The Democrat rhetoric has already begun regarding what they see as being the need for once again 'raising' the debt limit. As always, the Democrat philosophy is one of lie loudly and lie often and it is once again being put out there on full display. But because there is never any desire, whatsoever, on the part of Democrats to reduce spending, except on things like national defense, they are already working very hard to paint the Republicans as being the ones who will be at fault for what may happen should there not be a hike in debt limit. To the Democrat Party, the continuing fiscal mess that we find ourselves in, and that they played the biggest role in creating, is nothing more than something to now be used as a campaign weapon against the opposition. While they lie and attempt to blame everyone but themselves for the mess, millions of Americans are hurting. But that seems to be much less important than them getting re-elected. Electoral success is the standard by which everything is measured for Democrats!
So, now we have that perennial gas bag, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who just this past Wednesday, launched into what has become the typical level of Democrat hysterics and once again sounding like the proverbial broken record. Not raising the debt ceiling late this year simply is “not an option,” he declared. Addressing a weekly press briefing, Steny once again set out to disparage the opposition as he 'predicted' that House Republicans would hold middle-class tax cuts “hostage” in any negotiations over once again raising the debt ceiling and avoiding what he described as the so-called “fiscal cliff.” “Hopefully we will deal with the debt limit extension in a responsible way,” he said. “And by that I mean everybody – everybody – in the leadership, Republican and Democratic, knows that there is not an option but to extend the debt limit.” That all sounds pretty good, even rational, but it's all a bunch of bull sh!t. Democrats, as usual, have no intention of behaving in a responsible way. If they did, we wouldn't be where we are!
Sounding like the pathetic hypocrite that we all know he pretty much is, Hoyer said he was “hopeful” that Republicans would not use the debt limit increase, which will not be necessary until sometime this winter, as leverage to enact their priorities. “I am hopeful that the Republican leadership – and we will join them if in fact they are prepared to do this – will deal with the debt limit extension in a way that does not create the lack of confidence, the confrontation, [and] the gridlock that almost led America to defaulting on its debts for the first time in my service here.” Hopeful? Old Steny says he is hopeful? Look, if there is one thing I think we all should be able to recognize by now, it's the fact that you can't compromise with Democrats. They have no interest in compromise and therefore make it impossible. Compromise is always a one way street for slugs like Hoyer. He talks a fine line, but like all Democrats, he's doing nothing more than lying through his freakin teeth. Hopeful, my ASS!
Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has already made it quite clear that he plans to use the debt limit increase as leverage to pursue further spending cuts. “I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and reforms greater than the debt limit increase,” he said in a recent speech. Boehner accomplished that goal last August in debt ceiling negotiations with the White House, securing cuts in excess of the debt ceiling increase. However, he believes more is possible this time. “This is the only avenue I see right now to force the elected leadership of this country to solve our structural fiscal imbalance,” he said in the May 15 address to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. “We can make the bold cuts and reforms necessary to meet this principle, and we must.” I'm curious though how the Speaker intends to respond to what will most assuredly be all manner of juvenile election year accusations that will be coming for the likes of old Steny. I hope he's arming up with a good response, because he's going to need it.
'Gas Bag' Hoyer harped on what has become the standard party line for Democrat, that Republicans will look to be holding middle-class tax cuts “hostage” to their other priorities, such as extending tax cuts for the wealthy and cutting spending. “The Republican agenda again appears to be placing the middle-class tax cuts as hostage for the continued tax cuts on the very wealthiest in America, and we think that’s unjustified,” he droned. Hoyer said Republicans had an “all-or-nothing” attitude that would make coming negotiations over the debt ceiling all the harder. He hinted that Democrats were willing to compromise on some issues. “The all-or-nothing attitude that the Republicans continue to take is going to assure, I think, that we don’t have agreement. Again, some conservatives will apparently be happy about that because they’re not looking for compromise or agreement, they’re looking for confrontation.” Does anyone really buy this crap anymore? Hoyer's hinting that Democrats would be willing to compromise is nothing short of a fairytale.
He did provide one little caveat however, saying that any 'compromise' would come “after the election.” He went on to say, “I believe one of the most important things that members of Congress ought to be focused on – and the country needs to be focused on – is trying to prepare for this fiscal cliff and do so in a rational, thoughtful, [and] consensus-creating way so that after the election we will have the opportunity to replace and substitute a big, bold, balanced plan for what otherwise will be a economy-threatening, jobs-threatening, end-of-the-year scenario.” Democrats like Hoyer love to portray themselves as being the only sane ones in the room, but it's just the opposite that's true. They're the ones who have positioned us on the edge of that "fiscal cliff" in the first place. They are the obstinate ones, they are the ones who consistently demonstrate a 'my way or the highway' mentality when it comes to how they choose to define 'compromise'. And hopefully there are enough people who will be able to see through all of this silly Democrat rhetoric.
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