Posted on 07/28/2011 9:28:56 AM PDT by RummyChick
As you wake up, here is what you need to know.
John Boehner thinks he has the votes to pass his third plan out of the House. Work to make sure he does not by going to http://www.redstate.com/action and calling your member of Congress. Tell them to oppose Boehner’s plan.
Even if you are sympathetic to Boehner’s plan, here is why it must be killed — it is a trap.
Pay attention please.
Harry Reid and all the Senate Democrats have sent John Boehner a letter saying they will oppose his plan in the Senate. In other words, Boehner’s plan, given the GOP votes in the Senate pledged to vote against it, will get less votes in both the House and in the Senate than Cut, Cap, and Balance.
Here, though, is why it is important to kill John Boehner’s plan this very morning before today’s vote.
John Boehner’s plan will get to the Senate. Harry Reid’s plan isn’t even in final form and has not even started making its way through the Senate’s arcane processes. It is a trap.
Harry Reid will amend John Boehner’s plan and include parts of Reid’s own plan that make tax increases even more likely than Boehner’s already does.
Senate Democrats last night were beginning to talk about adding the Gang of Six’s very bad plan to it as well — a trigger that would be engaged should the Democrats then refuse to reform entitlements, i.e. a trigger the Democrats will gladly engage because the Gang of Six plan raises taxes, including getting rid of the employer credit for active duty military reservists and raising the capital gains tax from 15% to 28%.
Then the Senate Democrats will send John Boehner back his own plan and dare John Boehner to kill his very own proposal. Should he try, the GOP will look as hardline and unwilling to compromise as John Boehner’s acolytes have been accusing conservatives of being this week.
In other words, John Boehner, once he sends his plan to the Senate, will yet again get played and the GOP will be forced to either accept Harry Reid’s awful changes or be blamed for causing the nation’s default — the very thing the GOP has sought to avoid.
Oh, and should the GOP fold and pass the modified Boehner plan, they’ll still get blamed for us losing our credit rating. Even with Boehner’s revisions, the Congressional Budget Office says the plan doesn’t cut even $1 trillion. It doesn’t meet S&P’s requirements.
Well done, Republicans.
The only thing we can do is call our congressmen and prevent them from voting for this suicide pact. Go here now.
ed henry taking on carney again
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/28/carney_house_gop_acting_incredibly_juvenile.html
Dude explain to mne how you are going to ban me from complaining because you don’t like what I said?
Puleeze
Dude explain to me how you are going to ban me from complaining because you don’t like what I said?
Puleeze
What is most amazing about Washington Republicans is how willingly and blindly they walk into Democratic traps.
It is called REALITY! The MSM is the 12th man on the football team called TEAM DEMOCRAT. They will spew it as Boehner's plan and the average Joe will suck it up as such. How in the world do you think FUBO got elected in the first place? Get real.
“A Liberal site???I suggest you do more research.”
Surely thou jesteth!! - Dost thou require Communism for thy form of government? Liberals, “Progressives”, Socialists are the “useful idiots” for the Communists; and they execute them first thing when they come to power, for the Communists know that by that time, they realize what they’ve done.
Nazi = National Socialist Party = Left Wing, Not Right Wing
Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. By the time they “get what they think they want”, it’s too late to change their minds.
Fine, so according to you we may as well hand the paper and pen to the libs and let them write the legislation they want and the Rep can sign it and be done.
Anything Boehner puts together, no matter how strong and favorable to the country and the TP can be changed in the Senate and sent back and according to you Boehner will be forced to accept it even though it bears NO resemblance to the original bill he submitted.
Repubs may as well go home and spend the rest of the summer on their deck as to be in Washington attempting to work something out.
That's not what I said.
You said the Senate will rewrite it and send it back and Boehner will be Forced to except it or look as if he has vetoed his own bill. I paraphrased but it is essentially what you said.
Communism’s been tried, by some pretty smart people. THEY failed, millions died. What makes you think YOU’RE going to be any different?
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