Skip to comments.
The suicide of the House is complete
American Thinker ^
| Sep 7, 2019
| Larry Schweikart
Posted on 09/07/2019 4:56:12 AM PDT by BeauBo
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-48 next last
More cogent points are made at the link.
1
posted on
09/07/2019 4:56:12 AM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: LS
2
posted on
09/07/2019 4:56:43 AM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: BeauBo
Lyin’ Ryan, the leftwing globalist, absolutely screwed America and our Constitution.
3
posted on
09/07/2019 4:58:10 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: BeauBo
Take the money and run while the running is good.
To: BeauBo
"...1995, when the newly elected Republican Congress under Newt Gingrich caved in to media pressure to give Bill Clinton his bloated budget. Since then, no House has even attempted to control the deficits or the debt. " Hey Larry... Do you ever bother to check your history? Newt Gingrich BALANCED the budget and forced Bill Clinton to abandon his bloated budgets (small by todays standards)
5
posted on
09/07/2019 5:02:50 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: All
The election of DJT has driven the Ds to full-blown socialism and the Rs to suicide (as per this article).
I like it!!!
To: newfreep
The only time I wish to read that a holes name is in the obits. I detest him more than Romney because he was in office road blocking anything trump wanted to do beyond the tax cut.
7
posted on
09/07/2019 5:08:07 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The media is the enemy of the people.)
To: Mr. K
I dont think Federal spending declined even once during Newt Gingrichs tenure as House Speaker, though the growth from one year to the next was quite small. The shrinking of the budget deficit was entirely a function of added tax revenues from the major changes in the tax code from 1995 to 1998 specifically the reduction in capital gains tax rates and the introduction of the Roth IRA.
8
posted on
09/07/2019 5:14:39 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
To: Mouton
FOX News hiring Lyin’ Ryan & Donna Brazile (rhymes with “vile”) speaks volumes of their CNN-lite agenda.
9
posted on
09/07/2019 5:18:36 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: JonPreston
"The election of DJT has driven exposed the Ds full-blown socialism..."
10
posted on
09/07/2019 5:20:23 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: BeauBo
I was young, but some days I yearn for the 90s. Really did not get to appreciate it
11
posted on
09/07/2019 5:43:05 AM PDT
by
George Rand
(-- I can't befriend liberals because I won't befriend ignorance --)
To: BeauBo
Im sure the rats are donating to the retirement of any GOP’er thinking of it thereby keeping the house in their possession. The cancer and scumbags run deep
To: BeauBo
“it never helps to lose an incumbent”
Huh????
Term limits aside, 22-term Sensenbrenner’s retirement is going to drive up Republican turnout in a solid Republican district in a very tight 2020 presidential race in Wisconsin.
It almost seems strategic.
13
posted on
09/07/2019 6:00:40 AM PDT
by
rephope
To: Mr. K
We had two things helping this. The dot.com economy and substantally cutting the military.
14
posted on
09/07/2019 6:19:10 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Mr. K; LS
15
posted on
09/07/2019 6:21:44 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: Mr. K
Larry seems to have forgotten that the 2020 election will allow the PEOPLE to replace the “big spenders” of BOTH parties.
Once we replace them, the spending cuts that all reasonable people want will finally, FINALLY become possible!
16
posted on
09/07/2019 6:27:59 AM PDT
by
pfony1
(Put Up or Shut Up!)
To: BeauBo
“The old order changeth yielding place to the new”
17
posted on
09/07/2019 6:35:40 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: Mr. K
The budget had a tiny, tiny “surplus” (meaningless cuz the debt wasn’t touched). Fine. Credit that to Newt. But the GOP was broken by Clinton, and I think you know that.
18
posted on
09/07/2019 6:47:29 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Alberta's Child
Exactly right. A “balanced budget” was a technicality-—Newt/Clinton achieved a tiny surplus on paper, but did nothing to touch the debt.
19
posted on
09/07/2019 6:48:25 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
To: rephope
Incumbents win something like 95% of their races.
ANY time you lose an incumbent for any reason mathematically it increases your chances of losing the seat.
20
posted on
09/07/2019 6:49:17 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-48 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson