Thom Hartmann: What Standard & Poors isn't telling us about the Debt

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 09:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrL-kbPwZpc   Posted on YouTube: August 02, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 90   Posted on DU: August 02, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1173

 
Jane Hamsher, FiredogLake.com, joins Thom Hartmann. In this debt-limit debate we witnessed far-right wing terrorists within the Republican Party - Members of Congress that even Vice President Joe Biden admitted acted like terrorists - threaten America with total economic destruction if they didn't get EVERYTHING they wanted in a debt-limit deal. And as we near the end - it looks like they'll get damn near everything they asked for. That's trillions in spending cuts - without one penny in tax increases on billionaire hedge fund managers - subsidized billion dollar oil corporations - and subsidized billionaire corporate jet owners. It's as though the president was totally unprepared for this assault by the Republicans. But it's not as if he wasn't warned that they were planning to play hostage-takers.

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[PonyJon]

1. Obama is deep cover republican operative.

There is no other way to explain it. I would imagine he has multiple offshore accounts in places like Saudi Arabia. A second term is out of the question he is doing his best to hand 2012 to the GOPers. The only option for Dems is AmericaElects dot org.

[INdemo]

4. And there are Democrats that still support this guy and dont think he should be

challenged

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Well shit.

[stockholmer]

3. I actually find him to be an overt operative of the global banker-led systemic control schema

Republicans and Democrats are simply two side of the same coin, they may look and sound different on some levels, but they both are spent the same to ensure continuity of agenda. A vending machine of tyranny cares not what side of the coin is inserted, it still yields a vessel of tyranny.



The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.

- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope (1966)