In about a month,the federal government will hit its legal debt limit.There will be dire consequences if this limit isnà ‚¬ „ t raised.At best, weà ‚¬ „ ll suffer an economic slowdown;at worst weà ‚¬ „ ll plunge into the depths of the 08-9 financial crisis.Is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.Repubs are doing this because they must believe that it will work:Obama caved in over tax cuts,& they expect him to cave again.They believe that they have the upper hand, because the public will blame the president for the economic crisis theyà ‚¬ „ re threatening to create.In fact,ità ‚¬ „ s hard to avoid the suspicion that GOP leaders actually want the economy to perform badly.Repubs believe,in short, that theyà ‚¬ „ ve got Obamaà ‚¬ „ s number,that he may still live in the White House but that for practical purposes his presidency is already over.Ità ‚¬ „ s time for him to prove them wrong. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)