"We ALWAYS do what we are told ... by the MSM and Democrats.
Isn't that why you voted for us?"
Posted on 01/18/2013 12:22:16 PM PST by Zakeet
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says in a statement:
Fitch Ratings agency recently said, if the debt limit is raised without substantive deficit reduction, our nation's credit rating could be downgraded. The President's plan to simply borrow more money without any reform in Washington puts us all at risk.The first step to fixing this problem is to pass a budget that reduces spending. The House has done so, and will again. The Democratic Senate has not passed a budget in almost four years, which is unfair to hardworking taxpayers who expect more from their representatives. That ends this year.
We must pay our bills and responsibly budget for our future. Next week, we will authorize a three month temporary debt limit increase to give the Senate and House time to pass a budget. Furthermore, if the Senate or House fails to pass a budget in that time, Members of Congress will not be paid by the American people for failing to do their job. No budget, no pay.
This is the first step to get on the right track, reduce our deficit and get focused on creating better living conditions for our families and children. It's time to come together and get to work.
Charles Krauthammer endorsed this strategy in his column today:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Better get their budget BEFORE they raise the debt limit, otherwise the Senate will renege.
If they want to kick the can then it sould be "We will raise the debt limit for THREE DAYS and if no budget is forthcoming in that time, NO MORE RAISES, EVER!!!"
I can understand your pessimism....I have some of that, too. But I don’t think that it is an unreasonable position to insist on no deficit spending in our yearly budgets, or at least on a short-term plan to balance it. We all have to live with the realization of that in our private affairs - the government should have to do the same.
We have a certified explosion in entitlement spending. It is the primary cause of our ongoing dilemma. Obama raised it $1.2 Trillion in 2012 over dozens of government entitlement programs not connected with Social Security and Medicare, and he wants to increase it even more to keep Democrats in power for 2014.
How can Republicans decide on how much to raise the debt limit if they don't have a budget plan?
Best to wait until the democrats give them something, so they know how much will be needed.
They are not even worthy of being called dish rags. It is not so much that they are spineless but that they are actively working against us.
Here the Republican bastards go again...going along to get along.
We need to impeach them all and fill the seats with trained dogs or monkeys that will do the will of the people...conservative that is.
"We ALWAYS do what we are told ... by the MSM and Democrats.
Isn't that why you voted for us?"
Of course, evil harry reid will now produce a “budget”
with lots of pork and spending increases and when the House balks, it will be the same old blame it on the gop line—”we did what they asked and the gop controlled House still won’t pass it”.
so the GOPe will give it to them in echange for a hollow promise?
” Can Kickers” El Supremo
Verily!
Short term plan to balance the budget, sure. All I am saying is don't email your congresscritters things that aren't in the realm of possibility. They just disregard those communications as unserious. Opposition to amnesty and defense of the 2nd amendment are already baseline conservative positions, so definitely remind you're elected officials you'll hold them accountable on those.
We're drowning in debt, no doubt. But like I said, even Ron Paul's trillion dollar cuts didn't balance the budget in one year. There will have to be a debt ceiling increase, and even under the best scenarios there is going to be a deficit in the near term.
The public is more with Obama on this stuff. I'm sorry, I wish it wasn't so. If the government gets shut down because the Tea Party demands a total balanced budget and no increase of the debt limit, the Tea Party folks would be run out of office (actually they'd cave to public pressure) and cease to be a viable entity. The public is just not there for that right now.
Nope, but they can make things not happen since they control the purse.
Someone please remind me again why we have a Congress?
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