This showdown is by far the most dangerous of a series of fiscal “crises” that have been contrived during the Obama presidency. Republicans threaten a complete and catastrophic economic shutdown by breaching the debt limit, holding democracy and all Americans hostage by threat of destruction of the entire American economic system - hostage to a laundry list of radical unpopular partisan demands that will never pass either the full House or the Senate. The risk of a cataclysmic default has never been greater. The media is to blame for fostering this hostage drama. In typical he said-she said fashion, reporters obscure the fact that the basic norms that govern Congress have been thrown out the window by a small cabal of tea party-endorsed legislators from overwhelmingly Republican districts. The media treats unprecedented legislative extortion as typical partisan negotiations. In doing so they normalize it. But it’s not normal. Republicans are demanding that Democrats unwind their signature achievement – a piece of legislation that took 18 months to pass, survived a Supreme Court challenge and a presidential election – in exchange for ending the Republican Shutdown of the American government and the hardship misery now being knowingly inflicted by Republicans on all Americans. As Bill Moyers recently wrote, "a faction within one of our parties has rejected the basic structure of our democratic system – the separation of powers. The only thing that will break the fever that grips them – the only thing that can break the fever – is intense public backlash, and not just from Democratic partisans, but also from the majority of Republicans who don’t identify with the tea party movement and oppose these antics." Moyers added: By muddying the waters of what’s really going on with false equivalence, the Beltway media is making that reckoning unlikely to occur. In doing so, American journalism abandons its moral conscience as well as its journalistic ideals. Here’s the facts, Jack: The Republicans have taken America hostage. The GOP is holding a bullet to Americans’ heads and issuing ransom demands. And the mainstream media? They ignore the gun, the bullet, the perpetrator while hyping criticism and analysis of the hostage victim’s family haggling over the ransom demand. We need your voice! Like the Great Depression, the consequences of the GOP’s sadistic political game will have dramatic effects on the United States’ economy for decades to come. This affects us all. We have little time left. You are on the moral side of history. Now is the time when you must make your voice heard. Contact your newspapers and use your social media outlets. Call and write your representatives in Congress to reopen the Government, raise the debt limit now and put a halt to the GOP’s assault on democracy and hostage taking madness. Act today. The time is now.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:51:00 +0000
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