Congress Wants to Speed Up Deficit Spending to Catch Up to Greece

Congresscritters on the Left are watching the clock run out on their temporary majorities and are looking to INCREASE deficits, all the while blaming Republicans because Bush's Administration did the same thing! Sound like playground macho to you, too?

Democratic leaders are looking in the next three weeks to send President Barack Obama a slew of measures that cost more than $200 billion, including a multiyear extension of unemployment benefits, an extension of expiring tax provisions and Medicare doctor payments totaling $180 billion and a $33 billion Afghanistan war supplemental bill.....GOP members are banking on deficits being one of the biggest issues in November. This year’s budget shortfall is expected to be $1.5 trillion, and deficits are expected to average $1 trillion over the next decade, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates of Obama’s budget proposal.

The rhetoric on both sides is heating up:

“Washington Democrats’ out-of-control spending spree is scaring the hell out of the American people,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). “It has to stop.”

To which the Democrats respond with their standard class-warfare Marxist line, using MC Hammer as an example???:

“As much as [Republicans] would like you to forget, they passed an agenda that benefited big corporate special interests and the wealthy at the expense of middle-class families and then turned around and left our grandkids with the bill,” said Doug Thornell, a spokesman for Assistant to the Speaker Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). “Democrats inherited an economic disaster from a party who had about as much fiscal responsibility as MC Hammer. We have taken responsible steps to clean up their mess. It’d be nice if Republicans reined in their political ambitions, grabbed a mop and joined us.”

And it looks like Greece will be a poster-boy for the ObamaCare Health Fiasco that nobody in Congress read before they voted on it, as well as other Dem boondoggles like the Crap and Trade Bill, among others in queue to make the US bankrupt:

Republican senators, first led by Sen. Jim Bunning (Ky.) and subsequently by Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), have held up the Democrats’ past attempts to hold quick votes on extending the unemployment benefits and other expiring tax provisions.

Coburn, who has noted that Democrats approved $173 billion in deficit spending since the pay-go law was signed by Obama in March, has said he would also oppose any of the coming measures, including the war supplemental, that aren’t paid for.

“Dr. Coburn will use every tool at his disposal to force Congress to pay for these provisions,” said Coburn spokesman John Hart. “Our country is headed toward a Greek-like collapse because Congress refuses to make hard choices.”

California is the best example stateside of how Democrats destroy an economy by taxes and gigantic entitlements for public employees while grinding the small-business types into the ground or driving them out of state---California has lost 1.5 million people since 2008. The Dems also want to depopulate the USA, it seems, with abortions at one end, death panels at the other end, and in-between, onerous taxation which drives corporations offshore and eventually a lot of their employees.