Current events? Hmm, Repubs know more than Dems?
From a little Pew Research poll, I am not surprised at the results:
(H/T: NRO)
Democrats keep saying that they are the "reality based community" - the question is: are they in touch with reality as well as they think they are?
Speaking of which, I still don't get it - the Dems keep blaming Bush ("and the previous 8 years") for high spending. Know something? I agree with him - Republicans lost not only their ways but their minds - and thus, their majorities.
Methinks that the Dems have overplayed the first and underthought the results:
Upping the ante just a day after losing their 60th Senate seat, Democrats moved Wednesday to seek a $1.9 trillion increase in the federal debt ceiling and give the Treasury adequate borrowing authority past November’s elections and into next year.
Republicans were caught off guard by the scale of the increase which follows a $290 billion short-term debt increase approved prior to Christmas. “That’s just escapism of the worst sort,” Sen. Judd Gregg (R.,N.H.) told POLITICO. But Democrats countered that their only alternative would be to give-in to a Republican strategy of forcing multiple smaller debt ceiling increases, designed to bleed them politically before November.
This perception was reinforced by a meeting Tuesday between Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). By going now with the higher $1.9 trillion target, Democrats are making a high-stakes gamble that the party can pull together once more to put the debt ceiling issue behind them for this election year.
“We have to do this. The alternative is worse,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D—Mont.) in a brief interview.
Right - let's not just double down but quadruple up, eh?
It looks like the most vulnerable NH CongressCritters, Carol Shea-Porter voted for this - Paul Hodes has just turned "conservative" in his bid for a Senatorial seat?
Dems - giving us the financial shaft at the national level with nary a whimper - and here in NH.
Yeah, the problem is that the chickens that will be coming home to roost for them are going to drop a BIG load of financial sorrow on us all.
Reality based? Not "indeed"; rather "uh-oh" on steroids...
(H/T: Sweetness and Light)
