Erin Burnett: S&P Says Reid Plan Will Avoid Downgrade, Boehner Plan Will Not

[UrbScotty]

Run time: 00:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DKZewGC70c   Posted on YouTube: July 26, 2011 By YouTube Member: SenateDemocrats Views on YouTube: 55   Posted on DU: July 26, 2011 By DU Member: UrbScotty Views on DU: 2258

 

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[timefortherevolution]

2. Bohner doesn't care about an S&P rating. It's all about appeasing the rich.

[Moostache]

3. K&R (and hope that many others see and hear this)

The Reid plan is clearly the "lesser-of-two-evils" approach (just like anything that he puts his name on in general...health care, his re-election in '10, the Bush-Obama tax cuts, THIS...)- where the hell are the revenue increases that are always HINTED at and never delivered???; but that being said, this circus MUST end already.

The mere fact that Republicans could say only three words in the mid-terms of '10 (jobs...jobs...jobs) and are now incapable of even remembering those words is proof positive that giving them an inch in this current faux-debate/blackmail/shakedown will only further encourage them in 6 months. The Boehner plan is simply another way of saying "I already got your house and most of your retirement money, now gimme your wallet too and I'll be back in 6 months for your car and dental fillings"...

Sadly, our fearful "leaders" in the Democratic Party will capitulate here just as they have in every other meaningful fight over the last decade +....we gave up ALL OF THESE in one way or another:

- Florida '00,
- Iraq '03,
- Ohio '04,
- Bush Tax cuts,
- Medicare Part D,
- Afghanistan habitual war (even AFTER Osama was finished off....btw heard anything about "keeping us safe" NOW??)
- Health Care Reform that actually controls costs and improves outcomes
- Wall Street Reform that ends "tbtf" and actually re-regulates in action and not words only
- Bailouts of banks and banksters, evictions for their victims and the defrauded
- Stimulus (that became more than 40% tax cuts despite the FACT that tax cuts DO NOT PAY FOR THEMSELVES and DO NOT CREATE ANY FUCKING JOBS WHATSOEVER - if they did, wouldn't this be the greatest epoch of prosperity in history???
- Ending the foolhardy Bush-Obama tax cuts (instead of ending them we co-own them now and worse than that we negotiated with the current right wing zealots and domestic terrorists that have brought us to the precipice of collapase to simply take MORE hostages to get what they want this time...last time it was unemployment benefits, this time its the whole fucking economy....at this rate,mark my words and watch....next time it will be threats of nuclear weapon "accidents" in blue states...

Taxes
Wars
Criminal government
Criminal businesses
Criminal record on human rights

The list of things we have watched our "leaders" hand over to the bomb-throwing lunatics of the anti-intellectual and morally bankrupt right is depressing and actually has me wondering if a total collapse and subsequent revolution / re-partitioning of the continent would really be so bad long term. Yes, in the short term it would be horrific and the losses would be incalculable...but long term? Maybe not so bad if the nation splits into Fundie asshats on one side and rational human beings on the other.

[Beavker]

4. K&R