Posted on 08/02/2011 7:23:47 AM PDT by Rational Thought
The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon. No suspense there. But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS that senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee” for deficit reduction that the legislation creates
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Surprisingly everyone here should have seen this for a decade or two.
I noticed you STILL have admitted you were wrong, I was right, and you STILL haven’t issued an apology for the insane comment.
Just can’t admit you were wrong, eh?
Since when do those two tell the Senate what to do?
Or did you just not read any of the post and just go on a rant?
‘For “Conservatives” you both display a strange habit of debating just like Leftists.
Your posts usually consist of some combination of “The sky is falling” hysterics, name calling and/or disinformation.
Try thinking a whole lot more and emoting a whole lot less.’
I would just recommend that anyone review your posting history over the past two days. Much of it is literally cut and paste, or purely formulaic. All of it boils down to condescending instructions to accept whatever is the party line of the day, and to be grateful, whether it is utterly un-Constitutional or not. When those condescending instructions and platitudes are ineffective, you resort to ad hominem attacks.
You are a hack; quite literally a mere tool.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Well, just a bit less as you are utterly ineffective.
If substantial numbers of conservatives do not win office in 2012, at least enough to take over the congressional leadership positions, there will be a serious third party movement that will most likely, at least in the short term, give political control to the Democrats. I will be among those who risk this short term prospect in order to eventually save the Republic.
“Boehner and Cantor must go! This is a complete sell-out.......”
Since when do those two tell the Senate what to do?
Or did you just not read any of the post and just go on a rant?
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Are you unable to see the connection, unwilling to see the connection, or unwilling to admit to the connection?
“If substantial numbers of conservatives do not win office in 2012, at least enough to take over the congressional leadership positions, there will be a serious third party movement that will most likely, at least in the short term, give political control to the Democrats. I will be among those who risk this short term prospect in order to eventually save the Republic.”
Agree on all points.
I think most FReepers have recognized such morphing over the years, recognizing the blurring of the lines between the GOP and DNP, but remain frustrated at finding a solution that will arrest its advance and return our government to a truer two party system. The growing percentage of voting population that rely on government handouts and support has reached a tipping point making the effort to separate the two parties all the more difficult.
What this means is that Congress, as the founders conceived it, is out of business.
I think both sides wanted this because it consolidates the power of 546 congress people into six a piece. It also aces out the Tea Party.
This is an end run around what is clearly the end of two party rule.
The ONLY historic thing about this whole legislative process, as it were, was that the new party in town was able to completely derail over 100 years of two party rule.
Before the Tea Party, there were ideologues on both sides, and appropriators. Those were the parties. There hasn’t been a Democrat/Republican system for a long time now.
Guys like McCain? Republican and conservative? He’s an appropriator.
Now there are ideologues, Tea Partiers, and appropriators, and some of the appropriators are getting a sense that conservatism is the new black.
Without the Tea Party, there was political theater ending in higher spending. It’s why you could only end welfare when a Democrat was in the White House, and Nixon begat the EPA. Reagan raised taxes too.
The Tea Party appears to be something different. We’ll see how long it takes to coopt it.
I have come to the conclusion that the democrats have been right about the Republican Party all along, i.e., that they are the party of the privileged and the party of big corporations. The democrats represent government employees and unions and the Republicans represent banks and big international corporations.
Nobody represents the guys who go to work 40-75 hours a week and don't work for the government and don't take tax dollars for sitting on the butts.
The Democrats represent about 30% of the population consisting of tax takers, the Republicans represent about 20% of the population consisting of progressive elitists and big money concerns and the other 50% of us are left holding the bag that is being pilfered by the Republicans and Democrats.
I'm beginning to think that a third party is the only way we can save this country. But frankly at this point I'm not so sure it can be saved.
The Tea Party appears to be something different. We’ll see how long it takes to coopt it.
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The longer it remains a mindset and attitude rather than an organization, the longer it will last. Perhaps that is the point of Geo. Washington’s warning about faction.
All this does is increase the number of anti-debt senators that will be elected in 2012 election cycle...the GOP will soon be in control of the Senate in 2013, Reid is dead man walking, McConnell will NEVER be the leader in the new senate of 2013, and a BALANCED BUDGET AMEND will be passed by the Senate of 2013..
McConnell is terrified of losing the leadership slot and is working toward eliminating his competition by this sleazy maneuver.
Do you have a source for this? Would love to report in other places.
I figured that out. He’s a shill for the RINO’s and unworthy of any further responses. Let him stew in his own fantasy world—drink the kool-aid Obama/Boehner/McConnell are serving up. The inability to think critically and rationally is due to nature, ignorance is by choice.
“I have come to the conclusion that the democrats have been right about the Republican Party all along, i.e., that they are the party of the privileged and the party of big corporations. The democrats represent government employees and unions and the Republicans represent banks and big international corporations.
Nobody represents the guys who go to work 40-75 hours a week and don’t work for the government and don’t take tax dollars for sitting on the butts.
The Democrats represent about 30% of the population consisting of tax takers, the Republicans represent about 20% of the population consisting of progressive elitists and big money concerns and the other 50% of us are left holding the bag that is being pilfered by the Republicans and Democrats.
I’m beginning to think that a third party is the only way we can save this country. But frankly at this point I’m not so sure it can be saved. “
.....Which is the reason for the expediency of this current scheme (until the “Stamp Act #2” commences with 2013 Vampire-Care).
With any further easing with Q3, Bill, Mitch, Jon, John, Joe, The Puppet Spammer, Tim, etc. and the rest, would themselves also have to pay for the bailout, which up until now have been insulated from the Depression.
The Lord’s Word will NOT be mocked!
“Thou Shall Not Steal” Exodus 20:15
The body, does not belong to the government, but the Holy Spirit Himself. I Cor 3:16
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I recall an episode last year that named Glenn Beck in the story. I posted the info. to FR and so did another freeper:
To: Kaslin
I was watching an episode of “1000 Ways To Die” the other day, and one of the episodes featured some backwoods poacher who snuffed himself in a unusual way. (I have my doubts about the authenticity of these episodes, but I’ll get on with my point.) The narrator described the man heading for his home to get his daily dose of Glenn Beck on tv. Now supposedly this event happened in 2003. Beck wasn’t even on the tube until a few years ago. But they made this person into a knuckle-dragging, demented ogre who watches, naturally, Glenn Beck. No bias there. (smirk)
14 posted on 06/09/2011 7:05:23 AM PDT by driftless2
Uhhhh,,,,No.
".....unwilling to see the connection...."
Help me Father, for I have been struck blind.
"...or unwilling to admit to the connection?"
I ain't admitting nuthing...hell, I wasn't even there, and you can't prove it anyway.
If this is true we know "NO" folks won't be on the committee:
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