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Posted on 12/13/2010 7:34:40 PM PST by Kaslin
Fiscal Policy: The godmother of the Tea Party movement suggests we bypass presidential commissions and Oval Office compromises on tax cuts and follow a well-thought-out path to fiscal discipline and prosperity.
To paraphrase President Obama's famous quote: We won, although one would never know it from the rush to let the current Congress — a roundly "refudiated" and defeated Congress — decide the fate of extending the current tax rates established by the Bush tax cuts nearly a decade ago.
The House Democratic caucus, populated by the largest number of lame ducks in recent memory, is being allowed to decide whether the compromise worked out between President Obama and Senate Republicans will even be brought to the floor for a vote.
The Tea Party is upset that a hard-fought election triumph is once again being squandered in the proverbial "smoke-filled" rooms.
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggests that the GOP act like it won a clear and convincing victory and simply follow the "Roadmap for America's Future" offered by one of its own, Rep. Paul Ryan.
Palin says we "should not settle for the big government status quo, which is what the presidential commission offers."
Nor, we might add, should we settle for the mere extension of current rates, the permanent enshrinement of ObamaCare, and the ongoing intrusion of big government into our daily lives.
The way to accomplish that is to starve the beast, and if there is any redistribution of wealth to be done, it will be from government back to the people who earned it and to the entrepreneurs who will risk theirs to create more for all of us.
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I really like Paul Ryan. I would like to see him run for POTUS using the slogan. “Von Ryans Express”
I just wish he would get as pissed off as the rest of us.
Every time I hear Ryan speak, I ask, “Why isn’t this man our President...instead of — ?”
If these jerks vote for the tax ‘compromise’ I don’t ever want to hear another word out of them about cutting, or fiscal responsibility, or debt, or, or, or ever again because I will know for sure they are lying.
Lying = lieing
Darn auto-fill iPad.
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Me too.
DeMint, Ryan, Rubio... Throw those three names in a hat and pull out two, and I'd be happy. Though I think Ryan and Rubio are a little green, they got guts though, and they're smart Conservatives.
I agree. We now have several great conservatives, with great ideas and backbone. Men and women. Now, it’s beginning to look possible to turn Amreica back, but another ingredient is spiritual. I’m pleased that so many are not only truly conservative, but also are genuine Christians, the factor that contributes the most to their character and the strength of it.
I read his roadmap. He’s advocating a VAT (calls it BCT) instead of corp taxes. What are peoples’ thoughts on that?
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