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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Hey, GOP! Try LISTENING To Reagan For A Change



Ezra Klein does the honors, though this quote has been filtering around the internets for a few days:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/ronald-reagan-defaulting-on-the-debt-would-be-unthinkable/2011/05/19/AFeYQE7G_blog.html

I think the title, barely readable in the link above, says it all.

Defaulting WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE.  Yet, as Klein points out, it's being though about.

I can't decide whether the GOP is trying to talk Obama into believing that they would risk default, or whether they are trying to talk themselves into it.

If they are hoping Obama believes them, I wouldn't hold my breath.

If they are trying to convince themselves, God help us all.  Because these nitwits can convince themselves of just about anything.

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