Posted on 01/03/2013 2:27:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sen. Pat Toomey is one of the great accomplishments of the Tea Party Movement, and after supporting him in ’04 back when Bush was backing Specter, it does my heart good to see him in our dysfunctional deliberate body. For that same reason, some are very angry at him for his vote on the fiscal cliff deal. But as we go into another debt-ceiling fight, he’s one of our better communicators on this issue. So, it also does my heart good to see him go on “Morning Joe,” up against five people who disagree with him, and direct the conversation, over and over, away from the fig leaf of revenue and back to the real issue of entitlements and $16 trillion in debt.
There are some, like Ben Domenech, who think the debt ceiling deal will look much like this one— a short-term get-out-of-jail solution that again doesn’t address our real problems because no one really wants to address them. There are some, like Jim Pethokoukis, who think it’ll end in another tax hike.
If it’s ever going to look any different, with the GOP demanding what’s best for the country— “getting us off the path to Greece,” as Toomey puts it by addressing entitlement reform and maybe tax reform—it’s going to take people like Toomey to explain that, on TV, every single day. Many Americans simply don’t understand the gravity of the debt problem. Democrats and some Republicans are more than happy to feed this misunderstanding by pretending these deals make some kind of progress because it helps them avoid stickier budget wickets.
Toomey’s Wednesday appearance is getting a lot of press because he said the GOP should be willing to risk a temporary government shut-down to get cuts,.....
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MK Ham just another Fox News Liberal masquerading as some “conservative”
Toomey sold out conservatives on the Fiscal Cliff bill
Its time for MK Ham to wake up....and the Liberals who still watch Fox News. Real Conservatives are gonna call you out
That’ll happen right after Boehner’s thrown out as Speaker. Wait, what?!?
By the time the debt-ceiling issue comes up in two months, many more Americans will have adopted Conservative principles, particularly the importance of lowering taxes — after being mugged by the reality of the lower paychecks they will be receiving thanks to the Obama tax increases, both from his fiscal-cliff deal and ObamaCare.
Last year, workers went on strike at the Twinkie Company and in the Chicago school district because, even though their pay was increased, they were angry it wasn’t increased even more. Now, every worker in America will suffer at least a 2% reduction in their take-home pay when payroll taxes are increased by that amount.
Surely, American workers won’t be happy. If Pat Toomey and other Conservatives continue to speak out on the importance of cutting spending rather than raising taxes, they will win many hearts and minds across America for the Conservative cause.
Harry Reid MUST pass a budget first before we even have a conversation...
You need money to fund programs ? Cut spending...duh...
BTW, we don't care if the bloated festering federal purulent government shuts down...
Toomey can stick it in his big fat RINO nose!
Let him come begging for my vote again!
KISS MY BIG FAT HAIRY BUTT AND I STILL WON’T VOTE FOR YOU!
With our brand new speaker with his spine of steel...
Pardon?
oh never mind.
Yea Right!
Drama till the 11th hour and then cave like the bunch of show babies you freakin’ RINOs are.
Let’s see now. Toomey advocates that Congress refuse to pay for bills they approved? Wow, that’s another great GOP winner.
'gimme a break. These are stage actors, they don't care about the Constitution. They just want the rubes to vote them back in and claim to pick up the tough fight! They'll show 'em next time!
TIMES UP
Sounds good. Dream on.
If they had any guts they’d refuse to raise it and demand passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment.
I know you r upset but please know that I am not a rino....I just worked extremely hard to get two tea party candidates elected to the house.
Pat. U voted for a bill two days ago that has 4 Trillion new spending
over 10 Years. And it passed the house. Quit talking out of both sides
of your mouth.
The worse thing about politicians as him; once they get into the system, they forget about the promises that they made to the average citizen (who are more engaged in these political times). I have several relatives who work inside the government (as elected officials). They tell the family they do not want to stir up any hot topic issues so they do not lose a job basically. This is why term limits should be on the platform of a new upcoming presidential candidate.
Many of the political people seek careers and a life of prestigious benefits. This is reality. A reformer with the goods is made out to be an extremist so they lay low up there out of fear and job security. The liberal democrats are mostly mush. Notice many of them are truly ignorant people so they get the job to do what the top people say to do. That’s all that is. This explains why their agenda is advancing.
Many people on the other side are good people though they refuse to be determined for the good of the country so not to be labeled as a extremist. That’s how I feel about my own family that’s up there. I just want someone to fight for the basis of our nation because our country cannot last on the course it’s on. Term limits, we all should demand. Being called a extremist should be a rally cry because politicians as they are now; it’s not working! The current speaker should had been fired today so to begin a new direction. He gave away most everything on principles.
That would require backbone... Boehner and the GOP don’t have a single whole spine among them all...
Yeah cause the last time the GOP shut the government down, the Democrats really suffered as a consequence (rolls eyes).
9 people in the House voted for someone other than John Boehner (RINO) as Speaker of the House. The problem is not just John Boehner. The problem is the entire House of Representatives. These people are not capable of shutting down a coffee break.
House = Useless
Senate = Hopeless
President = Evil incarnate
Agreed. Republicans will get smashed in this fight if they choose to challenge the debt ceiling. Best to leave it alone. I hate to say it, but I believe it to be true.
He voted yea for the bill. Said that if he were in the senate at the time he would have voted to drop “don’t ask don’t tell “.
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