Posted on 01/01/2013 4:57:01 PM PST by i88schwartz
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's possible that this is a prelude to a challenge, Thursday, to Boehner's leadership by Eric Cantor. I think it would be quite naked to do it at this late hour as a result of a split over the vote.
Look, there are a lot of conservatives in the Republican caucus in the House who hate the bill, and for good reason. This is a complete surrender on everything. The ratio of tax hikes to spending cuts is 40:1 rather than 1:1, or 1:2 or 1:3. So, it was a complete rout by the Democrats. So it's understandable.
I think what's likely to happen is that the leadership is going to look to get the 218 that it could secure to send the bill back to the Senate with an equal number of spending cuts. If they don’t get it, I think what Boehner will do is have an open vote -- as you say, unwhipped. Republicans will vote as they wish. They'll probably be enough with all the Democrats to pass this.
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saw this coming since the debt ceiling “deal”
I think I’m getting ill as the realization of how close the end of our country really is
Suckers, all of us. We thought by voting for the “R” candidates that we were getting Republicans, not just more Democrats. F’ them all, it’s sickening.
I loathe, dispose, and hurl at the Obamadork.
I just wish I could flush Bonehead....the most useless “thing” since the appendix.
No doubt. This will be a historic rout of the Bonehead led GOP.
A cave of epic proportion .
Sorry, but this guy doesn't impress me at all. He'll most likely come out next week instructing us on Boehner’s brilliance.
This guy is nothing but an establishment type who helped push this crap on us.
We got Republicans not conservatives. And, we are paying for it now.
Krauthammer-bashing is oh-so fashionable amongst a certain element on FR.
Please provide me with one -- just one -- cite that illustrates your assertion. Until then, I will assume you're just following the crowd to be popular.
I am still trying to understand what the House GOP was supposed to do. They had one chance to set the terms with the Plan B option. That was killed in pursuit of purism. So, what else? I am totally lost here.
I am still trying to understand what the House GOP was supposed to do. They had one chance to set the terms with the Plan B option. That was killed in pursuit of purism. So, what else? I am totally lost here.
I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life.
I have no intention of ever voting for a Republican again. What’s the point?
I’m a third party man now. But, really, I don’t think the electoral process matters anymore. Nothing will change until after the war.
The trouble with kicking the can down the road, as a strategy to cope with the looming problems, is that eventually you run out of road.
The web of “social safety net” programs, which has so successfully ensnared such a large part of the voting public, is eventually going to have to cut back, paying something like the equivalent of pennies on the dollar, if it is not simply abandoned altogether. We have seen these schemes collapse elsewhere, and the human wreckage is pitiful to look upon. When corrective measures finally are taken, they shall be much more draconian than most people now imagine. Real privation, real starvation, is a haunting probability, if not a certainty.
It does not have to be. Probably 75% of the problem that we face is the rigidly doctrinaire application of a program to “change” the nature of this country “fundamentally”, by implementation of poorly-thought-out social engineering schemes.
The marketplace is thought, by some, to be much too chaotic, and must be regulated with a firm hand, punitive if necessary, just to keep down “excesses”, though it is never explained just why these “excesses” are not part of the greater good. The “excesses” are what fund all real human progress, building the factories and laboratories and research institutes, and powering the everyday commerce between people.
You asked for one — just one — cite that illustrates the fact that Krauthammer is an establishment type:
http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/01/13/krauthammer-trashes-palin-praises-obama/
Face it people, it’s over. Sad but a fact. Sad for my grandchildren.
Face it people, it’s over. Sad but a fact. Sad for my grandchildren.
Face it people, it’s over. Sad but a fact. Sad for my grandchildren.
Face it people, it’s over. Sad but a fact. Sad for my grandchildren.
Face it people, it’s over. Sad but a fact. Sad for my grandchildren.
Face it people, it’s over. Sad but a fact. Sad for my grandchildren.
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