Posted on 11/30/2012 8:26:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is much debate regarding how Republicans ought to handle the fiscal cliff. They are in a showdown with President Obama as to who will blink first.
So my suggestion to them is to take a page from Obama's playbook and kick the can one more time. They should extend the status quo for one more month, to February 1, 2013. The reason behind this strategy is that President Obama is legally required to deliver a budget in January. What that would do is force him to commit his budget to paper. He would be forced to blink.
The Democratic Senate has gone for years without passing a budget. And the President's last budget was tossed aside by the Senate under Majority Leader Harry Reid by a unanimous, bipartisan vote of 0-99. Obama got through his first term by repeatedly blaming his predecessor.
Now, having been re-elected, his predecessor is himself. Unrestrained by the need to run for re-election ever again, he has a totally free hand. His modus operandi is to "lead from behind", but that won't work now. So if the Republicans extend the status quo until he has been forced to perform his presidential duties, they will force him to blink first. That will put the onus for what follows squarely upon his shoulders. All they have to do is say "Yes Sir, Mr. President, after you". They can smile and be sweetly polite.
If he acts, as he has been hinting, in campaign mode as he has done for the last four years, he will bear the legacy forevermore. Bill Clinton accepted sane Republican fiscal reform when he lost to Newt Gingrich's Contract with America. Clinton got to claim the credit anyway because that change took place at mid-term for the presidential election cycle.
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agree to his tax hikes and nothing else, no more bailouts and then we can say we went with what obama wanted, we tried to work but they gave us nothing, they have not brought the debt down and now they have the top 2@ paying more and it;s not enough so now they want those who pay less to pay more.
Oh and will this pathetic cowardly GOP call out this media, the corrupt bastards have led for years, given us a load of crap Dems, they have twisted the truth.
Call them out, name names, make AD’s showing their bias and call them out on their own networks.
enough is enough and if folks on here and other sites and the GOP is not going to go after the media then kiss 2016 good bye
“And to think he will not run again, in violation of the Constitution, is ludicrous. He has almost absolute power; he will not surrender it peacefully or willingly.”
No, I’m sorry, but yours is the ludicrous assertion. He doesn’t have anything close to absolute power, even though he might think he does. If he really did, we wouldn’t be commenting on this article, because it wouldn’t exist. He’d already have done whatever he wanted, because he wouldn’t need to screw around with Congress or worry about public fallout.
Also, he has no need to try and make an end run around the Constitution, when he could just put Michelle Obama up in 2016 and all the lemmings would rush to vote for her.
Well, then it would seem, even if he submits one, he probably wouldn’t care if it had a snowball’s chance in hell of passing. He could scribble something on a coctail napkin, wipe his nose with it, and toss it to Harry Reid to satisfy the legalities. What’s it matter to him? He’ll never take any blame for anything as long as the media has his back.
Obama and his fellow Communists in the Congress and Media will drive this country off the cliff just as surely as the unions bankrupted the Hostess company. They are all of the same mentality. If they have to utterly destroy this country to impose Communism, so be it, they’ll do it.
And I didn’t mean “you” as in you. I meant “you” as in the idiots who keep voting to get back at “The Evil Rich”. The Middle Class is nothing more than the cash cow that creates a nice buffer between the Nobles and the Peasants.
Primary Fight? I wouldn’t put it past the O’s. I prefer neither candidate. haah
Let’s revisit this in 2016 and see who’s assertion is ludicrous.
Force him to commit his budget to paper.He will never list spending cuts because all he knows is spending stimulus,bail outs.....................
Yes, let’s.
Some of that short-term pain will be felt by those who, under the Bush tax cuts, paid no taxes but will be forced to if they are allowed to expire.
And they put this guy back into office.
Sometimes people have to learn the hard way. Share the suffering.
I like it. It will be hard for Obama II to blame Obama I.
It could be done, but you’d need mirrors, a fog machine and a complicit media.
And we have another writer who believes that the Democrat leaders think like him. He may care about a realistic budget, but the Democrats? Please. Obama will just pull out the old smoke and mirrors. The leaders of the Democrat party are grifters.....con men....pickpockets. We have got to stop thinking that they care even a little bit about this country or our people. They are out to enrich themselves. They pretend to be Democrats to get elected so they can enrich themselves. The real crooks go for the big money. And the biggest money is our federal treasury.
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
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