None of this would be happening if the Republican leadership

[Raven]

had negotiated with the Obama Administration in good faith on the debt ceiling and had stayed in Washington to work on financial reform instead of going on vacation.

None of this would be happening if it were not for a group of Republican Tea Party Destructionists in Congress who have used your retirement account to prove a demented ideological point. They have stolen your hard earned money. They might as well have picked your pocket and they are gleeful about it.

This is what I am saying to my friends.

[msongs]

1. yes indeed nobody in the democratic party has any responsibility for this at all lol nt

[Raven]

4. So, you want to blame the Democrats for this?

[C_U_L8R]

2. It sure smells like a financial coup d'etat

when the smoke clears, these right-wingers should be keelhauled

[Armstead]

5. The Democrats will never clear the smoke

Not all Democrats...but the corporate conservative lackeys in change will help the GOP blow the smoke around

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[lame54]

6. Or if Obama had let the Bush tax cuts lapse...

oh yeah - end the wars

[lpbk2713]

7. And as long as we are stating the obvious ...

None of this would be happening if the rethuglicans had not gotten away with stealing the election eleven years ago.

[Poll_Blind]

8. It's just nonsense to imply Democrats, but especially the President, didn't court this...

...by enabling the Repukes. Obama has been making deals with the Repukes behind Democratic Leadership's back, just like in December of 2010. And both times it's blown up in his face, but most importantly our faces.

However, the Repukes literally make the President's fuckups pale in comparison with the ease with which they were willing to drive the country off a cliff. Cantor, Boehner, McConnell...all those guys are right up to the edge of the definition of treasonous behavior. Especially Cantor.

But few have clean hands in this and I don't think it helps to assert otherwise.

PB

[Drale]

9. None of this would be happening if

Stupid Americans had not voted Terrorists into office.

[MadHound]

10. None of this would have happened if last December,

Obama had pushed for raising the debt ceiling during the last generated crisis instead of caving early and relying on the misguided notion that somehow that when it came to the debt ceiling the 'Pugs would be responsible. Lots of people saw this coming way back when, why not the President.

[pansypoo53219]

11. IF they were open to RAISING TAXES + no tax breaks

like on private jets. BUT THEY LOVE GROVER MORE THAN AMERICA. and we are living in aynrandistan.

[ellenfl]

12. none of this would be happening if repulican leaders would

lead instead of follow. the talking heads love to slam obama for his lack of leadership. OUR talking heads should be hitting right back showing the repub leadership FOLLOWING the tea baggers.

ellen fl