I've never really determined if right-winging emails such as the one below, from Tea Party Express, pass along to their duped herds an ignorance of the facts by design or through sheer, well, ignorance:
Barack Obama and his administration have turned up the heat this week - demanding that the debt ceiling be raised above $14.3 TRILLION.
Liberal politicians in Washington ... advance these doom-and-gloom propositions if we don't take immediate action to spend more money and grow government bigger.
Well enough is enough!... This time we demand the politicians act like responsible adults and get their addiction to deficit spending under control. We're in debt and don't have the money for more big government spending.
One wonders. Is anyone at Tea Party Express aware that the debt ceiling applies to past commitments, such as unfunded GOP tax cuts and unfunded GOP wars and an unfunded GOP prescription-drug program? Those "liberal politicians" are merely trying to keep financial pace with the fiscal headaches created by conservative drunks with a national credit card.