Reverse-synergy engineering?

Heritage Action for America and the Family Research Council and the Club for Growth have collectively fielded their executive mental power in a Politico opinion piece that'll leave you gaping in wonder and incredulity from start to finish. And if you think that's an overstatement, let's start with this Michael Needham-Tony Perkins-Chris Chocola declaration:

This Monday, President Obama again asserted that the country would "default" if Congress did not raise the debt limit.... This is of course untrue--we have enough funds to service our debt and the only risk to our credit is the president’s demagoguery and scare-mongering.

Well, sure, that's presidential puffery for you, just a whole bunch of frightening hype based only on the selfsame opinion of every mentally competent human on Earth. And the president's globally reflected opinion is, after all, so easy to overcome: merely a quick constitutional amendment changing Article IV, Section 1's language to a "fragmentary faith and 60-percent credit" clause.

Next up:

Very simply, we can quickly jump-start our economy and improve the lives of millions of Americans by insisting that Washington not raise the debt ceiling unless our nation gets on a path to a balanced budget within 10 years that stays balanced.

My italics, which should suffice.

Finally, to the finish, which indeed finishes all hope for Needham and Perkins and Chocola, in that they grotesquely reference the ruthless gutting of the world's largest economy as a "moral obligation"--which is one reason I never did have much use for that adjective, in that I think they actually believe it.

Comments

[japa21]

I am not sure they believed it in the beginning, but I am now convinced they do believe it.

On the other hand, why should I trust anything a breakfast cereal says?

[Robert Lipscomb]

I read this morning that even the Koch brothers are throwing this idea under the bus.

Yep, the House GOP is now too "pro-business" and too "conservative" for the Koch brothers.

I was stunned the day I concluded that Reagan was no longer conservative enough to be a Republican. Now the Koch brothers are too liberal to own them. Of corse I subscribe to the Colin Powell aphorism, "Iyou break it, you own it."

In other words the One Per Cent has done for the GOP what the neo-cons did for Iraq. After the Wall Street Crash, who could have seen this coming?

[priscianus jr]

It's interesting that the Family Research Council is one of the corporate authors of this thing. Near as I can figure, the guy who first came up with the idea of using the debt-ceiling vote as political extortion (back in December 2010) was the illustrious Ken Blackwell (remember him?), who is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.

[AnneJ]

What does an organization that pretty much does nothing else except promote homophobia know about economics or the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling? Why would anyone take them seriously on this issue.

[Bulworth]

"Very simply, we can quickly jump-start our economy and improve the lives of millions of Americans by insisting that Washington not raise the debt ceiling unless our nation gets on a path to a balanced budget within 10 years that stays balanced."

Well, if it was a balanced budget within ten years you all wanted, we could have just let all the Bush tax cuts expire.

But let's say for the sake of argument, conservatives, that we fail to achieve a consensus on how to get the budget balanced in ten years and for super infinity beyond that. Will it be OK then to default and blow up the economy?

[majii]

Right, I can hear one of the GOP's main core groups yelling en masse for their Social Security Checks and asking why they can't visit their doctors for their health issues, if the debt limit isn't increased!! This is really a stupid move on the part of the Heritage Action for America, the Family Research Council and the Club for Growth because they're sending a loud and clear message to the 65 and over crowd that these corporatists couldn't care less whether they survive or not.