Posted on 02/02/2011 11:35:33 PM PST by speciallybland
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner is complaining about new spending plans by Democrats, yet is handing them a blank check with his own plan to raise the debt limit, says the organizer of a campaign to persuade House Republicans to block the move.
"I got an e-mail from Boehner's office this week," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND and the force behind the "No More Red Ink" campaign opposing a hike in the debt limit. "He asked, 'What's the definition of fiscal insanity?' He answered that Democrats are calling for more wasteful spending to drag the U.S. out of its recession. But the real definition of fiscal insanity is that Republicans, led by Boehner, are planning to allow the Democrats to keep borrowing and printing money to fuel their initiatives."
Farah says Republicans will blow the biggest opportunity they will have for the next two years to stop the insanity – to stop doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results – if they go along with plans to raise the debt limit.
"This is something House Republicans control," explains Farah. "They don't need consensus. They don't need any Democrats to join them. All they have to do is vote against raising the debt limit. At that point, government needs to begin living within its means. No more borrowing, no more debt, no more spending. Washington will be forced to make the kind of drastic cuts it should have made decades ago. That's the power 242 House Republicans have. They don't need to bicker and argue with Democrats about fiscal priorities. That's useless. They can just dry up the funds with one vote."
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Exactly. If the GOP intends to do business as usual, it makes people wonder what they voted for in November. If we’re going to raise the debt limit, attach the repeal of Obamacare and reducing spending to it. Then force the Democrats to choose between downsizing government or voting for it to default on its fiscal obligations.
I’d be surprised if the Stupid Party stops caving into the Democrats.
And the nation defaults on its debts, plunging the world economy into fiscal meltdown and ending the long reign of the US Dollar as global reserve currency. Not sure who will survive to sweep up the ashes, but it certainly won't be the United States of America.
Mr. Farah, Speaker Boehner has the burden of actual leadership.
You can’t get a Democrat to cut spending. Once they start doing that, there’s no reason to reelect them. So if Boehner and the Pubbies vote against a raising of the debt ceiling and we default on our debt, there wil be hell to pay and the Pubbies will pay it. The Dems will make sure of it.
When have they ever held the line recently on any important fiscal matter?
And do you really think giving the Obama Administration carte blanche to borrow and spend will restore the United States Of America to sound fiscal health? I don’t.
Make the Democrats pay. Attach the measures I outlined to the debt bill. If the Democrats reject them, they’ll be the ones to put ideology above the good of the country.
Unless you just like to hand Obama the credit card with a no strings attached higher limit.
If he raises the debt ceiling he will be removed.
Nonsense.
The US has sufficient current income to pay the interest on the debt and entitlements.
There would be no need to default on the national debt.
Even Sen Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling.
Now why would that not surprise me?
We don’t. We borrow from the Chinese and basically so called “conservative” Republicans want to borrow more from Beijing.
Yeah, that’s the ticket to reelection in 2012!
The GOP is more liberal on borrowing then then Sen. Obama.
How’s that for irony?
Hear, hear.....
This article is written by a fool who is pimping his own personal group “No More Red Ink”. At no point does he explain how we are to simply not raise the debt ceiling.
It has taken 2 years to get to this point. You cannot just shut this off overnight. I did not read in Farah’s piece where he explains how the GOP can possibly do this without collapsing the economy. They haven’t even had the opportunity to create a budget this year yet.
I am curious why there is so much animosity toward the GOP House and Senate when they are doing everything they promised so far. They even got an Obamacare vote in the Senate. Issa is investigating. The ceiling is going to have to be raised before the GOP will have time to start cutting.
You just want to hand Obama a blank check to continue destroying what’s left of our economy? They’d love your reasoning at DU. Let’s keep on doing what we’ve been doing the past two years!
So enlighten me how we, as a country, not raise the debt ceiling right now? Apparently you believe there will be no ramifications in doing this. Am I correct?
Exactly the same excuse they had with the first stimulus under Bush and the second under obama. So let’s do it again hey..sure. Why not? So we will never have the courage to say no anymore - ever. That’s a never ending story. Here is billions we can cut overnight and get back to a sane economy. But I understand..the media won’t be happy and the gop hates when the media is not happy with them. Oh well...
So how many more times should it be raised? Because everyone knows the spending is not going to stop. Why even have a “debt ceiling” just to keep raising it endlessly?
I will ask you the same question. What will happen if we do as you say and not raise the ceiling? Bond markets should stay stable and our economy will just motor along, right?
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