The "Blame Game"

The “Blame Game”

This absolutely amazes me! The ‘progressives’ cannot or will not accept their responsibility in Standard & Poor’s downgrading of U.S. government debt! I guess when your thought process is impeded by ‘progressive’ “thinking”, you cannot process what is so obvious to the average American who has to live within his/her budget … In fact, the ‘progressive’ “thinking” won’t even allow them to create a budget, much less live within that budget!

First they blamed Bush for everything – Hell, they’re still blaming Bush for most of the economic woes of the nation! Then it was the Republicans “holding America ‘hostage’” by wanting to cut spending; then it was Mr. Boehner’s fault for not being able to convince his party members to raise the debt ceiling and grandma was gonna die! The ‘progressives’ are very astute using the “fear factor” when they want to do something the People do not want and the “lamestream” media reported the fears but not the truth and many bought into it and agreed to raise the debt ceiling as long as there were significant cuts in spending.

Standard & Poor’s warned Congress and the President that it was going to require at least $4 trillion reduction in debt to retain the AAA credit rating; I don’t know how much clearer Standard & Poor’s could have been – How can you not know the difference between $2 trillion and $4 trillion? Apparently, the ‘progressives’ and neocons couldn’t because they approved less than $2 trillion and when the “smoke & mirrors” was evaluated, it turns out it would be less than $1 trillion in reduction over 10 years! Now that’s the way to save the economy – 10 years! What a joke! And it is not funny!

After the “shock” of Standard & Poor’s action, did the ‘progressives’ say, “Golly, I guess we should have been more serious about reducing the debt.”? Or, “Gee, we didn’t think S&P was really serious, so we have to go back to the table and do it right!”? NO! It was time to kick in the “Blame Game” again, so it was the Tea Party’s fault that S&P took away the AAA rating! Even Sen. DeMint called that pitiful; I call it pathetic! And, apparently, they’re getting flack from others so now who do they blame?

…. This occurred because S&P ‘joined’ the Tea Party and because the S&P used “bad data” in arriving at their conclusion to dropping the rating! The Standard & Poor’s, according to Tim “Turbo-Tax” Geithner, counted $2 trillion twice in their figures. This from the expert practitioner of “funny math” – It’s almost laughable! Almost. But this bad joke isn’t going to hurt the government at all – It is going to impact American families with higher interest rates and, probably, hyper-inflation! Now the ‘progressively’ controlled U.S. Senate is “probing the S&P downgrade”, so expect more of the same “Blame Game”! And get prepared for a very bumpy ride!

And the ‘neocons’ are, by no means, blameless in this debacle! It was a concentrated effort by all Liberty groups and the American People to get the Congress to hold the line and not raise the debt ceiling! Instead, we were all pressing for them to slash spending to avoid even hitting the ceiling! Mr. Boehner and Company are incapable of leading as winners and half of those elected in 2010 as Tea Party candidates folded like a House of Cards when it came down to the vote! Instead of listening to the People, they elected to listen and follow their ‘leadership’ into the abyss like lemmings!

I find the American People blameless in this because we were right when  we demanded they not raise the debt ceiling; we were right when pressured them to slash spending; and we are right demanding they follow the Constitution! What they refuse to accept is the American People are smarter than they are! We know that if we were to go to the bank and ask for a bigger credit line so we could charge 40¢ of every dollar we spend, they would refuse us because that is unsustainable! We are applying household budgeting principles to the federal budget and those in D.C. are incapable of doing simple math; they’d rather use funny math!

I did not blame the 2 major parties because it is pointless to blame them; they are without principles and that would let the offending politicians off the hook for their responsibility of the votes they cast! It is not the Republican Party’s “fault” that Doc Hastings voted for this bad legislation; it is Doc’s fault he voted for it! It is not the Democratic Party’s “fault” Sen. Harry “Bullet-Train” Reid is an idiot and voted for this bad legislation; it’s Harry “Bullet-Train” Reid’s fault he voted for the bad bill! (It might be his parents fault that he’s an idiot!)

Doc Hastings is being taken behind the woodshed for his vote; not the Republican Party!

We must continue to hold the individual politician responsible for his votes and if he’s not doing the job, we must replace him or her! It is the only way we can change “business as usual” in D.C.!