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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
the main reason is that we did not cut enough spending and/or increase taxes (or as the dems called it, revenue increase). Both parties failed no matter what you believe.
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Nonsense. Obama and Boehner made a deal with those very revenue increases and $4 trillion in spending you speak of, the Dem leadership signed off on it in the House and Senate. Boehner couldn't get it through his Republican House due to the idiots in the Tea Party. The GOP queered that deal. Not the Dems.
So no matter what you believe, or how much you want to blame Obama for being weak (and yes, he is a weak negotiator here) the deal was there, the deal was done,
the Republicans screwed the deal up and have sole ownership of this. Along with having
sole GOP ownership of making a routine debt ceiling rise into a two-months-long political circus.
The Dems didn't obstruct the debt ceiling increase. The GOP did.
The Dems didn't tie paying our past debt into a nonsensical political circus about future spending. The GOP did.
The Dems didn't refuse to raise taxes or cut loopholes. The GOP did.
The Dems weren't the ones that publicly said that not raising the debt ceiling wouldn't cause any problems, that it was a lie that it mattered, causing the world to think we are crazy and irresponsible about our debt obligations. The GOP did.
The Dems agreed to spending cuts twice as large as the final offer, including entitlements, but the GOP refused it.
The two parties are not the same. Blaming both parties equally just doesn't have any validity in truth.
And the Republicans get extra credit for being irresponsibly stupid, and laying off 94,000 people and costing us $250 million in lost revenues, while holding out for 16.5 million in silly cuts, on their way out of town to vacation
BTW, two Dem senators - no Republicans - showed up to pass a bill that extends the FAA for another month, until Congress gets back to town. So at least those people get to go back to work until this is settled. Thanks to the Democrats.