Michele Bachmann distances herself from reality
“First, the debt ceiling should not be raised, under any circumstances. No deal could be good enough, Bachmann said, to induce her to do so. “I won’t raise taxes. I will reduce spending and I won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling,” she said. “And I have the titanium spine to see it through.”
“Second, the United States will not default. “I want to state unequivocally I think for the world as well as the markets as well as for the American people, I have no doubt that we will not lose the full faith and credit of the United States,” Bachmann said.
“Huh? Bachmann accused President Obama of employing “scare tactics” in warning of “catastrophic results for our economy.” But what do she and others in the titanium spine caucus think is going to happen when the United States can’t pay its bills?...”
Cassi Creek: The divorce from reality among the teavangelists and the voters who elected them is incredible. Bachmann argues that there will be no consequence to default. I believe that she can’t equate the huge numbers of foreclosures and repossessions we see among our citizens each day to the national ability to pay our debts and obligations on time. How does she, or any other teavangelist manage to acquire pubic office with so little awareness of what serving the nation and the public entails?
I spent 15 minutes or so on a Facebook page created for our congressional representative, Roe. Of the 25 or so comments on it, none was from people who were cognizant enough to call him to task for lying to the public, for selling out to energy companies, or to following the teavangelist pattern. I refuse to approve of his site in order to gain the privilege of posting on it. I will continue as before, by email, by fax to his offices, and by using other methods to deliver my arguments.
I have an ever-increasing dislike for Roe. The electronic responses I’ve received from his offices are merely a set of pre-programmed responses triggered by key words in my submissions. There is nothing unique or personal in them. Nor, beyond his name and his unveiled hatred for Obama, is there any truth in his responses.
I’ve worked with too many physicians like him to think that they ever place anything but their own ego at the top of their priorities. The combination of an OB/Gyn and politician can only deliver an egotistical nightmare that believes its MD also equips one with a PhD in all other disciplines. Too many people are intimidated by physicians to challenge them. I understand the language, have common educational background, and worked in an equally demanding field/practice.
The single word that most accurately describes Roe is REMF. Feel free to use it when addressing or referring to him.
Among the teavangelists and their voter base, there is a deep and increasing inability to view the chasm that separates them from the portion of the populace that is driven more by hope of salvaging the nation than by hatred and greed. The rate of march toward the abyss is gaining velocity and, like any mob, is being pushed from behind by those too unaware to see the disaster waiting ahead. The bodies are beginning to fall under the feet of the uncaring, unthinking mob leaders. They’ve served their corporate masters well as demagogues and are now expendable. If they are found crumpled and broken at the bottom of the political/financial pit, they won’t be there alone. They’ll have dragged millions of the merely stupid over the edge with them. Unfortunately, they will overload the ground beneath them and more millions, undeserving of this disastrous end, will be crushed with them in the financial and social collapse. The clock is counting minutes and the ground is cracking at our feet.
Shabbat Shalom
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