Senator Corker of the great state of Tennessee once again wants to hold the debt ceiling gun to America’s head so he can cut Social Security and Medicare benefits (and Medicaid, disability, veteran benefits and who knows what else). Because threatening to take down our country’s economy – again – is his party’s leverage to screw over the vast majority of the American people.
Corker pointed out that Republicans could use the debt ceiling to “do the same thing we did last time.”
“If the president wants to raise the debt limit by $2 trillion, we get $2 trillion in spending reductions. And hopefully this time it’s mostly oriented towards entitlements,” he insisted.
Between refusing to compromise on tax cuts for the rich and the refusing to raise debt ceiling (something I have to remind Republicans that they had no trouble with doing during the 8 years that President Bush erased the Clinton surplus and ran up massive deficits) we see that Republicans in Congress simply don’t give a damn about what happens to the American people. What they care about are the Big Banks and other Mega-Corporations, and the wealthy people who control them. As for all those people who paid their FICA taxes for Social Security and Medicare? Screw ’em. That in a nutshell is the Republican Party’s domestic policy.