Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Stephan: The Republicans in the Congress overpower the Democrats over and over, because they have a clear vision of what their corporate masters want them to do, and they stick to it. In contrast the Democrats dither. Because the Democrats lacked the will to do their duty, and failed to change the Senate rules, power in the Congress has shifted to the House, where the Republican leadership is more committed to protecting their sponsors than protecting the economic health of the country. Every few months now we go through an economic crisis, each one degrading the country a little more.
Right after the House of Representatives approved a Senate bill to avert a government shutdown, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) set the stage for another down-to-the-wire crisis that will threaten the nation’s economic growth. At his weekly press conference, Boehner indicated that Republicans would again demand spending cuts in exchange for raising the nation’s debt ceiling, which it is set to hit in May.
Boehner said Republicans would only raise the debt ceiling if they got an equal amount of spending cuts, the Huffington Post reports:
‘Dollar for dollar is the plan,
