GOP: We?ve been lying all along - Salon.com
GOP: WeÂ’ve been lying all along
Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his party's ulterior, program-cutting motives
I never thought IÂ’d write these words, but here goes: Thank you, John Boehner. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for finally admitting on national television that all the fiscal cliffs, sequestrations and budget battles youÂ’ve created are, indeed, artificially fabricated by ideologues and self-interested politicians and not the result of some imminent crisis thatÂ’s out of our control.
America owes this debt of gratitude to Boehner after he finally came clean on yesterday’s edition of ABC’s “This Week” and admitted that “we do not have an immediate debt crisis.” (His admission was followed up by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who quickly echoed much the same sentiment on CBS’ “Face the Nation”).
In offering up such a stunningly honest admission, the GOP leader has put himself on record as agreeing with President Obama, who has previously acknowledged that demonstrable reality. But the big news here isnÂ’t just about the politics of a Republican House speaker tacitly admitting they agree with a Democratic president. It is also about a bigger admission revealing the fact that the GOPÂ’s fiscal alarmism is not merely some natural reaction to reality, but a calculated means to other ideological ends.
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