Posted on 01/02/2013 5:14:37 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Mitch McConnell has many virtues as a legislator. Unfortunately, brokering deals advantageous to Republicans is not one of them.
McConnell’s defenders will say that his most recent deal was the best any Republican could do under the circumstances. Perhaps. But this defense ignores the fact that it was McConnell’s prior deal — the one creating the “fiscal cliff” — that established these adverse circumstances.
Let’s step back and consider the impact of McConnell’s deals on the valiant effort of House Republicans in 2011 to use the debt-ceiling to attack the debt. So far, the results are as follows: (1) the debt ceiling was raised, (2) the debt continued to soar, (3) the latest McConnell-brokered deal will increase, rather than decrease, the debt, and (4) taxes are about to go up.
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“NOW is the time for term limits.”
California has Term Limits, not enough.
You can't seriously believe either of those statements.
The republican party has not stood for a number of years.
They prefer their knees it seems.
I didn’t leave the party. It left me.
I am not so sure the Tea Party is marginalised.
If they start a third party I will sign up the next day
I do. The GOP pwnd Obama. God bless them.
That’s just sad.
Without a Tea Party-acceptable Speaker of the House tomorrow, it may not survive THIS one.
Marginalized according to current polling. They have absolutely been marginalized.
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