Here’s mine to Boehner. It’s shorter than yours:
Boehner, go ahead and sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. Conservatives will vote out every Old Guard DC hack that supports your horrible, terrible, grotesque plan to dig us deeper into insurmountable debt. We will vote in droves during the ‘12 primary season. The more you threaten good conservative TEA partiers, the greater our numbers will be.
Go ahead and infuriate the base. We’ll get our say at the ballot box.
A FORMER Republican and FOREVER conservative
FYI...my letter/fax/email. I urge everyone to do the same post haste.
The law you propose is unconstitutional by way of the 24th Amendment.
Can I copy and paste your letter?
I’ve always wanted to manage $250 million in cash flow!
"Every poll I've seen shows that 0ver 60% of America wants spending cut and controlled. You MUST listen to us, for once."
I've sent it to every Senator and I'm working on congress now.
Hi Jeff,
That letter should be an inspiration to all of us to write these clowns that we elected in good faith, fully expecting a strong stand against tyranny by our new crop of representatives. At best, they are a lukewarm bunch.
I just received a call from some friends in Kentucky to inform me that the GOP group that is working with Boehner are sequestering themselves tonight to seek God’s wisdom through prayer. We need to pray that God does answer them and that they will heed His reply.
I just tried to email my worthless Rep, Jack Kingston. He has disabled all his email contact forms/addresses. I kid you not. It would have been a wasted effort anyway. He is a hack’s hack, and was probably the first Rep to back Boehner’s bonehead plan. Still I wanted to unload. What a cheap creep. They aren’t Reps; they are rulers. We’ve got to clean House, and take it back from these [self-censored]. They’ve gone too far. All we can do now is hit them at the ballot box.
May all the RINOs go down in flames.
I live in SE Idaho and sent a similar message to our two Senators and Congressman Simpson. My message was not as eloquent, but it was succinct.
I got back two responses telling me why they needed to raise the debt ceiling to avoid catastrophe.
Very disappointing.
FYI...the time is now. Contact your reps and let them know enough is enough!
I wouldn’t have a problem with raising the debt ceiling, if Boehner was actually serious about making cuts. Even though LAURA-INGRAHAM-SAYS-WE-MUST-PASS-IT-NOW-OR-WE’RE-DOOOOOOOOOOMED, the bill does not cut anywhere near enough to prevent a downgrade.
All Boehner has to do is re-submit the bill with $4T in cuts, instead of $900B, and I’m with him all the way.
I’d prefere a flat rate of 15%, individual and corporate, excluding SS and Medicare payroll. We will need to PAY DOWN DEBT, as well as fund the basic, constitutional functions of government. Once we’ve paid down most of our debt, we can then cut the rates some more.
I like it. I like it a lot!
GREAT letter!
(and Michelle Bachmann recently made a similar point, about taxpaying and voting. there SHOULD be a linkage somehow.)
i especially liked:
“It is no longer a time for compromise of any sort.”
“ DO NOT RAISE THE DEBT CEILING. “
You forgot to tell them to that by backing off Agenda 21 we won’t be able to stop the growth of American industry.
However, if you bring your tax return showing money paid to the IRS in positive amounts, your vote goes in the box that gets counted.
Ping!
“Any person receiving social welfare (not including social security or medicare) as a primary source of their means of living (a primary source being defined as anything over 25% of their total income), shall, for the duration that they receive such government largess, not be allowed to vote in any local, state, or federal election.”
Jeff, I agreed with just about everything you wrote, including the above.
But you know as well as I that even if this passed the Congress, it would not withstand a “Constitutional test” before the Supreme Court. The 14th amendment guarantees “equal protection”, and passing such a law as yours above is a blatant attempt to “un-equalize” protection (in this case, the right to vote). It would probably lose 9-0.
Why not introduce that as an out-and-out Constitutional amendment, instead?
Just sayin’....