ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEBT CEILING CRISIS?

"The debt showdown isn't just the dominant issue in Washington this summer – it's virtually the only one getting any attention in the nation's capital." --Julie Pace for Huffpo

Well, we need jobs! And the whole debt ceiling discussion is a non-issue, anyway. We raise the dept ceiling roughly once a year and have since JFK. Republicans voted to raise it 7 times under Bush and had no problem with it then. So what's changed? Obama is a democrat so the GOP makes a huge stink over this since they've painted him as such a foreign-born, socialist, muslim negro loser that they can't possibly agree with anything he routine safeguard proposes. The whole economy will collapse on August 2nd if we don't raise it. Even most republicans, who hope for a bad economy in order to win back the White House, don't want this catastrophe.

Oh, but the tea party republicans are so hell-bent on spending cuts that they don't care if we default on our credit. Just like they don't care if a woman has been raped by a relative--if they had their way she'd still have to carry that child with no hope for an abortion. The tea party is a reckless bunch of extremists who represent the absolute craziest fundamentalist positions to be appear in DC for decades. Sure, some of the more celebrated loonies didn't win--like Christine O'Donnell the pro-abstinence witch and Sharron Angle, who advocated exercising her "Second Amendment remedies" (ie guns) to "take Harry Reid out" if she lost. But the ones who won aren't much less extreme. Now the mainstream republicans are being forced to attempt reasoning with them over the debt ceiling. But how do you reason with a madman?

If Obama is making the GOP look unreasonable that's fine with me. But why is he even entertaining any spending cuts the republicans propose if passing the debt ceiling raise is necessary to avoid chaos? Why isn't he holding press conferences saying that any party who wants the economy to crumble is retarded? And why did Obama take his 14th Amendment option off the table when it could override this petty Congress? As the two sides quibble over something which must inevitably be done, we the people lose out. They could be working on creating jobs, for chrissakes! That's what we desperately need! And economists claim that even a discussion of not paying our debts sends such shudders down the back of the global markets that our already precarious economy could start suffering now, even if the ceiling raise passes!



If you didn't vote in the mid-term elections, then YOU are partially to blame for this mess. Americans generally aren't too interested in mid-terms. But when movements as ugly and irresponsible as the tea party are mobilizing, only a fool wouldn't recognize how dangerous it is to lose interest and not vote. Especially the segments of our society who who be penalized the most by a tea party win. But defying sense, many gays sat out the in the mid-terms because they felt Obama wasn't doing enough to advance their causes. In fact, gays even trended republican in 2010. How clever! You sure taught him a lesson by making republicans stronger and more conservative--to reduce the chances that your rights will ever advance. Try to find a pro-gay tea partier. (Or republican, for that matter.) And you got your DADT repeal that you were so peeved about soon after the mid-terms.

Women sat out this one out because many were confused by the issues. So they allowed the tea party, which frowns on their rights, to win. The dunce Sharon Angle wanted to ban all abortions yet nonsensically frowned on the fact that others' maternity leave forced her insurance to go up. Are you confused now, ladies? I sure am. By you!

Many youth, who came out in droves to support Obama's election, dropped out in the mid-terms as well. It was hoped that the Obama campaign, with his emphasis on social media, had awakened this sleeping giant. But not for long! I guess no one running in the mid-terms had Obama's rockstar appeal to galvanize them into action again. I hope they realize that while a shocking number of them don't have jobs, they sat on their asses and let the tea party score wins nationwide to advocate that more jobs won't be created through spending and unemployment benefits will be slashed or simply end. Too bad Kim Kardashian and Snooki weren't running or the mid-terms might have spoken more to our youth.

Many Americans were simply dissatisfied with all branches of the government so they didn't vote. Earth to you: elections are how our democracy functions. No opinion is expressed when you give up your patriotic responsibility to acquaint yourselves with the candidates' positions and vote.

SO TO THOSE OF YOU LAZY MORONS WHO HAVE FUCKED THINGS UP SO ROYALLY BY NOT VOTING, CAN YOU NOW DO DOUBLE DUTY AND TRY TO GET THIS COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK SO THAT WE DON'T ALL HAVE TO SUFFER SO MUCH FROM YOUR STUPIDITY? YOU DON'T EVEN STAND FOR OR UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN ISSUES! NO WONDER THE COUNTRY'S A MESS IF THE FUCKING VOTERS ARE.

"People ask me, 'What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?' Well, that's not my job as a U.S. senator." –Sharron Angle, May 14, 2010