Posted on 11/02/2013 2:30:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
If you followed the recent goings-on in Washington this past month, you are aggravated. I understand. This has been a frustrating time for me, and for anybody who wants to see our country on a sustainable fiscal path.
After almost three weeks in shutdown mode, Congress extended government funding and raised the debt ceiling by several hundred billion dollars with nothing to show for it - no reforms that rein in our country's deficits and debt, no spending constraints, no changes whatsoever.
While this result is disappointing, I hope we will see a more fruitful outcome in December as members of the House and Senate meet over the next two months to iron out a budget. I will serve as a member of this conference committee. While the chances of us reaching an agreement are uncertain, I will be adamant about the need for fiscal discipline.
We need to keep the 2011 bipartisan spending caps in place. However, I'd like to give the administration and agency managers greater flexibility to prioritize, fund, or cut programs under these caps. Finally, to ensure that we do not face another shutdown in the future, I will be working to pass legislation that will keep the government funded if Congress does not pass appropriations bills.
We must stop lurching from crisis to crisis. Our country needs less spending, not more. Washington needs more commonsense governing, not less. Most of all, the American people need leadership. I believe we can take real steps to avert future fiscal cliffs and shutdowns while holding fast on modest spending restraints. Finding common ground on reining in spending, without sacrificing principles, is possible. I will work with members of both parties to achieve it.
(Excerpt) Read more at toomey.senate.gov ...
Sen. Pat Toomey 'Terribly Disappointed' in Supercommittee's Failure
His key point, obscured in the smoke he's blowing, is this:
"Finally, to ensure that we do not face another shutdown in the future, I will be working to pass legislation that will keep the government funded if Congress does not pass appropriations bills."
This is McConnell's plan---give away Congress' power of the purse.
Mitch McConnell tells donors: No more shutdowns
It looks like "conservative" Toomey has drawn the assignment of doing it, or at least paving the way.
Why couldn’t the Allies work with the Nazis to “solve” the World War II crisis?
Representatives and Senators who lack the stomach for doing their jobs ought not to hold those jobs.
it’s just that simple.
I have come to believe that change will only come from the bottom up, localy, village, town, county, state if it happeneds at all. Seems like we are in the throws of the fall of the roman empire senario
I thought they already gave Obama the power to raise the debt limit on his own.
Wasn’t that part of the last deal our republican heroes signed off on?
It was not permanent...Obama’s temporary open limit credit card ends in March, I believe.
Toomey, working towards a better capitulation.
For the children!
/ sarc
We need term limits. Re-election is the prime factor in the corruption of our entire political system.
The other side will not negotiate in good faith.
Toomey voted to allow openly gays in the military. Nuff said...
When you cross the aisle to compromise with a communist, you still get some communism in the final product.
We need term limits. Re-election is the prime factor in the corruption of our entire political system.
We need term limits, like we need another hole in our heads. Reelection is not corruption for truly principled people but term limits if you could ever get them, throws out the good with the bad. Recognition of truly principled candidates by a Constitutionally educated electorate would be preferable IMHO.
“Representatives and Senators who lack the stomach for doing their jobs ought not to hold those jobs.”
Agree. The other side, Democrats/Liberals, define working together as Republicans and Conservatives bending over grabbing their ankles and capitulating to their wishes. Personally, I don’t want to work with Democrats. I want to defeat them - along with any RINO’s up for election.
There is one party in Washington: The Re-Election Party, dedicated to the personal enrichment of its members at tax payer expense. Rob Portman, Lamar Alexander, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Pat Toomey—the list goes on and on. Conservatives who become RAT go-alongs.
Once they realize that their true prime directive is to save their jobs, the deals are done an the are owned. Re-election is the source or corruption in our entire system.
They did.
That is why Hitler was able to act like a democrat and take over most of Europe.
Its “frustrating” that “both sides” can’t “get together” and find a solution.
I think I’m going to puke. Hey Pat, the Dems’ solution is to keep saying no until you give in. That’s their “solution” and you’re too stupid or weak-willed to stop them.
There are moral implications for those who are stewards of the people's money; they treat it so lightly and talk about government spending as if it were all their money (I guess the stuff they print is, but not our tax dollars).
At this point the Republicans should shut ‘er down ‘till we get a real honest to God, constitutional budget. There simply cannot be any accountability for spending without a budget.
Sooner or later the day of reckoning will have to come. Better that we do the reckoning ourselves.
Psalm 37:21 “The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again:...”
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