{"id":50824,"date":"2021-09-29T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50824"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:32:55","slug":"debt-ceiling-dumbass-sean-hannity-is-right-except-for-being-wrong-about-almost-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50824","title":{"rendered":"Debt Ceiling Dumbass Sean Hannity is Right, Except for Being Wrong About Almost Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is taking a rare break from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50750\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trying to kill off their audience<\/a><\/strong> with COVID vaccine disinformation. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t still spreading lies intended to harm their viewers and the nation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-hannity-drain.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Sean Hannity\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48790\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The current battle in Congress to pass legislation for infrastructure development and economic renewal is consuming much of the news cycle. The plans represent key parts of President Biden&#8217;s agenda. So naturally Fox News is weighing in with predictable attacks on anything that the Democrats have proposed or support. And leading the charge is Fox&#8217;s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>On his nightly hour of liberal bashing and neo-fascism advocacy, Hannity demonstrated why he is so revered by budding totalitarians across the nation. He simultaneously demonstrated his infamous idiocy on pretty much any subject that he addresses.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Hannity was canoodling with Newt Gingrich to contrive false narratives about Congress raising the debt ceiling. It&#8217;s a usually a routine function that both political parties agree to in order to keep the country from defaulting on its debts. But not this year. Republicans have been adamant that they will not play nice with Democrats, even if it means economic catastrophe. And as a loyal Republican, but a disloyal American, Hannity chimed in saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They [Democrats] have the House. They have the Senate. They want to spend all this money. Republicans don&#8217;t. There&#8217;s no opportunity to work with a Republican. I don&#8217;t think one Republican should vote to increase it by a penny. Now Democrats are gonna say &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re gonna shut down the government, and the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is gonna be at stake.&#8217; That&#8217;s not true. They have control of Congress. They have control of the purse strings. They get to decide. So it will be up to them whether or not they raise the debt ceiling. Correct?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hannity saying it\u2019s on Democrats to handle the debt ceiling without mentioning that Republicans blocked Democrats from doing that earlier today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQloQa6wOW\">pic.twitter.com\/DQloQa6wOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1442665287313096704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, Hannity managed to get something right for a change. Democrats do have majorities in the House and the Senate. And they can pass an increase in the debt ceiling on their own, so long as there are no defections. But everything else Hannity said is not only wrong, but mind-numbingly stupid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First of all, raising the debt ceiling has nothing to do with Democrats wanting to spend money. In fact, it is the money that was already spent during the administration of Donald Trump that that would be covered by the increase.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, Democrats have reached out repeatedly to Republicans to join this ordinarily uncontroversial procedure. Th GOP has refused to go along, insisting that Democrats carry the load by themselves. It&#8217;s a tactic designed to blame Democrats after the fact for doing the responsible thing.<\/li>\n<li>Thirdly, Hannity&#8217;s little charade about the GOP not putting the <em>&#8220;full faith and credit of the U.S. government&#8221;<\/em> at risk is a straight up lie, and he knows it. If the debt ceiling isn&#8217;t raised, then the U.S. cannot pay its obligations. That&#8217;s the definition of default, and would send the economy into a tailspin. The anticipation of it has already spooked the stock market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only thing that Hannity got right was that Democrats hold majorities in Congress. Although he fails to grasp that the only reason that&#8217;s true is because the American people put them there. They also put Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House, defeating Trump by more than seven million votes.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, this might be a good time to listen to Hannity. His recognition that <em>&#8220;[Democrats] have control of Congress, they have control of the purse strings, they get to decide,&#8221;<\/em> should inspire the Democrats to move forward with the rest of their agenda. They should pass the infrastructure bill without help from the GOP. They should pass the reconciliation bill as well. And if they need to dispense with the filibuster to do it, they shouldn&#8217;t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden\/Democratic agenda is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50374\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelmingly popular with the American people<\/a><\/strong>. Passage would create jobs, stimulate the economy, provide benefits for families, children, students, seniors, workers, and more. And Democrats would get all of the credit. That&#8217;s a recipe for future victories in 2022, 2024, and beyond. So if there ever a time to take Hannity&#8217;s advice, it&#8217;s now. Go for it Democrats!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is taking a rare break from trying to kill off their audience with COVID vaccine disinformation. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t still spreading lies intended to harm their viewers and the nation. The current battle in Congress to pass legislation for infrastructure development and economic renewal is consuming much of the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[219,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[218,554,1141,33,377,301,129],"class_list":["post-50824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-republicans","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ddK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38429,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38429","url_meta":{"origin":50824,"position":0},"title":"Sean Hannity of Fox News Goes Off on &#8216;The Apocalyptic Left&#8217; in Defense of Trump Nominee","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday night Donald Trump unveiled his second Supreme Court nominee in as many years. 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