BillO channeled his inner Chris Matthews tonight when he accused the Tea Party of putting ideology in front of doing what’s right for the economy, which is according to him, raising the debt ceiling. And he’s specifically talking about Bachmann:
Earlier this week we interviewed Congresswoman Michele Bachmann who said she will not vote to raise the debt ceiling no matter what. Talking Points respectfully disagrees with Ms. Bachmann because if a debt deal is not reach Americans will suffer greatly. I know some of you don’t believe that, but here’s even more evidence.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned yesterday that the nation faces a huge financial calamity if the debt ceiling is not increased. Also the Moody’s financial analysis Ratings agency is threatening to downgrade America’s bonds which are now AAA rated. That would drastically hurt the US economy. All Americans should put ideology aside and urge the politicians to get a compromise done.
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President Obama and the Democrats must stop the spending madness immediately. The country simply can’t afford it any more.
On the other side conservative Tea Party people can’t continue to say ‘hey, we don’t care what happens to the economy. We’re not going to raise the debt limit no matter how many cuts are put in writing.’
This is ridiculous. We know that we can pay our debts. It’s been proven by the treasury’s own numbers (see chart below) that we can pay our debts and if BillO had any sense then he would go get the numbers just like the rest of us have and he’d see it for himself. But he’d rather listen to people with agendas demagogue the issue and now he sounds like he should be on MSNBC for crying out loud with his buddy Chris Matthews!
Here’s the segment so you can listen for yourself:
I stopped recording the segment after hearing him slam the Tea Party. Apparently I missed this egomaniac offering to go to Washington and broker the debt talks himself since he is the voice of moderation in this debate, that is, according to Obama’s press secretary. Yeah BillO thinks it’s an accolade to be given a compliment by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. What a moron.
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