NYT: Governing by Blackmail

[Scuba]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/governing-by-blackmail.html?_r=0

SUPPOSE President Obama announced: Unless Republicans agree to my proposal for gun control, I will use my authority as commander in chief to scuttle one aircraft carrier a week in the bottom of the ocean.

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Today, we have a similar situation, except that it’s a band of extremist House Republicans who are deliberately sabotaging America’s economy and damaging our national security — all in hopes of gaining leverage on unrelated issues.

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The stakes rise as we approach the debt limit and the risk of default — which the Treasury Department notes could have an impact like that of the 2008 financial crisis and “has the potential to be catastrophic.” Astonishingly, Republican hard-liners see that potential catastrophe as a source of bargaining power in a game of extortion: We don’t want anything to happen to this fine American economy as we approach the debt limit, so you’d better meet our demands.

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In this situation, it strikes a false note for us as journalists to cover the crisis simply by quoting each side as blaming the other. That’s a false equivalency.

[mnhtnbb]

1. Hello!

[Augiedog]

2. Insurrection without guns, yet.

The current attempt by the dirtbag faction of the shit pile party is nothing less than an attempt to over throw the constitutional authority of the President because they hate his being black, that and the fact that any success on the part of a Blackman is seen as a direct threat to their white supremacy especially if it is a black President of the United States. This is a race war without guns, so far. The republicraps are quite willing to wreck the country to further their racist ideology, never forget that their heroes are Jesse Helms, George Wallace and Ronald Raygun.
For example, if George Bush had killed Osama Bin Laden the buttuglians would have declared Washington D.C. A state and named it Bushland. This is nothing more than the "KKK goes to Washington".

[Botany]

3. Great Quote

"In a household, husbands and wives disagree passionately about high-stakes issues
like how to raise children. But normal people do not announce that if their spouse
does not give in, they will break all the windows in the house."

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This shut down is costing $300 million per day ... I never want to hear a republican talk about the
debt again.

[99Forever]

4. The "Well no shit, Sherlock" line of the article:

"In this situation, it strikes a false note for us as journalists to cover the crisis simply by quoting each side as blaming the other. That’s a false equivalency."

Perhaps your fellow "journalists" should take notice.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. K&R! "That’s a false equivalency."