Remember the great debt ceiling battle of 2009? Remember how the Tea Parties got into the fracas and we were all sending tea bags to Congress? Remember how Obama, Reid and Pelosi were all in a snit because those nasty Tea Party members, those racists from hell, had the audacity to tell our government that we'd had enough of their high-spending, devil-may-care attitudes?
Just four years ago today, we were approaching a $12 trillion debt ceiling and the Republicans were vowing to dig in and respond to Americans who were scared stiff and sick and tired of it. And today, we're at $17 trillion and looking at the same old question: When, oh when are we going to get our heads out of our butts? But, one thing has changed. I heard it Wednesday night on Fox, when Utah Senator Mike Lee and Texas Senator Ted Cruz were on Hannity. Now, it seems, we're ready to fund anything and everything, even the programs we don't like, in order to defund ObamaCare.
From that, I gather we're ready to raise the debt ceiling right now to $20 trillion and let Obama fund abortions just for the ability to delay ObamaCare funding for another year? Or, is the real cat out of the bag, that the Republicans are just simply ready to raise the debt ceiling again period, and all of the rest of the story is merely a song and dance, dog and pony show?
I forget who it was, but someone at the time was proclaiming in 2009 that by the time Obama gets out of office in 2016, we'd be in debt $22 trillion. "That will never happen," stormed Boehner. Let's see, $19 trillion this year, $21 trillion next year and $23 trillion in 2016? And the audacity of Standard & Poor's to downgrade our national credit rating because we can't get control of our spending. No wonder Obama's suing them: They spoke the truth!
But, here we go again. Who cares if our kids and grandkids and great grandkids have to learn how to speak Chinese, right? Why should we care? Hell, while we're at it, let's even get rid of sequestering.
I don't know about you, but I'm in the kitchen counting my teabags again.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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