Saturday, October 12, 2013

The Tea Partied shut down/debt ceiling spin - Fact vs Fiction!

Tea Partied Republican US Senate and House lawmakers(?) are all over  the airways spinning falsehoods about the shutdown, compromise, the deficit and default while Tea Partied  FOXifiers are having a jolly old time laughing and slapping their knees as if  the economic destruction of US citizens and the global economy is one big joke!

If the only way you can defend an argument is with a lie, how credible does that make you or your argument?

We can flip the spins with the Sources below, but first, lets sort out the facts from the Tea Partied fabrications.


Raising the debt ceiling will increase the debt!?!?!

Raising the debt ceiling has nothing to do with increasing the debt. It pays the bills Tea Partied Republicans already authorized and spent!



 Default is no big deal!?!?!

When Tea Partied Republicans drove default to the brink in 2011, the US credit rating and US treasury bond ratings dropped, Americans loss $600 billion from their 401K's,  and the global market went  into full blown panic mode.

Full blown default will  result in more of the above plus it will disrupt your  social security payments; slam the breaks on obtaining your  personal  and student loans;  increase your credit card interest rates, and throw the US and world into economic disarray!





President Obama has done nothing to reduce the deficit!?!?!

President Obama reduced the deficit from $3 trillion to $642 billion.






President Obama added $3 trillion to the deficit!?!?

$3 trillion is the Tea Partied Republican Bush era deficit President Obama inherited from their unfunded War in Iraq, unfunded medical prescription bill and unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations.




President Obama never reached out to hold a “conversation” with Republicans in Congress!?!?!

President Obama “reached out” to Tea Partied Republicans a minimum of 20 times.The first time he "reached out"  was during his first week in office and Boehner promptly blew him off! In other instances, Tea Partied Republicans  actually walked out on the President while he was conversing!


President Obama and congressional Democrats never reached out to compromise with Republicans!?!?!

Here’s what happened when the President and/or Democratic lawmakers compromised with Tea Partied Republican lawmakers(?)

·         The individual mandate was slashed from the Affordable Health Care Act (the very same item Tea Partied lawmakers(?) said they wanted when they voted down President Clinton’s attempt at affordable health care legislation)
·         The  federal government  budget was slashed to Tea Partied Republican Paul Ryan’s austere standards
·         The President met with Boehner. They compromised on a “grand bargain”. Boehner presented the deal to his Tea Partied non-compromisers and the "grand bargain" bit the dust!
·       On October 10, 2013 the Tea Partied House leadership disrespected the President's invitation to talk by sending low ranking Tea Partied lawmakers(s) to demand a temporary debt ceiling vote for 6 weeks(?) and continuation of the government shut down.  

How's that for compromise!?!?!



Harry Reid refuses to negotiate on a budget!?!?!

Democratic US Senator Reid cannot negotiate on the budget until Tea Partied House Republicans set up a Congressional Conference Committee which they refuse to establish!



Congressional Democrats never asked to sit down with Tea Partied Republican lawmakers !?!?!

On record, congressional Democrats have asked to sit down with Tea Partied Republican lawmakers (?) over 20 times.  Tea Partied lawmakers(?) rejected those talks  17 of those times!



Tell Tea Partied Republican lawmaker(s) to
Pass a long term clean debt ceiling resolution
 and 
 End the government shutdown!

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SOURCES:

(WE can spin the spins! Pick your favorite sources from  below. Share these sources on your social networks, on cable and local news social networks including FOX, and on Tea Partied Republican congressional websites which can be  located at Contact Republicans in Congress - GOP.govwww.gop.gov/republicans‎)



New York Times ‎- 2 minutes ago

Republicansfall quiet in faceof Obama deficit success - Video on ... video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/5191

 

The ChartThat Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt ... 

 www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/.../242484/

 

WhatHappens When Obama Tries To Compromise With The GOP ... 

mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/...obama-tries-to-compromise.../196189

 

Harry ReidCompromised On Shutdown Negotiation, House ... 

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/.../harry-reid-shutdown_n_4050400.ht...

 

PolicyMic ‎- by Mark Kogan  ‎- 4 hours ago

United States loses prized AAA credit rating from S&P | Reuters 

www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806

Opinion: Consequences of default would last generations - CNBC.com 

www.cnbc.com/id/101095772



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