Calling John Bonehead....Calling John Bonehead....Where are you?
Good to know that the fear of a voter backlash might not be as warranted as we think.
Now to beat the union media blitz in OH, WI, NH, etc...
Senator Kyl....you have a message...get a brain.
I’m not buying this. When the government shut down during the Clinton administration, even though it was Clinton’s fault. the voters still blamed the GOP. If the government shuts down we’re going to lose momentum at the least and quite likely congressional seats as a result.
Coincidently, I believe I read recently that 31% of the people are getting checks of some form or another from the government. Social Security or work for the government.
With Boner up there unable and unwilling to lead on this, I don’t see much getting done till we have a new speaker running the show.
Offer a guarantee of $100Bn in cuts and I’ll bet the percentage would jump up another 10 points.
Be careful what you wish for....Just saying!
Mike
It's a long way to election. There's a lotta other stuff going down right now - and a lot more to come.
a shut down won't last that long and will soon be forgotten
So Stand up, Bone-head and other wuzzes.
b.s.
if the pubies do a newtered 2,
they’ll be done.
However, I have been giving it a lot of thought.
As I look back, and try and analyze why we lost to the Dear Leader in 08 it looks to me as if we beat ourselves.
In Fla. Charlie Crist, a deadhead Rino who is only one of many RINOs who have been creating havoc in the party for years now, made a deal with the Miami Cubans to support McCain. It was enough to swing Fla. McCains' way.
After that another rino or near rino the huckster, ran shotgun for McCain staying in the race long after he should have gotten out and assuring a victory for McCain by taking away valuable votes Romney(not that Romney is anywhere near a Palin) could have gotten. Supposedly in hopes of getting a VP shot.
Neither the Huckster nor Crist got the job since McCain has a habit of deserting people in a heartbeat for any ol' reason.
This time it may have backfired on his rino ways since we got Sarah into the picture.
Long story short, it occurs to me that the smart thing to do is not to strategically lose the 2012 election before they even happen by giving the DBM/RNC al kinds of ammo to help us beat ourselves again. They are dying to claim we won't compromise with Harry Reed and settle for a pittance of budget cuts.
Truth is whether we get 30/60/100 or 400 billion in cuts its way short of the 1.6 trillion we need.
To do anything meaningful about saving the country from sure financial collapse we need both houses and the Presidency and a balanced budget.Even then we still have to fight off the rinos.
We might as well do everything we can to assure we get all three branches rather than start a fight we can't win over a pittance of money that will not matter at all.
In addition it appears that Dingy Harry has already decided he can get major league points by doing nothing as they usually do and then claiming we would not compromise with them.
I say take anything we can get from them and then show, tell and display to the American people in an endless fashion how the dems are destroying the country and we are the only party that actually gives a dam about the country.
The msm will try to ignore it but it will become increasingly hard to do. And it may save the election in 2012 for us.
Hold all pay and perks and vacations from the critters until they come up with a massive spending cut,but it wouldn’t take long.
A higher percentage than voted for Obama... but you’ll never hear the media mention a thing along those lines.
If Boo-Hoo Boner caves it will prove to me the election meant absolutely nothing and no election is going to save this country. It will be no different than the dems ramming obamacare down the Americans’ throats even though the people were against it.
This is why we can't even send any sausage, pepperoni, etc to the troops - NO PORK PRODUCTS allowed in country.
I say it's the best weapon and could send the cretins running for the hills - and caves - and rat holes.
To hell with rules - should be a bit illegal for them to be beheading people
It is very simple:
1) Wealth cannot be printed into usable form. If we continue to pay past debts we owe to party A by issuing new debt and borrowing from party B, we are just digging ourselves deeper into perpetual debt;
2) There are only so many jelly beans in the jar. There is only so much wealth in the country and only so much income. We must live within our means
3) We used to be prosperous enough to afford the luxury of giving in to liberal demands for unsustainable programs. Those days are over. We must focus on funding core government functions. There will be nothing left over. If this means that we must restructure any/all entitlement programs, so be it.
4) The federal government owns over 50% of the land west of the Mississippi. We must be very hard-nosed and sell all government assets that we absolutely do not need and use the proceeds to pay down the debt, and not for the operating budget.
5) We must curtail and end the government’s ability to create operating funds out of thin air. This means we must restructure the Federal Reserve, that is once we do a complete audit so we can finally know what its real financial situation is, and how much gold it still owns free and clear. (Yes, I think the Fed still holds gold at Ft. Knox. The unknown is how much of that gold is encumbered in some way.)
6) The Federal government has curtailed oil and natural gas development. That must be reversed. Further, it has also curtailed mineral exploration and development in an area of the US that is about the size of the Louisiana Purchase. Since when is it smart to depend on China for the rare earths we need for our own jet fighters and supercomputers?
7) The internet is the new Free Press. We must never allow government to seize control of the internet or to censor net content.
Government shutting down is a good thing. It’s not like they are busy reducing our burdens in any way.