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Posted on 07/13/2011 7:11:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the budget talks heat up and the time to reach any deal necessitates compromise, many on the right are becoming disillusioned with the evolution of the new budget. Among these is Sarah Palin, who told Sean Hannity tonight that she thought Sen. Mitch McConnell’s plan “makes no sense” and that now, more than evern, “we have to reload. We will not capitulate.”
Palin argued that much of the debt problem was due to the direction that President Obama had taken the country, away from “a strong foundation of reward for work ethic and development of natural resources.” Now that the mess had been made, however, Palin argued that compromising too much on conservative principles would be dangerous. “We cannot default, but we cannot afford to retreat– we have to reload,” she told Hannity, then going after the McConnell plan. “That plan of McConnell’s makes no sense because it cedes power to Obama,” she argued. To Palin, giving President Obama more power is particularly dangerous because “we cannot trust him to further manipulate our economy.”
Instead, Palin proposed that Congress allow “President Obama to understand some free market, time-tested principles that worked,” rather that “just hand him with white flags” the tools necessary to put the budget together. “We can’t just wave a white flag and surrender,” she concluded, because “our President has failed in this arena.”
The segment via Fox News below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
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Yes, she ‘throws bombs’ ,. Your words, at her own party,
When it’s needed.
I guess you missed what he said a few hours after he made that statement. He wants to give Bozo the power to raise the debt limit with out legislative approval, plus he would have the power to veto any cuts made to the budget. That is what she means by handing the idiotic Bozo power and a white flag. McConnell apparently believes that if we don't raise the debt limit we will actually go into default, which is an outright lie.
Palin needs to either enter the race or not. If she wants to be the “outsider”, great, but that is so easy to do when she hasn't announced her candidacy. I'm not anti-Palin; I'm anti armchair QBs, and she is being one right now, IMO.
You are a Frickin’ fool if you don’t realize that letting the President have control of the budget without congressional approval is unconstitutional, whether the frickin’ courts rule it or not. Sarah is entirely justified in reaming our McConnell, he is an idiot who wants to surrender to the dems.
I’m certainly no fan of McConnell, but people like Palin blasting the GOP congress after quitting in Alaska and still sitting on the sidelines rubs me the wrong way. These are big boy negotiations, and the easy way to set yourself apart is by being anti-DC. If she had announced prior to her comments tonight, I’d respect them. Since she hasn’t, I view them as a self-serving trial balloon.
We need a 2nd Party. Maybe she will run as a 2nd party candidate.
THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T HAVE CONTROL OF THE BUDGET WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.
What are you talking about? This is about raising the debt ceiling, not giving the President total control of the federal budget. Who is the fool?
You should be happy there is someone in the party who will call these RINO a**hats when they are in the wrong.
You sound much like a DU troll rather than a FReeper or someone who wants to vote for Romney or some other RINO.
I’m entirely wrong, yet you’re saying the McConnell plan gives Obama total control of the budget.
Hilarious.
Are u not smart enough to realize that “The Gobbler” McConnell talks out of both sides of his mouth? Apparently not.
I just don't see how a TV pundit like Sarah Palin’s words mean much at this point.
Palin is just sitting on the sidelines throwing bombs at her own party. It’s ridiculous. Either announce you’re running, Sarah, or stop sabotaging your own party.
Quite the contrary. It is the announced candidates who HAVE BEEN SILENT on the Debt Issue. Bachmann and Gingrich have weighed in.
Whats Romney’s Position? What’s Pawlenty’s Position? They are afraid to weigh in.
It makes sense for her to bash both sides, doesn't it? Having nothing to lose makes it easy to play the maverick. I'd take her seriously if she would announce as a candidate. Since she hasn't, she's basically a reality TV star/talking head who just gave a cover interview to Newsweek, of all rags.
Read the article.
Once again what is Romney’s position?
What’s pawlenty’s position.
Where do they stand on the debt limit issue.
You can’t answer that because Romney is hiding. So is that weak-kneed sister, Tim Pawlenty.
That is exactly what's going on here.
Unfortunately, too many conservatives have reacted viscerally -- instead of logically -- to a brilliant political maneuver. McConnell has executed a number of these kinds of procedural defeats for the Democrats over the last three years -- even when he could not get a filibuster. Yet he gets no credit for his parliamentary savior faire. Palin should not have taken the bait; she's smarter than this.
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