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An Establishment in Panic
Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2011 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 07/08/2011 5:38:53 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/08/2011 5:38:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Don’t go wobbly now on me, GOP.


2 posted on 07/08/2011 5:41:29 AM PDT by McGruff (Why do they fear her so?)
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To: Kaslin

The more they yell and scream, write outrageous columns, get in front of cameras and say outrageous things, make outrageous doomsday predictions on the House floor, the more we know the right thing is being done.

They cannot allow the American people to see that we can actually survive without huge government. They cannot allow the American people to see that the economy will actually get better without the government taking away it’s fuel. They cannot allow the American people to see that they were wrong and have been wrong for nigh unto a century in power.

They must, at all costs, dispose this line of thinking that people do not need Big Bro...................


3 posted on 07/08/2011 5:48:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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To: Kaslin

The left is totally off their medications; projecting madly on the Republicans. Hang tough Republicans.


4 posted on 07/08/2011 5:48:54 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Kaslin
235 Republican House members signed a 2010 pledge not to raise taxes

Worth about as much as a promise to cut spending over 10 years. Hope I'm wrong.

5 posted on 07/08/2011 5:49:41 AM PDT by MulberryDraw ( Where's the democrat budget? What's the plan?)
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The libs want a tax??? OK, anyone making less than 24K a year will pay an automatic 5%. This will effectively spread the pain around, and stop the non payment of taxes from an entire “protected” class....put that one to ‘em ( also, make welfare recipients pay taxes on what they get )


6 posted on 07/08/2011 5:50:06 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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Obama and MSM arguments are completely bogus. they claim that absent of a raise of the debt ceiling, US Treasury won't be able to pay all(!) its bills. So, the US Treasury doesn't receive weekly (or even daily) large amounts of money from various taxes we pay?? If so, how come they will have no money unless borrowed???

Now about default - paying interest on loans, paying for essential services is a must for the Government and they have enough money for that. No more borrowing means reduction of the bloated various - to use article word - cockamamie entitlement programs. Threat of default is a blackmail, plain and simple.

Not to mention that the idea of inability to pay debt w/o making more debt is absurd.

7 posted on 07/08/2011 5:55:46 AM PDT by alecqss
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David Brooks is the poster-boy for Idiots International.


8 posted on 07/08/2011 5:57:38 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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In the root sense of the word “idiot,” that is, unlearned, uninformed, naive.


9 posted on 07/08/2011 5:58:33 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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The GOP should stand its ground — and fix bayonets.
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And, I pray that they will, but something inside me says that in the end, they will fold like a cheap suit.


10 posted on 07/08/2011 5:59:42 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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The Establishment is in a panic. It has been jolted awake to the realization that the GOP House, if it can summon the courage to use it, is holding a weapon that could enable it to bridle forever the federal monster that consumes 25 percent of gross domestic product.

That's a big fat "if." Here's hoping that this time around, they don't cave, as they did in April.

11 posted on 07/08/2011 5:59:55 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Red Badger

BINGO, DING, DING, DING...WE HAVE A WINNER


12 posted on 07/08/2011 6:01:54 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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And, I pray that they will, but something inside me says that in the end, they will fold like a cheap suit.

With the Boner in charge, that could very well happen.

13 posted on 07/08/2011 6:01:54 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Houghton M.

Synonyms for “idiot” : fool, half-wit; imbecile; dolt, dunce, numskull

And, in researching this, I was surprised to find that “numskull” was not spelled “numbskull”. Look at me; ever learning. Thanks Houghton.


14 posted on 07/08/2011 6:05:38 AM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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David, you’ve got the wrong party!

Oops!


15 posted on 07/08/2011 6:16:19 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Kaslin
The GOP should stand its ground -- and fix bayonets.

Nuke'm from orbit.

16 posted on 07/08/2011 6:21:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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Don’t go wobbly now on me, GOP.

Bttt. Are the house GOP members listening? If you don't you will cause a repeat of 2006.......

17 posted on 07/08/2011 6:24:40 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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By threatening default, the White House is saying that it will deliberately default on the debt rather than reduce spending.

Paying the debt is a legally-mandated expenditure, as are other things like Social Security and Medicare. When there is no money, it's up to the President to decide what legally-mandated expenditure gets paid, and in what order of priority. Then if there's money left, non-mandated things get paid for.

This would actually be a powerful weapon in the hands of the next Republican president if we can hold the house: have the House not raise the debt ceiling, and allow the President to just not give any of the suddenly-limited money to the Dept of Education, EPA, etc.

18 posted on 07/08/2011 6:25:55 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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Those trapped in the mass paradigm (Leftist groupthink) that’s destroying the U.S.A. are behaving more and more like raving lunatics!


19 posted on 07/08/2011 6:28:25 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Tea Party: La Resistance)
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What you found are contemporary, modern meanings of the word. The word in its Greek root (taken over into Latin), idiota, simply means someone uninformed, uneducated. It did not in itself mean stupid or mentally deformed etc.

Brooks is not stupid or retarded. He’s just sadly uninformed, naive. Idiot. Poster-boy for idiots around the world.


20 posted on 07/08/2011 6:28:42 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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