With America eight days away from default and economic armageddon, there is currently very little hope in sight. While the tea party Republicans are dead set on default and John Boehner remains afraid to stand up to them, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth is once again a voice of reason on the House floor. Here’s Yarmuth from late last week, doing all he can at this point:
Meanwhile, his Democratic House colleague from Kentucky, Ben Chandler, isn’t really saying a thing. In his defense, he’s been very busy gutting the Consumer Protection Agency and cutting aid to starving children in Africa, so cut him some slack. (Oh, and proposing something called the Blue Dog Balanced Budget Amendment. No, seriously.)
And just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, here’s Mitch McConnell’s speech on the Senate floor today. As you can see in this mind-blowing display of projection, McConnell blames someone of using the debt ceiling to play electoral politics. Here’s a hint: It’s not himself or the tea party:
Those Glenn Beck survival kits are going fast, get one while you still can…
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In speaking of ideology, it might be helpful to identify the source of Republican, conservative and teabagger ideology.
It comes from Ayn Rand. She says that government and market should be separate; that greed is good and that selfishness is a virtue.
Ayn’s a professed atheist and rejects anything having to do with the Abrahamic covenant. That basically says that it’s to our mutual benefit to work for the good of all. This is sometimes called the common good. In the Constitution it’s the general welfare.
Democrats need to say that it’s to our mutual benefit to take care of the least of these via Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.