GOP continues to baffle

The Republican approach to the fiscal situation of this country continues to baffle me. It is so short sighted and illogical. I am frustrated and annoyed with them.

From a Bloomberg article, “If we’re going to raise the amount of money we can borrow, we ought to do something about our spending problem and the lack of economic growth in our country,” Boehner said.

The way to do something about the “spending problem” (I vehemently disagree with this assertion, but for the sake of this post lets assume it’s true) is to STOP PASSING LAWS ORDERING THE SPENDING IN THE FIRST PLACE. This is not the appropriate time to be making these arguments. The money has already been spent and we need to pay our bills. Attempting to extract concessions regarding arguments already lost is childish. Closing the government and threatening the debt limit, essentially holding the entire country hostage, is only going to harm our economy and our people more. Republicans have no interest in governing, no sense of statesmanship and no grasp on how they are perceived by the majority of people in this country. They are undermining our standing in the world. They are hastening the end to our golden years. Thanks for nothing.

As a friend of mine recently said, “Republicans: We are ready to wreck the economy in order to prove we care about the economy.”