McConnell revokes US citizenships

"The American people have spoken and we did what they said they wanted" crowed Mitch McConnell following the debt ceiling extortion measures passed on Tuesday. (Can a person with a waddle that big crow or would he just gobble? I may need to follow up on that at a later date. I digress.) With that statement, he apparently has revoked the citizenship of 67% of the people who populate this country. As late as July 29, polls showed that a majority  of Americans wanted a balanced approach to solving our debt crisis that included revenue increases along with compassionate and carefully determined spending cuts.

Speaker Boehner has proclaimed that he got 98% of what he wanted in this deal. And the Dow dropped like a rock on that 98%. So the question must be asked, will the Republicans, and especially the Tea Party component of that party, take responsibility for what is to come? Will they take credit for an increase in unemployment? Will they proudly prance around in front of the House and declare success when the economy reenters a recession? When the next bridge falls and kills a US citizen will they scream MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? Oh wait, McConnell just shaded his odds that a person killed isn't really an American since 67% of us are just visiting. They may even be undocumented so that wouldn't make it merely ok, it would make it a "job creator".

With elected officials on the right saying things like Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA)  "Today, I introduced a unique bill that goes in a completely different direction than everything else we’ve been hearing out of Washington. It would force politicians to start practicing what they’ve been preaching by lowering the debt ceiling from $14.3 trillion back down to $13 trillion."  Or Michele Bachmann with ""I will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. It goes completely contrary to common sense and how I grew up in Iowa. So here I am in Congress watching these people borrow more money that we don't have so that my children can be further indebted. We have to deal with the economic reality and I have the will and I have the courage to see this through. I'm Michele Bachmann and I approve this message." Combined with so many saying that not increasing the debt limit would somehow be beneficial to this economy, it shows that they are either incredibly stupid or so ideologically twisted that they would rather blow us all up and try to clean it up afterward than actually listen to the people and do the right thing.