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Tuesday Open Thread [9.24.13]
“The only real way to repeal the healthcare law is to win elections,” – The Wall Street Journal.
Indeed. But the GOP has taught us that elections have no consequences, and that an opposition party must oppose a President’s entire agenda absolutely. The President can never me allowed to do his job or see his nominees or policies enacted. So, if a miracle happens and a Republican gets elected President in the next few generations, as unlikely as that is, he or she should expect Democrats to treat him or her as Republicans have treated Obama.
Meanwhile, Ezra Klein shows us why this financial showdown shutdown default drama in 2013 is different than what occurred in 2011.
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Monday Open Thread 9.23.13
Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post writes Obama must not yield on Obamacare, debt ceiling or shutdown:
I happen to believe that Obamacare is a great accomplishment, providing access to medical insurance to millions of Americans who lack it and bringing the nation much closer to universal health care. It’s an imperfect law, to be sure, but it could be made much better with the kind of constructive tinkering that responsible leaders performed on Social Security and Medicare.
Even if Obamacare were tremendously flawed, however, it would be wrong to let a bunch of extremist ideologues hold the country hostage in this manner. If Republicans want to repeal the reforms, they should win the Senate and the presidency. If not, they’re welcome to pout and sulk all they want — but not to use extortion to get their way.
I agree. And at this point, I am fully preparing to have both the government shut down and have America default. And the President must too. I am ready for anything that ends the Modern Republican Party once and for all. And by Modern Republican Party I am referring to every Republican who does not agree with former Republican Senator Judd Gregg in his comments inside, and of course everyone who describes themselves as a Tea Partier.
Saturday Open Thread 9.21.13
the Weekly Addresses from the President and the Governor, plus West Wing Week.
A Point One Improvement.
After several months of going up, the Delaware unemployment rate finally went in the right direction (i.e. down) this past month, though just barely.
Delaware’s unemployment rate in August fell to 7.3 percent, down from 7.4 percent in July, according to Delaware’s labor department, which released its Monthly Labor Review this morning. There were 32,100 unemployed Delaware residents in August, down from 32,600 in July, and the same as one year ago, when the unemployment rate was listed at 7.2 percent, according to the report. Non-farm employment in Delaware was listed at 424,900, up from 424,800 in July, and up by 7,300 jobs from August 2012.
Friday Open Thread 9.20.13
Noam calls the White House thinking about helping the GOP pass a clean CR a cave. Well, no, it is a not a cave. A cave would be to delay Obamacare. That is what the GOP “compromise” position is. If he agrees to that, the President is caving. What the President has insisted on regarding the budget was a CR that eliminates the sequester. So these are the positions: 1) The GOP wants an Obamacare Repeal for a CR and 2) the President wants a Sequester Repeal for a CR. Passing a clean CR with no repeals is not a cave. It is a compromise.
Question of the Day
We have a hostage situation. Some criminals are threatening to shoot hostages unless the hostages’ loved ones pay the ransom. So the question is, who is to blame for this hostage situation, the hostages and their loved ones who refuse to pay the ransom, or the criminals with the gun?
Take the poll
Thursday Open Thread 9.19.13
So Speaker… and I use that term loosely … Boehner decided this week to have the Republican Party commit suicide. Unfortunately, the suicide plan is to have the country drive towards a cliff and jump off. And since he is the driver and we are all his passengers, and the doors are locked, we have to go with him. So it is more of a non-mutual murder-suicide pact. The government, much of it anyway, will run out of money at the end of the month when the new fiscal year (October 1) starts. Eighteen days after that, the government will run out of borrowing authority when the debt ceiling is reached. So Speaker Boehner had a choice: he could have passed continuing resolutions to fund the government at last year’s budget levels for a certain period of time and have that pass the House with Democratic and Republican votes, as he has done before. Or he could surrender to the fringe tea party caucus in the House and demand that any continuing resolution and any debt ceiling increase be paired with a repeal or defunding of Obamacare.
This demand is insane and ignorant. It shows how mind blowingly stupid Teabagger Republicans are. For the funding of the Affordable Care Act is pretty much already taken care of when the original law was passed. Indeed, you will have to repeal the entire law to defund it. And as long as President Obama is alive and serving as President, the law will not be repealed. A government shutdown will not stop it. The money has already been spent and insurance premiums are already plunging across the country, meaning that the law is already paying for itself.
The Teabaggers, including Jim DeMint and Steven King and Ted Cruz, are all operating under the assumption that the President will cave and repeal his own law. Their entire plan is predicated on that assumption. And that might be a good, thought still very risky, assumption if Obamacare polled badly and the public wanted the Republicans to do everything they can to repeal or defund it. But that is not the case.
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