The effort by the media to build up the next fiscal milestone into a crisis is continuing apace. So it the plan to blame any failure on the Republicans. The latest push comes from Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post. (I write often about the WaPo even though it is a second-rate paper; however, it is the newspaper that most of Washington reads each day, so it has undue impact.) In his piece, Cillizza has already forgotten the fiscal cliff negotiations that supposedly dealt with the most significant confluence of fiscal matters of all time. Speaking of the inability of president Obama and speaker Boehner to reach a grand bargain in August of 2011 and again last month, Cillizza says:
Those failures have set up what amounts to the granddaddy of them all in late February and early March, when three things will happen: The debt ceiling will (again) need to be raised, the government will run out of money and need to be re-funded, and the package of automatic across-the-board cuts in military and domestic spending — a.k.a. sequestration — will kick in.
So now, we are at the "granddaddy of them all"? Really? But the point here is that Cillizza then goes on to explain why a deal to resolve these matter may no longer be possible. Want to guess why a deal is unlikely? If you guessed that the Republicans are the problem, you win the prize. Cillizza does not even mention the Democrats; it is all Republicans all the time with him.
What we are watching is the effort by the Democrats and their allies in the media to try to flip the blame for spending problems onto the GOP.
Those failures have set up what amounts to the granddaddy of them all in late February and early March, when three things will happen: The debt ceiling will (again) need to be raised, the government will run out of money and need to be re-funded, and the package of automatic across-the-board cuts in military and domestic spending — a.k.a. sequestration — will kick in.
So now, we are at the "granddaddy of them all"? Really? But the point here is that Cillizza then goes on to explain why a deal to resolve these matter may no longer be possible. Want to guess why a deal is unlikely? If you guessed that the Republicans are the problem, you win the prize. Cillizza does not even mention the Democrats; it is all Republicans all the time with him.
What we are watching is the effort by the Democrats and their allies in the media to try to flip the blame for spending problems onto the GOP.
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