{"id":6123,"date":"2011-08-25T04:26:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2011-08-25T04:26:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T19:26:33","slug":"debt-deal-is-arranged-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/debt-deal-is-arranged-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt Deal: Arranged Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[dc]I[\/dc]t&#8217;s the grift that keeps on grifting.\u00a0 They dodge responsibility and fund our destruction in the short term, while deferring even worse decisions to a\u00a0&#8220;bipartisan&#8221; group.\u00a0 I am proud to have opposed this arranged defeat, the debt ceiling compromise bill, <a title=\"Collapse of Talks Most Constructive News Yet\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/23\/collapse-of-talks-most-constructive-news-yet\/\">here <\/a>, <a title=\"Obamacalypse Now; CCB Yes, Boehner Plan HELL NO\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/28\/obamacalypse-now-ccb-yes-boehner-plan-hell-no\/\">here <\/a>, <a title=\"Dollar\/Years Proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/29\/dollaryears-proposal\/\">here <\/a>, <a title=\"President Arafat Rejects Boehner\u2019s Camp David Offer\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/30\/president-arafat-rejects-boehners-camp-david-offer\/\">here <\/a>and <a title=\"Hugh Hewitt Oddly Surprised By Democrat Shenanigans\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/08\/01\/hugh-hewitt-oddly-surprised-by-democrat-shenanigans\/\">here<\/a>, among other posts and places.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Barnhardt\u00a0is quite focused on how bad this deal was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I stand here in abject stupefaction.\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;right&#8221; or &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; 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 . . . and they honesty think that they&#8217;re &#8220;winning.&#8221;\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 You call this winning?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Obama gets over $2 Trillion to spend before the 2012 election<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; There are no real spending cuts<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; There is a massive tax increase effective January 1, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama is going to be handed something in excess of $2 Trillion &#8212; and he has made it perfectly clear that he will spend every penny of it before the November 2012 election.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why he kept saying, &#8221; . . . so we don&#8217;t have to do this again&#8221;, meaning raise the debt ceiling again.\u00a0 The debt ceiling would only need to be raised if all of the money had been spent.\u00a0 Therefore, he has stated very clearly that he will spend every penny of any debt ceiling increase.\u00a0 He is going to burn through $2 Trillion-plus in the next sixteen months.\u00a0 This was the Obama regime&#8217;s plan from day one.\u00a0 Geithner appeared before Congress in early May and told them this in no uncertain terms.\u00a0 This outcome has been a known quantity all along.<\/p>\n<p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/we_the_stupid.html\">The American Thinker<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more.\u00a0 Read the whole thing.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to agree with all of her conclusions to admit that her facts are correct.\u00a0 I pointed out many of these facts on this blog; many more are things which had escaped my consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The smart kids are now pointing out that the bank problems we have seen are nothing compared to what will happen as the first wave of health care provider failures begins to mount.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen an estimated timeline, but you may rest assured it\u00a0starts in the next Presidential term if not before.<\/p>\n<p>We are in deep kim-chee right now, not later.\u00a0 Later comes collapse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6123\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6123\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[dc]I[\/dc]t&#8217;s the grift that keeps on grifting.\u00a0 They dodge responsibility and fund our destruction in the short term, while deferring even worse decisions to a\u00a0&#8220;bipartisan&#8221; group.\u00a0 I am proud to have opposed this arranged defeat, the debt ceiling compromise bill, <a title=\"Collapse of Talks Most Constructive News Yet\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/23\/collapse-of-talks-most-constructive-news-yet\/\">here <\/a>, <a title=\"Obamacalypse Now; CCB Yes, Boehner Plan HELL NO\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/28\/obamacalypse-now-ccb-yes-boehner-plan-hell-no\/\">here <\/a>, <a title=\"Dollar\/Years Proposal\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/29\/dollaryears-proposal\/\">here <\/a>, <a title=\"President Arafat Rejects Boehner\u2019s Camp David Offer\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/07\/30\/president-arafat-rejects-boehners-camp-david-offer\/\">here <\/a>and <a title=\"Hugh Hewitt Oddly Surprised By Democrat Shenanigans\" href=\"http:\/\/NOLINKYET\/2011\/08\/01\/hugh-hewitt-oddly-surprised-by-democrat-shenanigans\/\">here<\/a>, among other posts and places.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Barnhardt\u00a0is quite focused on how bad this deal was:<\/p>\n<p>I stand here in abject stupefaction.\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;right&#8221; or &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/debt-deal-is-arranged-defeat\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,240,244,251,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-conservative","category-freedom","category-marxism","category-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}