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)
Funny how you use all the left-wing talking points when attacking Governor Palin just in this thread: “Reality star,” “not presidential,” “...sidelines throwing bombs,” “...sabotaging your own party,” “quitting Alaska,” “TV pundit,” “faux intellectuals like Palin,” etc., etc.
Palin said “reload”, didn’t she?
And she is a reality star and a TV pundit. She did quit in Alaska. She is on the sidelines right now. It wasn’t presidential, IMO.
How are those talking points when they are the truth? I found it to be a very bad performance by her if she wants to be taken as a serious candidate. ‘Teaching Obama a lesson’ is ridiculousy simplistic, and I found it naive.
Also seems as if Pawlenty is against raising the debt ceiling.
He just doesn’t have a paying TV gig to let everybody know about it.
But, you are front and center throwing multiple bombs at Sarah Palin. Right?
As such, it is an extremely "inside the Beltway" kind of slapdown.
Sarah is channeling Reagan (as she explained in Going Rogue) by playing purely to the box office, i.e. the mass of voters outside the Beltway.
Since most of them aren't old enough to remember Nixon for anything other than Watergate (good old US educratic system and MSM again!), all they see is what the GOP, and in particular the Senate, have given them ever since Watergate: go along to get along, spineless, castrated bleating with the half-apologetic, half-chin-unconvincingly-jutting-out-in-secret which we've all come to detest, that "Well SO THERE! Obama will be *blamed* for this and in twenty years, all of these little things will add up and catch up with him...somehow."
Meanwhile, Obaama and the Press are high-fiving, since it looks like another GOP cave rather than landing a hard uppercut with the right on Obama's chin, which we CAN do since it is explicit in the Constitution, word for word, that ALL spending MUST originate in the House.
All little weepy Boehner has to do is take his toys and go home, and in response to EVERY press criticism, point out that Obama and the Dems started all this spending, and left without a budget in their haste to get Obamacare through.
We need tax cuts AND a debt-ceiling cut.
Sarah seems to be picking up the populist mantle in a conservative direction. She's a doer, not a pontificator: that is to say, a natural executive, not a parliamentary knife fighter: and thank GOD she is of a Western libertarian/conservative bent.
Cheers!
I don’t have that right? I’m being criticized for it, aren’t I? Is Palin beyond criticism?
“I’m not anti-Palin; I’m anti armchair QBs, and she is being one right now, IMO.”
Ahem, I say ahem, mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greatest....
It’s not the same bill, and it’s not a retread.
At least try to live in reality. Plus, it’s not supposed to go through; it’s supposed to make Obama fold, which it looks like he’ll do.
I swear, it’s like those of us on the right have no patience or political common sense. Then Sarah Palin goes out and throws chum in the water while offering no plan of her own.
MSNBC does it all the time.
What are you talking about?
WHAT?!!! YOU’RE the “Frickin’ Fool”. You need to pay attention to which buttons your fingers are typing. You must have typed my name by mistake. I’ve been all over these forums saying that McConnell’s plan is unconstitutional and I’m 100 percent behind what Gov. Palin says about this. GOOD GRIEF!!!
The only thing she’s sabotaging is defeatist idiot McConnell who wants to place the blame on Obama by abdicating Congress’s authority.
” 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.”
Ahem, I say ahem, and exactly what have you announced for, and why should anyone respect what you have to say, about anything?
I don’t think you read your linked post, did you? the FReeper who posted it has the opinion that I do. This is a non-starter designed to box the Dems in a corner. Problem is, those who don’t know history, or those in it for themselves (Palin), haven’t figured it out yet.
Take that up with muawiyah, he's the one who posted it; I even included the link to the very post.
At least try to live in reality. Plus, it’s not supposed to go through; it’s supposed to make Obama fold, which it looks like he’ll do.
Quit trolling.
It may make Obaama fold; it might make him do something unexpected via a loophole in the wording; a cornered narcissist is dangerous.
I swear, it’s like those of us on the right have no patience or political common sense.
You mean like the revered rightist John McCain saying that we didn't have to be afraid of Obama?
Then Sarah Palin goes out and throws chum in the water while offering no plan of her own.
She said she agreed with DeMint's plan. Is Palin the only one who has to come up with everything ab initio?
Cheers!
More common sense and backbone.
IBTZ?
“I just don’t see how a TV pundit like Sarah Palin’s words mean much at this point.”
Ahem, I say, ahem, Sarah Palin’s words mean one hell of a lot more than Carling’s do on FR, or anywhere else for that matter.
Yes, as I stated elsewhere, Mitch is telling BHO, “Go ahead and destroy our country, as long as we don’t get the blame.” I oppose giving the Failure one more smidgeon of power.
I agree.
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