I used to think people on here were intelligent. I don't pay much attention to peoples screenames, so I don't know if all the usual intelligent people are laying low or if only the dumb people are currently posting.
They should have just quietly raised the debt limit as in the past, for all the credit conservatives are getting for doing the best they could.
All this doesn't matter much. One Congress can't bind another. All this can go away in the next Congress, when we will have significant majorities in both houses and the white house.
The current Congress won't allow a lame duck Obama to let the Bush tax cuts expire.
What would you have had them do? Your expectations of what was possible isn't based in reality. Instead of progress you would have shut down 40% of the government, with OBAMA deciding who gets paid. He would be as vindictive as you could imagine. Republicans would be blamed for all of it. This would have been the end of the Republican Party at the exact time we Conservatives are finally taking it over.
One election (2010) isn't enough to correct mistakes that took decades to accumulate. Hopefully we can do it with just two (2010 & 2012) elections. When we have control of Washington, will be the time to demand drastic changes. This will be when we can actually deliver. Not now. We did the best we could and won a minor victory.
We haven't “cut” spending. Technically, by definition, no we haven't. BUT we are going to spend Trillions less than we would have. That is SOMETHING, no? Better than nothing, yes?
Rush and Harry Reid are both WRONG. Not tax increases, more spending CUTS accomplishes the same thing. Instead of increasing taxes, cut spending instead.
Rush and others are trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Eating our own is a recipe for disaster.
“Rush and others are trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Eating our own is a recipe for disaster. “
Yeah...Rush is wrong, and Palin is right. Palin needs to stop taking her marching orders from McCain...her new neighbor in Scottsdale, AZ
Well, that was good for a guffaw.