Believe what they do. Not what they say.
demint have been a senator for so long yet I don’t recall him proposing an alternative budget like Rand Paul
This week Sen. A and Sen. B will talk tough and make demands, thus getting face time and people fired up.
Next week it will be Sen. C and Sen D. and next week two more.
When the vote on the subject finally comes, there will be enough Sen’s to vote the subject down, At which Sen’s A-F go back on TV to give hope to the base.
When the next subject comes up, a different 6 will do the same with the same result. Lather, rinse, repeat.
When the election comes and nothing positive happened, all Sen’s go campaigning on how they fought for (insert subjet) along side 5 other “hardcorepatrioticconservative” GOP Senators.
Each do the same, blame the rest and so none are ever to blame.
Simple really.
Blah. Blah. Blah. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. More talking the talk and we all know damn well they won’t walk the walk. We can count on the debt ceiling rising again and again and again...
“ultimately would vote to raise the $14.3 trillion ceiling, regardless of whether a deal is reached on long-term spending cuts”
Surely that cannot right. The Republicans caving without anything in return.
FIRE THEM ALL.
For one thing, the proposed constitutional amendment has dubious value. It permits borrowing if the country is "at war," I think; it is probably as useful to bind Congress as the "enumerated power" of regulating commerce among the states.
Then there is the timeline disconnect between agreeing to borrow more money (immediate increase in public debt load, to satisfy Congress' urge to spend) and adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment; and then there is the, IMO very low, probability of the constitutional amendment being adopted at all.
He gave a great speech in rejecting TARP I (IIRC, it was TARP I), but his use of senatorial power here strikes me as, pardon my French, just bullshit.
i think california already has a balanced budget ammendment
The Republican Party has no balls; they won't stop the raising of the Debt Ceiling, nor will they stop the spending beyond the revenues.
Even Ryan's proposed spending cuts DO NOT STOP THE DEBT FROM RISING THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD COVERED....it merely slows the descent into debt.
The government is TOTALLY out of hand, spending to buy votes from Lobbyists and parasites; the American People are the victims, ALWAYS.
Don’t say it if you don’t mean it.
I’m so tired of the lies and empty pandering.
We all know the debt ceiling will be raised in the end.
Ain’t buying it - Gotta see that to believe that.........
Mad Dog Alert!
Old bonerhead is going to kick ass and take names! /sarc
Never trust politicians from either Party. They'll lie to us without a second thought. We don't mean a thing to them. Long as we vote for them, once they're in office, they don't need us anymore and will drop us like a red-hot rock had been put into their hands.
Always remember my tagline. Nothing but the truth.
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Still to be addressed is the fact it could take years for the states to ratify this.
Sen DeMint, sorry, I can't go along with this. Please do filibuster the debt ceiling. But don't attach your action to something so fanciful and out of reach.
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Geithner said repeatedly Sunday that lawmakers who want to take the country to the "brink" will bear the responsibility for the risk that creates.Oh, TurboTax is threatening us! I'll gladly give up my Social Security check in exchange for rational fiscal sanity for a change.He suggested that merely flirting with that edge would create a problem. But he said if Congress ultimately rejects an increase in the debt limit, it would trigger a crisis that makes that 2008 meltdown look tame. Geithner reiterated warnings that such a vote would force the government to halt benefits payments to seniors and veterans and would risk the government defaulting on its interest.
Truth be told, Timmy is blowing smoke. Checks won't stop. Entirely to politically risky.
The government is going to default on its debt obligations eventually, why not get it out of the way now? Or is this like the bank crisis where the banks were "too large to fail?" Is the US Government too large to fail? No, because there are global considerations.