The White House and its press corps have come to a consensus that the recent shutdown/debt limit debate was a "manufactured crisis"--the implication being that it was manufactured by Republicans. That is untrue--first because President Barack Obama and the Democrats could easily have averted a crisis if they had been willing to compromise, and second because forcing such confrontations has been their strategy since 2011.
The debt limit was not a priority for the Tea Party until the Democrats made it one. In the 2010 elections, the subject almost never came up. There was certainly no plan to shut down the government if the Republicans did not get their way. Rather, interest in these confrontations came from the Democrats and the Obama administration, who saw the 1995-6 crises as models for how to defeat congressional Republicans.
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2 comments:
Since when is the "compromise" equivalent to destroying an entire bill that was passed through majority vote in congress, signed by the pres., and upheld by the supreme court?
It wasn't upheld by the supreme court as it was written, it was twisted and edit to be a tax to pass. This is where I fail to understand how I am forced by the government to mandatorily purchase a product with my tax money.
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