Morgan Griffith, GOP Rep, Compares Default To American Revolution

[highplainsdem]

Source: Huffington Post

Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) compared the looming default to the American Revolution on Saturday after a meeting with House Republicans.

The Hill reports Griffith suggested that even if it resulted in a severely damaging default, the House should reject an unfavorable agreement from the Senate.

“We have to make a decision that’s right long-term for the United States, and what may be distasteful, unpleasant and not appropriate in the short run may be something that has to be done,” Griffith said, according to The Hill. “I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.”

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/12/default-american-revolution-morgan-griffith_n_4089911.html

[TomCADem]

1. Ah, another baptism by fire Tea Party debt ceiling denier...

...it makes you wonder when will people realize that Fox News has been making their brain rot such that they think that default is a good thing.

[MyNameGoesHere]

2. Well he didn't have the gonads to call it

a civil war, yet. But still you know they have always been trying to even the 1-0 score. Just can't stand being losers. Like the 42 or 43 or 44 to nothing score on the ACA. Must suck being part of the loser crowd.

[Turbineguy]

3. Another Great Depression

is fairly long term.

[Zorro]

4. Sounds like sedition to me

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Jackpine compares Morgan Griffith to cockroach droppings

with predictable result.

[amb123]

6. The next thing they'll say is

that the day the government defaults will be "America's New Independence Day, the day the American People declared their freedom from dependence on government!"

[paleotn]

11. Maybe Argentina and Russia can give us lessons on that.

....seems we're new to this sovereign default = new freedom and ponies for everyone deal. I didn't know the Argentines had it so good. Damn! Why'd we wait so long!? Let's do it!!

[paleotn]

7. oh really?

"They created the greatest nation and the best form of government"

Do tell. Griffith and the tea baggers being able to hold entire country hostage over some nutcase, loony toon, political philosophy of theirs kind of disproves that. While our friends and allies with other forms of democratic government scratch their heads and wonder what the hell is wrong with the US.

[Justice]

8. Sad, sad day to hear this.

[Turbineguy]

9. SHIT FOR BRAINS TEABAGGER.

[dgibby]

10. This idiot is my rep,

which is why I have no representation. The stupid, it burns.

[Rebellious Republican]

12. WTF! I fail to see the correlation, I believe the Civil war would have made a better analogy....

Guess I went to different history class's! To top it it off I went to school in a county that only had one high school in a southern state.

[bemildred]

13. These clowns are really asking for it. nt

[andym]

14. They really are revolutionaries

And their revolution is to destroy the US government. I guess they don't care about the collateral damage to everyone's lives.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Why don't they ask these ignoramuses questions about U.S. history?

They know nothing, nada, zilch about the American Revolution or U.S. history. These nihilistic knuckleheads are destroying this country.

[blkmusclmachine]

16. Teabagger, and Christian Dominionist too, I bet.

You betcha!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Another GOPer pokes his head out.

The clown car must be getting crowded.

[JHB]

18. Our current form of government isn't the one we had after 1776...

Originally we operated under the Articles of Confederation, where the national government was more akin to an overarching UN for the 13 sovereign state governments. Or perhaps the League of Nations is a better analogy, considering how weak and toothless the national government was under the articles.

Had it not been replaced with the more centralized Federal government of the Constitution in 1789, we would have been a collection of petty squabbling, back-biting states and within a generation we would have been pried apart by European powers playing one group against the others.

[weissmam]

19. stupid tbagger

how about making him personally responsible for everyone's loses

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

20. I keep thinking they can't get any stupider in their historical undersatnding.

I guess I'm underestimating them. Geez!!!

[Volaris]

21. lol@ hoping for a second Revolution...

if the Govt. defaults on it's debts, the first month that SocSec don't go get mailed, people will start setting government buildings on fire. These people will ABSOLUTELY get the "revolution" they have been fucking pining for.

[Skittles]

22. I thought this had to be the Onion

hard to believe anyone could be THAT ignorant

[SoapBox]

23. ...so fucking stupid.

Idiot.

[MarchemintotheSea]

24. Rep Morgan is a direct reflection of the voters in his district

Mr Morgan is one of the best and brightest the state of Virginia has to offer.

Sure his is a stupid fuck, but just think how stupid the people are who sent him to DC are?

[carolinayellowdog]

25. JUST THINK-- stupid enough to have sent Rick Boucher to Congress from the 9th from 1983 through 2011

THINK about a congressional district's history before hating on all its residents.

[The CCC]

26. Morgan Griffith, GOP Rep, Compares Default To American Revolution

What an idiot. The American Revolutionary War was fought under the Articles of Confederation. It was the US Constitution that gave us our present form of government. The one these TREASONOUS Republican IDIOTS want to destroy.

[yurbud]

27. He's right. He just doesn't know he's on the wrong side of history.

[kiranon]

28. Illusions of grandeur. n/t