, again, over the last 40 years, 27 times, the debt limit has been used to carry significant policy changes that would in fact reduce spending and put us on a saner fiscal path. It’s time to have that conversation … today.”
Responding to his Republican opponents, Obama proclaimed:
“I’m not going to allow anybody to drag the good name of the USA through the mud just to re-fight a settled election or extract ideological demands. Nobody gets to hurt our economy and millions of hardworking families…”
This from a guy who has, singlehandedly, done more to “drag the good name of the USA through the mud” and “hurt our economy and millions of hardworking families” than any president in our nation’s history.
Obama added:
“I’m not budging when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States.”
In other words, he’s determined to continue down the same path of fiscal self destruction, as long as he has unlimited ability to continue redistributing wealth and creating more government dependents, his most loyal constituent base.
Of course, Republicans in the House have passed bipartisan bills to restore funding5 to key government services.
Asked why he has been signing those measures, Obama replied:
“Of course I’m tempted, because you’d like to think that you could solve at least some of the problem if you couldn’t solve all of it. But here’s the problem. … If we do some sort of shotgun approach like that, then you’ll have some programs that are highly visible get funded and reopened … but things that don’t get a lot of attention … not being funded.” |
