NYT headline: "House Passes Deal to Avert Debt Crisis". The cure to the debt crisis? MORE DEBT!

This isn't unique to the New York Times of course, but is emblematic of how the establishment media is carrying water for Obama and Democrats (via memeorandum): House Passes Deal to Avert Debt Crisis. The headline is a contradiction in terms on several levels. For one, the debt crisis was not averted, it was made far worse. Congress authorized Obama to blow another $12.4 trillion, the largest debt ceiling increase in our history. It will barely get us past 2012 at the insane spending level Obama put us in. And the deficit that stands at more than $14.4 trillion will be about $17 trillion in the blink of an eye. It will not create any real jobs in the private sector and in fact will hurt job creation.

On an even more basic level though, how can one avert a debt crisis by adding more debt? Isn't that like an alcoholic averting an alcoholic crisis by buying a crate of vodka with someone else's money? How's that going to help exactly? Largely unsaid in the debt ceiling fiasco is that all the plans to rein in spending only theoretically reduce the deficit, not the debt. They are only promising to overspend by less. The debt will grow every single year by boatloads of our grandkids' money. The debt will not be reduced by one single red cent. At least Ron Paul gets it: Video of Ron Paul "How Do You Solve The Debt Problem By Raising The Debt?"

UPDATE: From American Thinker: We The Stupid

I stand here in abject stupefaction.  The so-called “right” or “Tea Party” in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come up with an adequate violent submission metaphor that does not involve prison rape . . .

Should ask a Democrat for the adequate violent metaphor. They have proven themselves exceedingly efficient at that.