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Country First
Author: Raine
Date: 07/14/2011 12:53:50
Some days, words fail me. Today may not one of those times. Politico reports:
I was going to write a blog today trying to delineate the difference between politics, activism and governance. I find that I may have to put that subject off for a bit, because to be quite honest with you, it would be hard to describe what Eric Cantor is doing as politics. It's certainly not governing. It's the same with John Boehner, who appears to have totally checked out of any negotiations here.
There are many variables to this particular story, one that seems to have been started by Eric Cantor himself, as The Hill initially reported yesterday. Cantor told reporters the President was "agitated" and "stormed out of a meeting" -- You know, in other words, he was an angry black man who is just downright unreasonable. We've seen this dog whistle tactic before, often from the likes of Eric Cantor.
Bob Wrote yesterday about how the GOP has allowed themselves to be painted into a corner. It was a wonderful piece about how politics works and how the GOP doesn't seem to know how to govern. We've seen a lack of governance for a while, partly due to party loyalty, but when we reach a point that our credit rating may be downgraded, enough is enough. The Markets are already starting to lag just based on this warning. This is not party politics anymore, this is class warfare. It's incredibly dangerous. When ideology trumps common sense -- that tends to turn into the fanatical. The Tea Party is a good example. In sports, fanaticism is fine, but this isn't sports -- this is our nation we are talking about, not some exotic place we have read about.
There ARE lives at stake here. What the House led GOP is doing may make Wisconsin look like a drop in the bucket. This is the very essence of what Naomi Klein wrote about in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We are staring down the barrel of a gun here and it's because the GOP refuses to do what they were elected to do. The consequences of not raising the Debt Ceiling will be disastrous. All one has to do is take a look at Greece or Chile. How about New Orleans or Iraq? This is what Milton Friedman advocated. It's happening right now, right here in OUR Country, known as the United States of America. We live here. We work here. We love here. We cry here. We bleed here. We do these things here, in OUR Country.
There is a difference between understanding politics and activism. Today is one of those days for activism that will help the President - and those who take this issue quite seriously - to govern. He cannot do this alone... Nancy Pelosi cannot do this alone... Clearly, the GOP has no desire to govern; instead, they obstruct and this time they are willing to take our nation down with them. It's time to at least make our voices heard.
Call Eric Cantor today:
Richmond Office - phone: (804) 747-4073 | fax: (804) 747-5308
DC Office - phone: 202-225-2815 | fax: 202-225-0011
Call John Boehner today:
Washington, D.C. Office
1011 Longworth H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-6205
(202) 225-0704 fax
Tell them this is our Country as much as theirs and we need them to put Country first.
ENOUGH!
and 
Raine
When Cantor said the two sides were too far apart to get a deal that could pass the House by the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline — and that he would consider moving a short-term debt-limit increase alongside smaller spending cuts — Obama began to lecture him.
“Eric, don’t call my bluff,” the president said, warning Cantor that he would take his case “to the American people.” He told Cantor that no other president — not Ronald Reagan, the president said — would sit through such negotiations.
Democratic sources dispute Cantor’s version of Obama’s walk out, but all sides agree that the two had a blow up. The sources described Obama as “impassioned” but said he didn’t exactly storm out of the room.
“Cantor’s account of tonight’s meeting is completely overblown. For someone who knows how to walk out of a meeting, you’d think he’d know it when he saw it,” a Democratic aide said. “Cantor rudely interrupted the president three times to advocate for short-term debt ceiling increases while the president was wrapping the meeting. This is just more juvenile behavior from him and Boehner needs to rein him in, and let the grown-ups get to work.”
I was going to write a blog today trying to delineate the difference between politics, activism and governance. I find that I may have to put that subject off for a bit, because to be quite honest with you, it would be hard to describe what Eric Cantor is doing as politics. It's certainly not governing. It's the same with John Boehner, who appears to have totally checked out of any negotiations here.
There are many variables to this particular story, one that seems to have been started by Eric Cantor himself, as The Hill initially reported yesterday. Cantor told reporters the President was "agitated" and "stormed out of a meeting" -- You know, in other words, he was an angry black man who is just downright unreasonable. We've seen this dog whistle tactic before, often from the likes of Eric Cantor.
Bob Wrote yesterday about how the GOP has allowed themselves to be painted into a corner. It was a wonderful piece about how politics works and how the GOP doesn't seem to know how to govern. We've seen a lack of governance for a while, partly due to party loyalty, but when we reach a point that our credit rating may be downgraded, enough is enough. The Markets are already starting to lag just based on this warning. This is not party politics anymore, this is class warfare. It's incredibly dangerous. When ideology trumps common sense -- that tends to turn into the fanatical. The Tea Party is a good example. In sports, fanaticism is fine, but this isn't sports -- this is our nation we are talking about, not some exotic place we have read about.
There ARE lives at stake here. What the House led GOP is doing may make Wisconsin look like a drop in the bucket. This is the very essence of what Naomi Klein wrote about in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We are staring down the barrel of a gun here and it's because the GOP refuses to do what they were elected to do. The consequences of not raising the Debt Ceiling will be disastrous. All one has to do is take a look at Greece or Chile. How about New Orleans or Iraq? This is what Milton Friedman advocated. It's happening right now, right here in OUR Country, known as the United States of America. We live here. We work here. We love here. We cry here. We bleed here. We do these things here, in OUR Country.
There is a difference between understanding politics and activism. Today is one of those days for activism that will help the President - and those who take this issue quite seriously - to govern. He cannot do this alone... Nancy Pelosi cannot do this alone... Clearly, the GOP has no desire to govern; instead, they obstruct and this time they are willing to take our nation down with them. It's time to at least make our voices heard.
Call Eric Cantor today:
Richmond Office - phone: (804) 747-4073 | fax: (804) 747-5308
DC Office - phone: 202-225-2815 | fax: 202-225-0011
Call John Boehner today:
Washington, D.C. Office
1011 Longworth H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-6205
(202) 225-0704 fax
Tell them this is our Country as much as theirs and we need them to put Country first.
and Raine
