National Debt

“Thieves! Fire! Murder!” This exclamation uttered by Radagast the Brown in the movie The Hobbit was not too far off from MSNBC’s Alex Wagner’s characterization of the GOP House Freedom Caucus members who opposed the McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling deal on her eponymous show on Tuesday night.

How trustworthy is Joe Scarborough when he starts telling stories about his lecturing private lunches from six years ago? Today, Scarborough claims he told then-Congressman Mark Meadows back in 2017 that the House Republicans need to focus on spending less government money. But that's nothing like what he said on MSNBC in 2017, when he said the Trump budget was "nothing less than hateful."  …

Shortly after recommending that President Joe Biden sign a fiscally irresponsible debt limit deal, the great minds at The New York Times pushed for what even Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called a “constitutional crisis.”

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way” is an old and familiar quotation, often attributed to Albert Einstein, who was on to something almost as significant as E=MC2. What if there is no will, is there still a way? It doesn’t seem likely. In Washington, will has come to die to paraphrase Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and now Republican presidential candidate. Rarely is anything significant…

Days after House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden announced they had a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, left-wing CNN historian Douglas Brinkley tried Tuesday on CNN Tonight to rewrite history in order to give Biden credit for coming to the table to negotiate. Unfortunately for Brinkley, Republican political strategist and senior political commentator…

Conservative radio host Mark Levin recently took far-left Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to the woodshed for outrageous comments he made about the debt ceiling and how President Joe Biden could circumvent it.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, in a moment of utter obliviousness, praising Biden and McCarthy for acting like adults in reaching a debt limit deal, says: "There are days we should wake up and say, you know what? Things are getting done. And it's not always quite as bleak and catastrophic as people who get paid a lot of money to say it is."

In their coverage of the just-concluded debt ceiling stand-off, ABC, CBS and NBC put the onus for a potential default on Republicans, ignored the dangers of the rising national debt, and hyped GOP proposals to trim spending as extreme attempts to “gut” or “slash” liberal programs.

In the aftermath of House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden announcing a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling, CNN’s State of the Union brought on one of their political commentators, Ashley Allison who absurdly claimed that Congressional Republicans insisting on work requirements for those on welfare benefits are “offensive to poor people.” 

CBS Saturday Morning and NBC’s Today put their thumb on the scales for Democrats as the White House and House Republicans seek to negotiate a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit. When it came to the GOP demand to add some work requirements for certain welfare programs, both networks would provide Democratic statements denouncing the idea with no corresponding Republican statement.…

In an interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on his eponymous show Thursday night, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper encouraged Sanders to expound on his belief that President Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress in the debt ceiling negotiation. Despite the questionable constitutionality of such a proposal and Biden's rejection of it as an option, CNN continued to promote the 14th…

Despite President Biden’s very public refusal to negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling for weeks until the 11th hour, NewsNation’s faux centrist Chris “Fredo” Cuomo opened his eponymous show Thursday night falsely suggesting it was GOP “brinksmanship” that was endangering the global economy and America’s credit rating. He equated it to “political terrorism” and suggested it was the…

On Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid opened by doing what she does best: lying about and smearing conservatives with anything she can make up. This time, Reid decided to lie about conservatives and Republicans in the United States House of Representatives by claiming they want to drive the United States into default on its debt in order to hurt President…

Politicians continued to negotiate the debt ceiling on Wednesday and Thursday but still have not reached a consensus. CNN This Morning anchors and correspondents believed the discussion surrounding the debt ceiling was unnecessary and destabilized the world economy and called Republicans’ efforts to curb America’s spending an “irrational fight.”