re: #150 jaunte

Graham: ‘We’re going over the cliff’

One of the ugly consequences for the Republicans is going to be the reaction to hyperbole.

They’ve been calling it a cliff. They’ve been acting as though it’s going to immediately drop us into another Great Recession.

Come January a lot of people are going to be looking around asking where the cliff went. Oh, there’ll be a bit of a bump that’ll show for the first quarter or two, but cliff? Not so much.

And the consequence will be that Republican predictions of doom are going to be treated even more frequently as hyperbole and hysteria. “Oh, it’s just John again, predicting the end of the world because we’re almost out of beer in the fridge.”