Welcome to this throwback Thursday edition of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast,

where we remember the past and choose to repeat it.

A version of this episode was originally published on August 2, 2011, and we've chosen it

because it was titled The Manufactured Dead Crisis.

Again, back in 2011, and it could have just as easily been produced today with only a

few of the names changed.

Sources include The Young Turks, Jim Heightower, The Daily Show, The Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spin,

Media Matters, The Bugle, Common Sense, and On the Media.

Democrats and Republicans are having fights over, should we raise a debt ceiling or not?

I've told you all along, Republicans are bluffing, Wall Street has already told them you're

going to raise a debt ceiling and you're going to shut up about it, okay?

And so Republicans are pretending, oh no, no, no, we got a massive trillion dollars

with it cuts.

Now Democrats know they're pretending.

Tim Geiner even said it to the press, hey, I talked to the bankers then they already gave

these guys their marching orders and we know that they're going to give it on that, right?

But they're all playing game on us to screw all of us over so they can cut spending and

cut taxes to Named to Rich even Rich, right?

To give you a sense that that's an absolute certainty.

On Face the Nation, Senator Mitch McConnell said, if we can't do something really significant

about the debt ceiling, then we'll probably end up with a very short term proposal over

a few months and we'll be back having the same discussion in the fall.

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