Posted on 08/02/2011 8:05:19 PM PDT by freemama
There are many here smarter than I, so please help me with this theory.
In all the rush to pass the debt bill, did we get tricked? I think the Super Congress committee is an unbelievable power grab. They have locked out anyone who voted against the bill, so conservatives will not be part of the process. Yet these conservatives are elected representatives of the people. That's just not right.
To concentrate the power of the pursestrings in such a small group seems like a dangerous thing and easily corrupted. I think this structure has been put in place and will be used against us in the future.
What do you think?
I agree and I think this will have to go through the courts.
I think everyone in D.C. needs to be tarred, feathered, put in the stocks, run out on a rail, and made to wear a “T” for treason for the rest of their sorry miserable lives.
Everything the Dims do is a trick of one form or another.
Yes, the “super committee” is a horrible idea, very bad precedent, and I don’t see how it’s Constitutional to bar representatives from serving based on a previous vote.
But lifting the debt ceiling (and thereby giving these communists another couple trillion dollars to invest in their reelection campaign) was bad enough all by itself.
So you’re just now getting around to wondering? A little late to the party are we? I was well past that when McConnell offered up his idiocy. They lost me when Boehner decided the first one wasn’t enough.
bad bad deal
tiki- depending on courts is a bad idea
Disappointed more then ticked. The “ticked” will come later, after I have a good yelling fit. Pity the next wall I have a disagreement with.
What the hell did we elect these asshats for, to kowtow to the Dems? They did nothing. They have achieved nothing. Obama and the Dems won.
No. We got sold out. We didn't get 'tricked' because you can't be tricked by something you see coming at you from a mile away.
‘Caveman’ Boehner living up to his moniker.
You’re asking two rather separate questions.
The “Super” committee is fraud, fake, theatre, unconstitutional, dangerous tyrranical power grabbing. It is unconscionable.
Did we get hosed on the debt deal? The cuts amount to roughly $10 billion over the next 2 years, about 2.5 days of borrowing at present rates. The debt raise is 2.4 trillion. Yeah, great deal.
Every wonder why the Department of Health and Human Services got an extra half trillion? Ever wonder if they just funded ObamaCare?
Absolutely, the crisis was caused by Obama and his henchmen.
He lied, making up up perils which did not exist to scare the conservatives in Congress. And it worked! Congress caved so Obama brays!
The Dems ran circles around the GOP in this. All by using one clever device, tying the economy to the debt ceiling.
The economy is tanking at the hands of the democrats and everyone knows it. All they had to do was set a false deadline and go out in the media spouting how the economy will be hurt if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.
I think the underground economy will continue to grow.
No!!!! We wern’t tricked, we were screwed with extra course sandpaper by our leadership.
I think you are mistaken about people being locked out. That story started on The Weekly Standard and has been denied I believe.
We will know soon. They have two weeks, according to the new law, to fill the positions.
Regardless, we Freedom lovers were not ‘tricked’, just ignored. And screwed. Again.
First time in Washington, son?
If you have to ask...
You may have doubts, I don’t
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