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“FIRST we must stop obama from doing more harm.”

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And the way to do that would have been to stand firm behind Cut, Cap and Balance. Obama would have blinked or he would have had to furlough some government workers or shut some agencies. Instead the GOP blinked, passing the Boehner bill which will be the vehicle to get a much worse bill passed next week, as I explained in my first post. The Boehner bill, as it presently stands only cuts SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS from this year’s 3.4 trillion dollar budget. Yet it raises te debt ceiling nearly a trillion dollars, giving Obama the ability to dig us a whole trillion dollars deeper into the hole. That harms the Country in a way that Cut cap and balance (or an outright refusal to raise the ceiling at all) would not have.

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“This thread is not about Sarah Palin. It is about the rest of 2011 and 2012 until January of 2013...and what happens to this country between now and then.”

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Again, Sarah Palin’s future is intertwined with this. She is sitting there watching the GOP Congress give Obama another trillion dollar blank check and wondering how she is going to be able to cut this additional spending once she takes over, not to mention how she is going to deal with the higher interest rates and inflation this is going to generate. It makes her job governing harder.

The anger which this has generated against the GOP by the TEA party also creates a political problem for Palin as well, since it is going to create even greater pressure for a third party that will help Obama get reelected. Many TEA partiers may get frustrated and give up.

Boehner’s bill is a political and policy disaster. It doesn’t hurt Obama a bit. Sorry, but that is the truth.