Consider it then reject it! Watch these so called cons will cave once again.
FWIW, I’d consider the source first while keeping my powder dry :-)
Thanks Republicans for caving in. Just what we elected you for.
They conspired with the democrats to create this pressure.
Hensarling also backed Dede Scozzafava.
If your morbidly obese spouse needs to lose weight, the answer is more exercise and fewer calories. To agree to add more Twinkies and Ho Hos to their daily diet if they promise to start exercising later is not doing them a favor. Even adding lots of Twinkies once they start exercising a little is not a good idea. The federal budget is no different. The federal budget problem is uncontrolled spending, and the solution is less spending, not eating more.
Tax increases will be real and the cuts will never come(or gets jacked up in due time).
Those stupid, stupid fools
This could also be the GOP calling the Democrats’ bluff.
The Democrats have been counting on the GOP to draw a line at no new taxes, so they (1) wouldn’t have to come up with any actual spending cuts, and (2) could (along with their friends in the MSM) blame the GOP for things falling apart.
Now that the GOP has put some tax increases on the table, the Democrats have to come up with at least some spending cuts.
This could be smart poker by the GOP, or, as someone said, this could just be the GOP caving.
Yet another reminder of the difference between ‘Republican’ and ‘conservative’.
Republicans will cave. They ALWAYS do.
The GOP wins control of the House, assuring them control of the nation’s purse strings. WIN
Boner and McConnell agree to Democrat scheme of a secret SUPERCOMMITTEE which is mandated to control the budget or enforced cuts to the military take place. CHECKMATE. Dems block GOP success thanks to crying Boner and traitor McConnell.
Dems on committee dig heels in and demand tax increases. GOP capons on Supercommittee cave in. Game over. Dems win.
Why is the GOP leadership so feckless, stupid and cowardly?
If the Tea Party can’t make the GOP see reason, they should DESTROY the GOP and set up a real party of opposition to the Communists who run the Democrats.
Yep.
Our GOP friends have demonstrated no intention to reduce deficit spending. Time to shrug.
the ballot box has become a worthless lost cause.
This is soooo STUPID! Insane! We are 15 TRILLION in debt...more than 100% of our GDP! And in another 10 years we will be another 9 Trillion in debt. That is 24 TRILLION! And these IDIOTS can only find 1.2 trillion in "cuts"? And just where is that 9 trillion going to come from? And that doesnt include the "off-budget" accounting of unfunded liabilities of another 100 Trillion.
Hussein has racked up 4 Trillion in the last 3 years and the ENTIRE Chinese economy is 3 Trillion. So the money isnt coming from them! We are going down hard. Real hard.
Are the Republicans suicidal as well as stupid?
Republicans being stupid is an (unfortunately) oft-proved fact, given that they get snookered about 90% of the time by the Dems. You see, they think that politics is played by some set of gentlemen’s rules, when there is only one rule: WIN!
Suicidal, because millions that voted for Republican candidates in 2010 did so because of the explicit promise made to control the government. The only control that means anything is to limit its spending, and that also means starving it of revenue as much as possible to limit the spending. If they go back on their word by voting for a tax increase, then why in the world should anyone vote for them? At least the Dems are honest - they tell you in advance that they want to tax and regulate you nearly to death, and then to take as much money out of your pockets as possible before your family gets anything. Why vote for a 2-faced party that lies to your face and insults you by repeatedly claiming that “next time we’ll REALLY put the screws to them?”
In a 2-party system, one party is the opposition. What is the point of being the opposition party if you’re not going to, you know, ACTUALLY OPPOSE the party in power? Sometimes that means defeat and being pilloried in the press, and sometimes even not being invited to fashionable parties in Georgetown. I know that such is a heavy burden to bear </overwhelming sarcasm>, but that’s the whole damned point of being the opposition.
Seriously, I expect the Republican Party to give the finger to Obama and the Dems, to give them literally NOTHING, and to squawk loudly to the citizens of this country about how the Dems WANT a Super Committee failure so as to blame the Republicans. We have a genuine fiscal/economic crisis, and the Dems are just playing politics and preventing any realistic solutions. The Republicans shouldn’t cooperate (i.e. be useless idiots for the Dems), even if it costs them some brownie points with the rest of the inside-the-Beltway scumbags that have sold out our nation for power and money. Resistance is NOT futile - and the failure to resist WILL lose you LOTS of votes.
Please understand that the Dems can never allow spending cuts. That would be suicide for them. If there were real spending cuts then we would see that the world did not come to an end. Then we could go for more spending cuts. No the Dems will never allow this camel nose into the tent.
HEY JEB, YEAH YOU! What in the Hensarling are you doing?
If you say that you “ - - - would consider higher tax revenues to win a supercommittee deal - - - “, then what in the Hensarling are you CONSERVING?
ANYONE who raises taxes is guilty of DESTROYING money!
IF you want to cave-in and be a part of the Bipartisian Cave-in movement that has ALWAYS sold America down the river, then you no longer are conserving a damn thing.
You will be just another RINO. No better than Romney, McCain and all the other Rockefeller Republicans.
BTW, we are not eating anymore of the “go-along-to-get-along” GOP-Poop any more. Stand and deliver with us, or we will stand against you.
alas, we again reap the disasterous “fruits” of another rino republican compromise (i.e., boehner’s rule by oligarchy bill). complete divided government stalemate would have been far better.
is there anyone who still thinks the republican collective establishment, in all it’s fearful spinning and thrashing, isn’t as bad or worse then the marxist driven dems?
LLS
“Republicans on Wednesday signaled they would consider higher tax revenues to win a supercommittee deal if Democrats offer deeper cuts to entitlement spending”
Well of course they will. Anything to appease the Democrats. Until we rid ourselves of the RINO leadership in the House and Senate the American public is SOL.