I know...it's hard to keep up because not a day goes by without a good bit of teapocrisy. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child named " It Wasn't Me"? I did for a while. Whenever something just happened and my mom asked what happened I responded "It Wasn't Me". Thing is I grew out of it and learned that I had to own up to my mistakes. The G-TEA-O-P? Not so much.
Tea Party Rep: Bank Should Have Known I Wouldn't Be Able To Repay $2.2 Million Loan
See, poor innocent Georgia Rep Tom Graves borrowed more money than he can't repay but it's not at all his fault. "Wasn't Him". The big bad horrible evil bank made him do it. Not that banks aren't big bad and horrible but the TPs seem to think they're warm and cuddly. Until they can't pay their own debts.
"We should live within our means" we heard during the debt ceiling hostage taking. Except for people like Joe Walsh who doesn't pay his child support.
"We can't keep spending more than we take in" we heard during the debt ceiling hostage taking. Except for Tom Graves who apparently the bank forced to take out a loan greater than he could repay.
Tea Party aligned Georgia Rep. Tom Graves (R), who castigates Washington for fiscal irresponsibility, reached an out of court settlement Wednesday after he was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million loan -- which his attorney argued is the bank's fault for lending him the money in the first place.
I'm sure he's the new people's champion of people who have lost their jobs and can no longer pay their mortgage right? Right.
Graves and his business partner Chip Rogers -- who is the state Senate's Republican majority leader -- took out a $2.2 million loan from the Bartow County Bank in 2007 to buy and renovate a local motel. The project soon went belly-up.
Darn those job creating tax cuts!
Some Graves comments on compromise:
"I was very outspoken against a deal, against a compromise because I feel compromises are what got us into this mess in the first place," Rep. Graves said. "You can not compromise your way out of it."
Um isn't a settlement of an unpaid debt a COMPROMISE?