In an action that would further erode the connection between the American people and the elected officials who are ostensibly in office to represent them, Democrats in the Senate are urging President Obama to bypass Congress altogether in order to raise America’s debt ceiling so that the country can go on spending money it doesn’t have for lots of things it doesn’t need. This is, also ostensibly, so that the economic "recovery" can continue and so that "hardworking Americans" aren’t hurt by the "irresponsible machinations" of those loony Republicans who are (ostensibly, yet again) calling for fiscal responsibility.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated to the president that he should use "any lawful steps" to "ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a global economic crisis." Oh, how ironic for politicians to be talking about broken promises as though they were anything more than the stepping stones along the yellow-brick road to election to high office and a lifestyle of largesse thereafter.
Yet that’s what’s being batted around. Republicans reacted to Reid’s attempt to move government further from the hands of the American people by not backing down in their insistence that any discussion of a debt ceiling increase should also include talks of spending cuts. Noted Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, "The Democrat leadership hiding under their desks and hoping the president will find a way around the law on the nation's maxed-out credit card is not only the height of irresponsibility, but also a guarantee that our national debt crisis will only get worse." That is, to put it succinctly, exactly correct.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated to the president that he should use "any lawful steps" to "ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a global economic crisis." Oh, how ironic for politicians to be talking about broken promises as though they were anything more than the stepping stones along the yellow-brick road to election to high office and a lifestyle of largesse thereafter.
Yet that’s what’s being batted around. Republicans reacted to Reid’s attempt to move government further from the hands of the American people by not backing down in their insistence that any discussion of a debt ceiling increase should also include talks of spending cuts. Noted Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, "The Democrat leadership hiding under their desks and hoping the president will find a way around the law on the nation's maxed-out credit card is not only the height of irresponsibility, but also a guarantee that our national debt crisis will only get worse." That is, to put it succinctly, exactly correct.