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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Liberal and neocon vampires slowly sucking lifeblood from U.S. ridicule tea partiers as "Hobbits" for trying to toe the debt line

From:
The Day of the Hobbits

(The American Conservative) -- by Patrick J. Buchanan --

Mocked by The Wall Street Journal and Sen. John McCain as the little people of the “Lord of the Rings” books, the Tea Party “Hobbits” are indeed returning to Middle Earth — to nail the coonskin to the wall.

As even the Journal concedes, the final deal to raise the debt ceiling, worked out by Sen. Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama, backed by Speaker John Boehner, is “The Triumph of the Tea Party.”

The Hobbits demanded that the GOP do battle over the debt ceiling, that it not raise the ceiling without equal spending cuts, that the party accept no taxes.

They got it all. The deal cuts spending by $900 billion and raises the debt ceiling an equal amount. It mandates further cuts of $1.5 trillion, to be agreed on by Thanksgiving by a congressional commission of 12, and for those cuts to be voted up or down.

If the commission fails to agree — seven votes are needed — cuts of $1.2 trillion must be made, half from defense. Any Medicare cuts are restricted to providers, not beneficiaries.

What did liberals get? Nothing.

What did Obama get?
He demanded a “clean” debt-ceiling hike. When the GOP said no, he demanded a “balanced approach” — tax hikes commensurate with spending cuts. Again, the GOP said no. Again, he capitulated.

Obama was tossed one crumb in his appeal that he not be forced to fight the Tea Party again in his re-election year. Democrats surrendered on substance and yielded on policy for “peace in our time.”

Ronald Reagan demanded 18 increases in the debt ceiling in eight years, one every six months. He got them all. Obama asked for a two-year truce and, in return, accepted what the head of the Black Caucus calls a “Satan sandwich.”

The mainstream media claim that Tea Party intransigence lost the GOP the propaganda war. But if the left believes that, why would they be afraid of a re-enactment of their victory in 2012?...

Bottom line: Despite the debt-ceiling battle that convulsed this city, the final deal will achieve neither the deficit nor debt reduction we thought. Notwithstanding the Tea Party victory, we continue drifting toward the falls.

And as that happy warrior of the political battlefield, Ron Paul, reminds us, we are inevitably going over — into default.

Only that default will not take the dramatic form of a U.S. refusal to redeem T-bills or halt interest payments on Treasury bonds.

We Americans are not going the Argentine route.

Rather, we will, as we are doing today, slowly destroy the value of our dollar as an international medium of exchange. Unlike Greece, which cannot print euros to pay debts, we can print dollars to service ours.

Beijing will made to accept dollars of a purchasing power far less than that of the dollars they lent to us. We are going to cheat them.

Already this year, the dollar has lost 30 percent of its value against the Swiss franc and plunged against the yen and Canadian dollar. And in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein celebrates the news that the dollar is slowly dying, for it means that U.S. exports are that much cheaper for foreigners to buy.

One wonders what men like Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower would think of a 21st century America whose elites rejoice in the news that the U.S. dollar is less valued and less respected in the world than in the America they fought to defend...MORE...LINK
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Chris Moore:

The nerve of John McCain for ridiculing the tea partiers as “Hobbits” for trying to toe the debt line. If the tea partiers are Hobbits, then the liberals and neocons are vampires who have slowly been sucking the lifeblood from America for decades now, and are responsible for this debt mess that is economically destroying the country.

Without the massive welfare/warfare state constructed by the liberals and the neocons, there would be no debt problem. And yet, the tea partiers are cast by mainstream media as villains for trying to get the country back into economic shape.

This is like the media casting those who stage an intervention to save a heroin addict as the evil villains, and the heroin pushers as the heroes.

Only in an Orwellian, upside down, post-Christian country where evil is good, wrong is right, and war is peace could such noxious narrative ever see the light of day.

We are ruled by a profoundly evil establishment.

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