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Fiscal Conservatives Barred from Supercommittee (TeaParty not welcome)
Weekly Standard ^ | 8/2/2011 | Stephen Hayes

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; debtceiling; liberalfascism; rinofascism; snub; tyranny
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To: Ohioan

Time to primary all Yes votes!


21 posted on 08/02/2011 11:43:03 AM PDT by RED SOUTH (If you liked George W. Bush, youÂ’ll LOVE Rick Perry! Follow me on twitter @redsouth72)
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To: GreaterSwiss
Grow the TEA PARTY numbers. Make congress shake in their shoes. Clean house and save this country. Government by the people, not by the elite. To hell with the new world order, the U.N. and Islam. The Tea Party can make the U.S. great again. Photobucket
22 posted on 08/02/2011 11:44:06 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: mojito

.....guess who the13th. member of this gang is? ...none other than the The White House!

They have indicated that they will harness the power of the Super Congress, thereby becoming the de facto deciding 13th member.


23 posted on 08/02/2011 11:44:53 AM PDT by caww
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To: US Navy Vet
We WILL remember all of this BS in Nov 2012.

You've got that right. If there isn't a few (not just one) Tea party members on that committee, we'll KNOW we've been lied to by our 'own' party - AGAIN. If it weren't for the Tea party members, the republicans would still be sitting in the corner as the simple minority in the house.
By golly, for 2012 I'm going to work my butt (and fingers) off like never before to get out the Tea party votes. I've never been so pumped up!

Free the tax slaves. We're not animals!

24 posted on 08/02/2011 11:45:48 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: mojito

I Doubt very much that the people of Nevada could possibly re elected Harry. ACORN did it their way. Unless we vote in the precinct voting booth, and the ballots are hand counted by real people rather than manipulative computers, the scribes and Pharisee hypocrites will prevail!


25 posted on 08/02/2011 11:47:10 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( NO MORE BUSHS!)
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To: concerned about politics

Anyone know how Alan West voted last night?


26 posted on 08/02/2011 11:48:55 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

"Taxation without Representation"


27 posted on 08/02/2011 11:49:57 AM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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To: GreaterSwiss
SouporCongress? I'll take the Soup.

There is no Constitutional authorization to reconstitute the Legislative Branch.

Attempting to cut Conservatives out of the process will have dire consequences. It is a direct affront to the 'next to last box'.

Ignore the electorate at your peril, RINOs!

You could be looking for a job in the economy you create.

28 posted on 08/02/2011 11:50:11 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

if there were ever an engraved invitation to target, challenge and tithe from your paycheck in order to defeat Mitch McConnell, this is it.


29 posted on 08/02/2011 11:53:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Psalm 144
This will also seal in perpetuity the Republican and Democrat monopoly on power, because no independent or third party would EVER be appointed to the Royal Congress...........This is 'institutionalized taxation without representation.'.......A less extreme form was the whole reason for our secession from England.

Yes sir! Indeed!......Sounds like the demo-rats and re-pups have no intentions of letting their gravey train be foiled by the American people.

Just as they do with everything...they acknowledge the "new" changes the people demand...but then corral their sphere of control away from any who might have changed the face of Washington. That is what this committee of 13 is about....at any other time in history it would be called TREASON.

30 posted on 08/02/2011 11:54:46 AM PDT by caww
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To: conservativebabe
Did you see the thread from last night? I was one of the posters who voiced my displeasure about West voting “yea” (along with many others) and we were being told we were ignorant!

For some reason, there is a belief that we should accept this carp sandwich as a great beginning because the very same people who have spent us into oblivion are now going to get our fiscal house in order. Never mind that the cuts are nonexistent (especially when you factor in even the slightest bit of inflation - which has a really great chance of increasing over 10 years, dontcha think?) but the simplest act of just legislating no baseline increase next year would have lobbed 9 trillion off, immediately. Additionally, the 1% plan wasn't even considered! Suddenly, there are many who believe the same Congress that couldn't manage to stand on terra firma and say no are now going to do that with the help of the shopaholic democrats because they're now a "super" Congress.

Finally, they just reached into our pockets and gave Obama TRILLIONS more to blow on special interests and couldn't even make him responsible for it before the next election. Yea, those against this are ignorant, alright.

31 posted on 08/02/2011 11:56:12 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: GreaterSwiss

This type of concentration of power is NOT my definition of smaller gubmint. This is as scary as Barry’s unregulated and unsupervised Czars. -


32 posted on 08/02/2011 11:56:59 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Just takes 1 RINO and Democrats own the “supercommittee” anyhow.


33 posted on 08/02/2011 12:02:53 PM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: GreaterSwiss

bttt


34 posted on 08/02/2011 12:03:52 PM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: GreaterSwiss

“senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee”

So vote for it and get on that damned comittee. Talk about your misleading headlines.


35 posted on 08/02/2011 12:03:58 PM PDT by Grunthor (Faster than the speed of smell.)
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To: liberalh8ter

Agreed

Some of us are tired of being lied to or being told that it’s “the best we can expect”. BS! If our founders adopted that way of thinking we wouldn’t exist today.

Some of us expect to elect people who will ACTUALLY represent us and go to Washington to do as they say they will, which is the will of the people.

Some of us expect real results.

Days of compromise are over. Let the Tea Party be that which will save this Republic for all of us. They are our only hope at this point.


36 posted on 08/02/2011 12:05:42 PM PDT by conservativebabe
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To: US Navy Vet

Anyone know how Alan West voted last night?

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He voted: AYE


37 posted on 08/02/2011 12:06:00 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: ilgipper

Enough warnings. They need to be returned to the private sector, pronto.


38 posted on 08/02/2011 12:07:26 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Nuts; A house divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Good they should all refuse to serve on a totally unconstitutional committee.


39 posted on 08/02/2011 12:08:13 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: The Bronze Titan
A "RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION" Campaign should be started immediately by PRIMARYING and REMOVING all those who have SIGNED ON to this atrocity on the taxpayers of America!

We have one. It is a Free Republic Alliance site:


RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION - AN FR ALLIANCE SITE

40 posted on 08/02/2011 12:12:58 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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