Comments on: U.S. threatened with credit rating hit if debt crisis continues http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41055 The oldest political news site on the Internet Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keith http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41055/comment-page-1#comment-161591 Keith Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:41:39 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=41055#comment-161591 Mark my words, these clowns will wait until 11:59:59 PM on August 1st to come to an agreement, they’ll raise the debt ceiling and then go back to printing more money….which is the cruelest form of taxation there is.

One of these days, the rest of the world is gonna say “I don’ t want to buy your increasingly worthless Treasury bills” and the US will at that point be officially bankrupt.

This crowd we call the US Congress couldn’t work their way out of a wet paper bag.

]]> By: Pondering It All http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/41055/comment-page-1#comment-161487 Pondering It All Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:19:55 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=41055#comment-161487 These Republican threats remind me of Cleavon Little’s famous scene in Blazing Saddles, where he threatens to shoot himself in the head unless the mob backs off:

“Cut Social Security and Medicare, or we’ll plunge the world into a massive financial crisis by destroying the US’s credit rating!”

Every time I hear Boener make the threat, I just crack up…

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