What pundits and the media have failed to recognize...up to this point...is that there is a sea-change in how the American people view government. The ideological labels are now passe; all politicians are now seen by an increasing number of citizens as "governmentalist s"...people who see government as an appropriate authority and vehicle for solving problems and to which individual freedom and responsibility must bow.
More and more people want to get "governmentalists" out of office and confine government activity to national defense, giving individuals once again both the power and the responsibility to care for themselves. That is what make America great, and it can have that effect once more.
The Republicans in congress need to start reminding Obama WE WON, YOU LOST !!!
paybacks are a bi&$@
We need to vote down the Reid plan at least once just to show that two sides can play this “dead on arrival” game. If we don’t we will look like nothing that comes out of the House truly matters and is ceding all power to the Senate.
Quote from Thomas Sowell does it for me!
Conservative economist Thomas Sowell explains what’s important: “Is the Boehner legislation the best legislation possible? Of course not! You don’t get your heart’s desire when you control only one house of Congress and face a presidential veto,” he writes. “The most basic fact of life is that we can make our choices only among the alternatives actually available. It is not idealism to ignore the limits of one’s power. Nor is it selling out one’s principles to recognize those limits at a given time and place, and get the best deal possible under those conditions.”
Sowell then illuminates the big picture. “There are a lot of things to weigh against each other, not only as regards the economy, but also what the consequences to this nation would be to have Barack Obama get re-elected and go further down the dangerous path he has put us on, at home and abroad. Is it worth that risk to make a futile symbolic vote in Congress?” he asks.
Many Americans deny this, either out of unwillingness to face facts or simply they are buying the media's take on things.
God help us in America today and on going to be restored to our former faith and common sense. Turn evil away from our leaders and show them the way to go, the path to walk and how to know thee, LORD, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us, in Jesus name amen.
I say “NO MORE DEBT CEILING INCREASES”
Deal with the money you get… roll up your sleeves and start working in making the cuts necessary to get our fiscal matters in order.
If more debt is added it only makes matters worse down the road. If TARP had been shot down and let capitalism run its course, we’d be miles ahead by now.
Boehner is either a total incompetent or a big, intrusive, government RINO. Either way he has to be replaced as Speaker.
We need a competent conservative with guts in that position. Besides, replacing Boehner with a conservative will send a message to the rest of the RINOs that they can’t pull on Super Man’s cape and they can’t screw the conservatives.
We also need to defeat the Reid bill and if the Boehner bill comes back to the House modified, we need to defeat it too. The Boehner bill is as much as we will give up to the liberals.
The final bill the House sends the Senate and that the Senate passes will be almost identical to the original CCB that the House sent over but with a smaller debt ceiling increase and no arrangement on how it will increase further. Boehner will defer all but a minor debt ceiling increase and will address it again as part of the annual Budget. He'll also make an issue of the debt ceiling being handled any other way which grants multi-year borrowing authority to the Executive Branch apart from the budget. Making the debt ceiling a part of the annual budget process and the Balanced Budget Amendment are the real goals because they're the real process changers.
JMHO
Dimocrats and the media saying Repubs will be “blamed by the people” is, of course, the exact opposite of what is true, and what Dims fear.
If checks stop going out right now, it will be on the President’s watch. He will have many months of struggling to get by on $2 trillion per year, or stick his neck way out on the impeachment block by simpy having the Executive branch defy the debt limit set by Congress. Voters will remember that the mad scramble for money happened on the current occupant’s watch.
If checks keep going out because the Dims got a credit extension from House Repubs to keep going until 2012 - this very same debt blowup will happen - to the next President. If a Repub is in office - THEN it will be blamed on Repubs.