Posted on 08/02/2011 11:23:45 AM PDT by GreaterSwiss
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.
While there’s certain logic to such a policy, it could be self-defeating. Excluding those who vote against the debt deal will ensure that some of the most fiscally conservative members of the Senate Republican caucus, including most of its freshmen, will be reading about the committee’s activities in the newspaper rather than guiding its decisions. Among those who have already declared their opposition to the deal: libertarian-leaning senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul; Jim DeMint, the aggressive fiscal hawk from South Carolina; conservative reformers Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania; the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions; and Florida’s Marco Rubio, already one of the highest-profile conservatives in Congress.
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I didn’t say 3rd party, I SAID REPLACE!
“Well, the way you folks are behaving isn’t exactly the Carnegie method for getting what you want....”
That method has been tried for about three generations. With only a brief slowing of the decline under Reagan, it failed. Utterly. Fatally. All the masks are off now, and all the platitudes are stale.
Now a practical nullification of representative government passed has been passed into law.
Only 12 -appointed- members of the Royal Congress are going to matter. 523 of the Commons will merely provide backdrop crowds and collect checks.
This is the nadir of the American republic. This is what the revolution stood against.
bla·tant
[bleyt-nt] adjective
1. brazenly obvious; flagrant
false
[fawls] adjective
1. not true or correct; erroneous
Since there is no indication that this was ever true, I will have to assume it was made up out of whole cloth for the purpose of titillation.
At any rate, doesn't show our side as very confident when all we seem to be able to do is piss and moan because we didn't win every single point.
I for one am overjoyed that the Kenyan Muslim got his skinny ass handed to him on this deal.
Darksheare, have you read Travis McGee/Matt Bracken’s trilogy? Uncanny how events are so similar to what he describes in his book.
Pretty darn scary, ain’t it.
Uncannily similar. As in “hair raising on the back of the neck”.
There are things happening that are similar to “1984” by George Orwell and there’s a push for “A Brave New World” type crap.
Some people see those dystopian works as a handbook instead of the warning they were.
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