Posted on 06/21/2011 1:29:53 PM PDT by 92nina
...With August 2nd quickly approaching, negotiations on the debt ceiling are coming down to the wire. Senate Republicans face pressure from the left to make concessions on massive tax increases in return for promised spending cuts. The budget compromise fiascos of 1982 and 1990 are classic examples of what Congressional Republicans should strive to avoid. In both cases, spending cuts and tax increases were agreed upon, but the spending cuts never materialized. For this reason, all forms of tax increases should be off the table when it comes to confronting the government’s severe overspending problem.
Read more: http://www.atr.org/senate-republicans-holding-firm-against-tax-a6264#ixzz1PwYYlMCj
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
The House is where the action has to be.
The House will need to grow a pair as well.
Agreed, but Senate filibusters are useful just-in-case.
There will be no more Republican Party if they cave on this one.
I think the the Republicans are scared of the pitchforks- I'm sharpening mine.
"Never, never, never give up!" ~ Winston Churchill
To thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare
Every wall is a door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Moliere
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Senate Republicans Holding Firm Against Tax Increases
Means absolutely nothing... August 2nd is an eternity away. Watch how quickly they fall apart once it edges closer to August... these gutless pansies can’t help themselves.
Who should pay for the Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan war costs - throw a few more grandmas off the bridge or dump a few more teachers? Or just get out of there.
The democrats want the republcans to hide behind. They want tax increases to be “bipartisan”. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, there aren’t a lot of moderates they can count on to support tax increases, and those that otherwise would keep looking behind their backs to see the eagle eyes of their constituencies watching their every move.
ex-snook wrote:
Who should pay for the Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan war costs
There is no war in Libya. No hostilities at all.
As for Iraq and Afghanistan, give the leaders of those countries a choice. Pay the bill for our services or we go home. We accept cash or natural resources (oil, other industrial raw materials) can be credited agains your balance at market value.
Oh, I like that idea. Make them pay for the protection.
Sounds good to me. I would offer the same deal to every country where we have stationed troops.
There is no way tax icreases pass the house, there is a better chance of snow in Miami
icreases=increases
I can’t keep track of the BS from day to day. This article says one thing, but:
“The top Senate Republican said the White House and Congress could strike a deal to raise the government’s borrowing limit for just a few months, which would force them to revisit the issue again in the fall.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/06/19/mcconnell-short-term-debt-ceiling-deal-possible/
I suggest that Republicans say "OK, we will increase revenues to reduce the debt. We propose targeted revenue enhancements. We will enact our "Fair Revenue Enhancement to Reduce the Debt Act" which taxes at a modest 45% (forty five percent) of the assets of such businesses and groups as:
Like Bruce Springsteen who claims his estate as a farm in order to take a big tax cut,
Talk about the rich. Who is richer than these creeps?
Who can deny that members of the above are:
Rush? Hannity? Quinn? Sarah? can we hear this from you?
I'll say it myself -
targeted revenue enhancements
targeted revenue enhancements
targeted revenue enhancements
Anybody agree? Disagree?
W should have done this in the beginning. But since all the dems were saying “It’s about oil!” he decided to make sure it was NOT about the oil.
The republicans will cave. All they have to do is keep postponing it. They’re all a bunch of cowards.
>>...The republicans will cave. All they have to do is keep postponing it. They’re all a bunch of cowards...<<
That is the historical pattern.
Other than a hopefull sense that, “Surely *THIS* time they will stand their ground,” do we really have any basis for a reasonable, rational expectation that the house GOP, led by Boehner, will actually ignore the bad press, the dem attack ads and the dem-heavy negative polls and stand their ground?
I’m expecting status-quo, but slightly hopeful for a happy surprise.
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