“And no matter what you think, it matters how Republicans come out of this battle politically.”
I absolutely agree. This is an extremely important issue, but no one is thinking how this relates to 2012. A mishandling of this could be handing the communist 4 more years. Instead, everyone is simply putting all their chips in on this debt ceiling issue (don’t get me wrong, it’s important) rather than looking at the bigger picture which is defeating obama and taking control of the senate. I don’t get it.
This is the crap Republicans have been saying for years. Lets not act Conservative yet because if we do we will lose the next election. Then people will say the same thing after that. What’s the point of electing Conservatives if they don’t do Conservative things? If Conservatives can’t act Conservative without losing elections then it’s not important who wins because we will never be able to do anything significant enough to save our nation.
The fact is it’s probably already too late to save our nation. Does anyone really believe we will be able to cut spending drastically enough for an extended period of time to make the difference needed?
That’s not even taking into account the invasion of illegal immigrants who are literally taking over parts of the nation, and who are supported by the administration(as well as past administrations), and many in both parties. Very few are willing to take a stance against it even when we have had several incidents of the Mexican military making incursions onto U.S. soil. Our own federal government fights against States for Mexico.
The Tea Party movement and the recent State laws on illegal immigration have given some hope, but the problems have went on for so long and are so bad at this point it’s going to take a lot more.
The political reality is the Republicans are not going to get any spending cuts of substance controlling just one House and with a Dem as President.The reality is the best they can do at this point is to stop any new spending Obama and the Dems want to enact and minor cuts. The next best opportunity is 2012 assuming the Republicans can take the Presidency and get control of the Senate.And yes, politics is important insofar as if a failure to raise the debt ceiling is perceived as instigated by the Republicans it will be detrimental to their chances in 2012 to take the Presidency and the Senate.This country cannot afford another 4 years of Obama.