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Obamacalypse Now; CCB Yes, Boehner Plan HELL NO

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Now is no time to stay wobbly, GOP!

Obama’s support is collapsing among his base, Congress, even the media, and I suspect Obama himself.  This job is just no fun when you no longer get your way and your tantrums stop working.

Oh, and the stimulus failed to produce jobs but hurt us grievously with debt, the recovery never got started after all, and the culprit is your ugly baby ObamaCare.  Here’s a chart I have pulled from a devastating, straightforward analysis by Heritage:

The analysis even details the data sources, and statistical methods used.

Friday night’s “Talks Collapse” appearance showed us a President angry and disorganized, having called an impromptu press conference to whine that Republicans are mean. … Continue reading →

Cut, Cap, Balance is the Only Plan We Will Offer

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The choice for Senate Democrats is this: Pass Cut, Cap, Balance (CCB) now, or after you get jack-hammered for blowing through the debt ceiling.  There will be no other deal. This is the only way the House will accept any raise of the debt ceiling. Go ahead–call our bluff. We don’t even believe in your lurid doomsday story.

The Tea Party did not cause this problem, and did not push it to the twelfth hour, but we will solve it.  I am aware of the feckless Gang of Six proposal, which will never pass the House, and the now-fading McConnell plan, which will never pass the House.

The House of Representatives holds a veto on money, and after the democrats and the GOP leadership abused conservative principles so … Continue reading →

Collapse of Talks Most Constructive News Yet

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The media refers to this as a “collapse”.  The only thing collapsing is the self-sustaining bubble of nonsense that to date has protected the media and their creation, Barack Milhouse Obama (h/t Mark Levin).  The unconstitutional machinations of the 111th Congress and their leftover President are being halted and will be rolled back.

I sincerely hope that conservatives are able to hold this door open past the laughable August second “deadline”, when the only thing that happens is the Democrats are exposed as a bunch of fear-mongering liars who want to boost the money under their control simply for the sake of boosting the amount of money under their control.

So call his bluff.  The unfortunate McConnell deal must of course be ignored if not shredded and burned, … Continue reading →

Thank You Boehner, McConnell; Let's Do Some More

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[Update:  I don’t know what Leader McConnell’s cockamamie scheme is supposed to accomplish, but for now I’ll simply assume it’s a delaying tactic, and on that basis not argue about it too much.]

GOOD SHOW, Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell, in telling the President to find more revenues where the sun don’t shine!  I am officially off the war path of abandoned-by-my-party indignation (as promised), and I think that if you message this right, you can win back a lot of Tea Party support, so foolishly squandered in the Continuing Resolution debacle–bygones.  You’ve already done the hard work–now get the word out.  I’ll help.

[pullquote]Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday[/pullquote]

Here’s what else I’ll help with: Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday. … Continue reading →

Reagan. Reykjavik. Boehner.

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[Update: So far, so good.  Keep it up!  Speaker Boehner, if we make it to August 2nd without a deal, for what it’s worth I will be back on the GOP bandwagon, and I will encourage everybody I know to come along.  Good show so far; KEEP IT UP.  Thank you!]

Short and simple: Speaker Boehner has an opportunity to regain some trust from the Tea Party which put him in his chair.

The opportunity here is the same as that presented to President Reagan at Reykjavik. Like Reagan, he has been presented a choice between rapid defeat and slow defeat.  Reagan refused to play by the rules set forth in places like the defeatist, accommodationist New York Times.   He walked away, and far from being empty-handed, … Continue reading →

Time Magazine Debases Constitution

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“If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so.” — Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of Time Magazine, and former President and CEO of the National Constitution Center.

Please help share the linked article from which the following quote is taken.

The fourteen factual errors in the recent Time article are actually a big deal because the author of that awful piece, Richard Stengel, holds an incredibly influential position.

The author is not only the Managing Editor for Time, but he spent two years as President and CEO of the National Constitution Center. And even today, he works with the National Constitution Center’s Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, whose stated mission is “to help both professional journalists and students … Continue reading →

"Cut, Cap, Balance" A Bunch of Unicorn Poop

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[Update: 19JUL2011: Cut Cap and Balance is going for a vote as early as today, in the House. I support it fully. I am pleased with the fight so far shown by the Speaker and the Leader, and while I do not agree with everything, I can hardly make that my condition for support. We must offer support whenever possible, and be blunt about when we feel support is not possible. I sincerely think that efforts such as refusing to “sign any more damned pledges” makes for a more attentive GOP and a Republican presence worth defending and expanding in Washington. Who knows: they might even pull off the cut and the cap this time. I might justsign the next pledge, if they can manage not to … Continue reading →

Obamacare Death Star Will Strike Soon

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Excellent write-up by Senator Jim DeMint.  Here’s a part, the whole ting is quite good.

Obama’s use of waivers also conceals the financial blowout that is coming in 2014. More than three million Americans haven’t seen any changes in their health insurance, yet because the president gave them a waiver, provided they first prove that ObamaCare would hike their premiums or slash their benefits.

But, all those waivers expire in 2014. And when the waivers are no longer available, rising costs will force businesses to push their employees off of private plans into the government system.

Caterpillar Corp. has said it could save 70 percent on health care costs by dropping coverage and paying the penalties. AT&T’s $2.4 billion in annual health care expenses would drop to just … Continue reading →

Intent

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[pullquote]The constitution means now what it did long ago.[/pullquote]

I don’t much care for the term “original intent”. The constitution has a meaning and that meaning does not change over time. Time does pass and things do change, but if there was intent at the beginning then that intent can hardly change when the ones who intended are gone.

There is exactly one way to change the meaning of the constitution, and that is through Amendments. Anything else is interpretation, which is good and absolutely necessary to the functioning of society, but it does not supplant the intent. Unfortunately, many today believe that interpretation does supplant intent either from their own ignorance or the ignorance of their teachers. Don’t believe it.

The constitution means now what it did … Continue reading →

Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge is a Trojan Horse

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The more I think about this, the more I vehemently dislike this pledge idea.  Stop talking, and just fight.

[pullquote]We already had a pledge and the Republicans sold us down the river.  This is just more of Lucy and the football.[/pullquote]

There are several honest Republicans pushing this idea, but it’s still rotten.  This is marketed as an offense to be used against Democrats, but in fact, it is a defense to shield Republicans from the base.  This is establishment Republicans trying to convince us that the way to win in Washington is to help them convince their democrat friends to vote with the Republicans.

That is the wrong answer.  This is just more of Lucy and the football.  We do not need to expend a single … Continue reading →