We are finally to see some daylight out of the Blame the Democrats, and Give Republicans a Free Pass corporate media narrative that grips the corporate media. As the infighting between Cantor and Boehner renders Republicans in the House unable to govern even as the nation lurches towards default. Far from showing effective negotiation strategy, you have Republicans retreating from their demands to cut the deficit, and are instead pleading for a smaller, shorter deficit deal that amounts to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it drowns in debt.
The fact of the matter is that Republicans need huge deficits to justify their starve the beast to death idealogy. If the government is solvent, their small government, no regulation rhetoric is exposed as empty rhetoric.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-blame-both-sides-for-debt-impasse/2011/07/11/gIQA0XDg9H_story.html?hpid=z3
Washington has many lazy habits, and one of the worst is a reflexive tendency to see equivalence where none exists. Hence the nonsense, being peddled by politicians and commentators who should know better, that “both sides” are equally at fault in the deadlocked talks over the debt ceiling.
This is patently false. The truth is that Democrats have made clear they are open to a compromise deal on budget cuts and revenue increases. Republicans have made clear they are not.
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Yet the “both sides are to blame” narrative somehow gained currency after Boehner announced Saturday that House Republicans would not support any increase in revenue, period. A false equivalence was drawn between the absolute Republican rejection of “revenue-positive” tax reform and the less-than-absolute Democratic opposition to “benefit cuts” in Medicare and Social Security.
The bogus story line is that the radical right-wing base of the GOP and the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party are equally to blame for sinking the deal.
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