100 Republican Votes at Stake if Major Cuts Not Made in First Year of Debt Deal, GOP Freshman Warns

CNSNews ^ | 7/13/11 | Fred Lucas

[CNSNews]

Washington (CNSNews.com) – As many as 100 Republicans would not vote for a negotiated debt ceiling increase if it does not include significant cuts in the first year, according to Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.). The freshman lawmaker said he and other freshmen members see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to curb uncontrolled spending.

During a Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Huelskamp, “How important is it that you get the cuts early, in the context of a 10-year plan?”

“Someone asked that in conference this morning: Why aren’t the cuts in the first year?,” Huelskamp replied. “Neither side will tell you what the cuts are in the first year, even the folks that are negotiating for us. If the cuts are not made this year, then when will they be?”

[Gaffer]

The constituent orders I’ve given my congressman are: no debt increase, decrease spending NOW dammit, and stop ANY Friggin’ thing Obama wants to do. The MSM may hate him. His peers (loosely called as Democrats and RINOs) may hate him, and Obama may hate him, but in my book if he does that, he’s got my vote and that’s all that counts by damn.

[daler]

And is repealing/defunding Obamacare now simply another forgotten GOP campaign promise?

[shield]

IF the freshman congressmen aren’t being told...then we’re back to square 1...no effin’ deal.

[ScottinVA]

And is repealing/defunding Obamacare now simply another forgotten GOP campaign promise?

Exactly. Didn't the 0-boy demand everyone sacrifice their sacred cows? And how come Michele Bachmann is the only one publicly calling for this?

[Gaffer]

The reason Obama is vehmently dogged about the debt increase is that it requires money to implement his Deathcare plan for us infidels. If you don’t increase the ceiling, he can’t implement his plan because he’d have to make some tough decisions about what to pay for and he loses either way. Too many dolers out there and not enough money.

[TexasFreeper2009]

any tax hikes will take effect immediately or maybe even retroactively, while any cuts will be spread across the next 10 or more years with the majority of them being weighted to the tail end.

Just watch.

[screaminsunshine]

I agree with Rush. Get rid of the stupid debt limit. The elected reps. need to fight it out. We gave the House the power. Let them exercise it or be replaced.

[EGPWS]

As many as 100 Republicans would not vote for a negotiated debt ceiling increase if it does not include significant cuts in the first year, according to Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.).

So we went from "No new taxes" and "No debt ceiling increase" to just "no new taxes" today?

What is it going to be tomorrow, raise the debt ceiling, raise taxes, and increase spending?

[Jim Robinson]

Repeal ObamaCare or no deal! Deal? What deal? The REPUBLICAN congress controls the spending and the taxes. The REPUBLICAN congress should pass the bills to repeal ObamaCare, cut the spending and cut the taxes. Let the Democrats be the party of no. Then fight it out right up to election day. See which side the people prefer on election day!

[arthurus]

No portion of any deal regarding the debt ceiling matters. The only significant act will be the authorization of more debt. The Republicans will lose when they raise the debt ceiling. The economy lost long ago. Republicans, in the same way as Democrats, are Keynesians. They "know" deep in their bones that the government must grease the wheels for an appearance of some sort of free market. They khow in their DNA that the world and the Economy can only be run by an elite that employs the Experts that are required to make the economy work. They understand at the same time but more superficially that the government should get out of the way but we are, after all, in depression, and they are so afraid of not appearing to "do something" that they will, they must, DO SOMETHING. So the economic decline will be smoothed out a little more so that the collapse, when it comes(WHEN it comes, not if) will be deeper and of longer duration if not. We call it "kicking the can down the road." Somewhere this road ends in a cliff and the exits ahead are fewer and harder to get to, the offramps describe tighter and tighter turns, harder and harder for politicians to make the decision to get off this road.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it will be the beginning of the Tea Party becoming a real Party

[joe fonebone]

100 tea party freshmen?? Hell, they CONTROL the house, if they were organized and had the balls (looks like they may have found them)....nothing would pass or fail without their votes....NOTHING....hell, they could get judges impeached, roll back entitlements, eliminate entire branches of the fed, or else the establishment repubs would look like establishment retards...

[arthurus]

The Republican Party is a conservative party. They do not wish to innovate but they will staunchly conserve the system as it is. The new medical care laws are too potentially lucrative as vote buyers. They, just as much as the Democrats, can tweak and fiddle and adjust to appear to improve things for particular vote rich groups but they will not repeal any part of the new system. That would not be "conservative."

We do not need any conservatives in Washington. We need REACTIONARIES.

[pabianice]

Alas, my congressman is Richard “Stinky” Neal (Communist - 2nd MA district).

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The only significant act will be the authorization of more debt.”

And that is the statement of the year. Everything else is smoke and mirrors. Obama wants to send more, he wants Congress to approve it, then the MSM will go after Republicans for raising taxes.

[muawiyah]

The current Congress has its first chance to defund ObamaKKKare coming up now.

It's not likely Obama will sign the appropriations act(s) that don't fund it.

The government will shut down anyway over the ObamaKKKare issue.

[muawiyah]

The House can vote anything it wants. It has to get the concurrence of the Senate.

Have you taken a look who runs the Senate?

[muawiyah]

The House can vote anything it wants. It has to get the concurrence of the Senate.

Have you taken a look who runs the Senate?

[joe fonebone]

senate cannot vote on a bill it does not receive...send it to them, and make them go on the record with their vote..