Category Archives: American Politics

DeMint to Force Another Senate Vote on Cut, Cap, Balance

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YES!  This is what the damned House needs to support.  The House passed Cut, Cap and Balance (CCB), and the Senate tabled it.  They did not kill it.  Tabling a bill leaves it in limbo until it is actually killed, rescued, or the session ends (IIRC).

“The bipartisan House-passed Cut, Cap, Balance bill remains the only plan on the table, the only one that preserves our AAA rating, and is only four Democrat votes away from a Senate majority to end this debt crisis,” said Senator DeMint. “I will work to force another vote on Cut, Cap & Balance next week because the President and Democrats have not offered the American people any other viable solution.

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Dollar/Years Proposal

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This is not rocket science; it is basic math.

Do you see the horseshit in here?  From Eric Cantor’s blog:

In its first year, 2012, the revised bill cuts $22 billion as measured against the latest CBO baseline (while the original bill cut just $1 billion), and in the second year it cuts $42 billion (while the original cut $16 billion). These are still very small numbers in the scheme of federal spending, but the greater front-loading actually matters a lot. One reason is that the 2012 and 2013 budgets are the only ones that will actually be under the control of this congress. But even more important is the greater reduction of the baseline itself since, as we’ve witnessed in the … Continue reading →

Tea Party Lessons Learned for the GOP

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I do not like Speaker Boehner’s bill, although I thank him for much of what he has accomplished so far.  But we need not bother to fight and make gains if our effort is to be thrown away with lousy, worse-than-status-quo bills like the one currently under consideration.  Among its problems are several assumptions baked into it:

  • Must raise debt ceiling: what an awful place to start negotiations
  • ObamaCare need not be de-funded in whole: if it were being de-funded, I am sure you would have told us
  • CBO baseline acceptable starting point for calculations: as opposed to raw spending
  • 2011 an acceptable baseline year: as opposed to 2008 or 2007.
  • “Supercommittee” acceptable in our form of government: as opposed to merely legal, if even that
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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 →