Posted on 04/09/2011 12:25:41 PM PDT by Hojczyk
John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always wins the war but loses the peace, he has unilaterally disarmed the Republican Party by showing that he will not shut down the government and will, instead, willingly give way on even the most modest of cuts in order to avoid it. He now has no arrows left in his quiver.
Having failed to stand firm for just $61 billion in cuts in a budget of $3.7 trillion, how can we expect him to stand firm over the debt limit extension or the 2012 budget? We can’t. The excellent budget proposals of Paul Ryan are no more than a pipe dream now. Boehner has He sold us out now and he’ll sell us out again.
It is the duty of every Republican Congressman to vote no on this terrible deal. It violates our campaign promises to the American people. We promised $100 billion of cuts and we delivered $38 billion ($62 billion on a twelve month basis). In the Republican House’s first real test out of the box it has broken the promise over which it was elected. Only in Meat Loaf’s music is “two out of three not bad.”
This concession makes it clear that:
* Obamacare will not be defunded. * The EPA will not be blocked from regulating carbon. * The NLRB will not be stopped from forcing an end to secret ballots in union contests. * Medicaid will not be block granted and turned over to the states. * Welfare spending will not be cut nor work requirements imposed. * The FCC will not be stopped from regulating talk radio.
In short, we have accomplished nothing by our hard work in 2010.
Except we have learned a lesson.
And the lesson is this: We need to purify our party and purge it of the likes of John Boehner and all those Congressmen who vote for the budget sellout. The Tea Party must take the lead in this purifying fire. We must not let the RINOs win!
DickMorris.com will post prominently (and permanently) the names of all GOP freshmen who vote for this rotten deal. It will be in a column headed: THESE ARE THE SELLOUTS. Check it out and back their primary opponents!
Ironic, the wife just handed me our voter registration renewals...they just got updated with (I). No more (R) for me. Screw this.
Well Dick’s right about one thing. You can take it to the bank that the Pubbies will cave and vote to raise the debt ceiling. That is their only ace in the hole. After that the Dems will take Paulie Ryan’s budget and make Swiss cheese out of it.
“I’m not against abortion.”
Then what are you doing on this site?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2627159/posts
March on Washingto?
They are already marching us to the sea.
Not so. These are talismans of marxist power. PP murders millions. NPR perpetuates our slavery by openly using tax dollars we supply to maintain the political structure that supports our enslavement. What the rats show the people is that pubbies and patriots are powerless to stop funding murder or the financing of our own enslavement. That we are a laughable joke. That the dims are the real power and we better knuckle under to them for our own good. That is what really happened here. And don't tell me about only having congress. When we had the whole caboodle we didn't eliminate one, not one, of their marxist programs.
Maybe the only place that need to aborted is Washington
Or Limburger.
I don’t think it’s a sellout - it’s a toe-hold on the way toward climbing the mountain. The Pubbies only have one of the two branches of Congress and do not have the White House. They come out of this looking pretty good and having wrung more cuts from the Dims than I would have imagined. And the Dims come off looking really bad for threatening to cut off the salaries and death benefits to the troops. They look like scum, and people will remember.
We will revisit this all within two weeks, anyway.
Ignore the flushing sound. It's only our future.
All military personnel were issued checks or vouchers dated from April 1- April 8th and told that would be the last check they received if Congress did not pass a bill to extend the budget. Most other Federal employees didnt receive these checks/vouchers, just the military.
Congressional offices were overwhelmed with calls, emails and face to face confrontations from military personnel and families pleading with the Republican Leaders to cut a deal.. So Boehner took as much as he could get and made a deal, not because thats what he or the others wanted, but he, nor our party, wanted to stop the military from receiving their pay.. That was the deciding factor. Now where is this being played out in the media??
I can not stand Dick Morris.. I can not believe I actually agree with him
Yep
LOL how much is a cab to Maryland?
LOL how much is a cab to Maryland?
Yep
And we all become slaves to our Government master. .
I keep seeing these threads and all I can think of is which one of the armchair quarterbacks wants to be the one to look a soldier in the eye and tell him/her, “Sorry, but you keep getting your ass shot at for free while WE keep getting paid, and all the “nonessential” gov’t employees collect even more money from states that are already going bankrupt.”
NOW they know how far the dems will go and there are remedies already on the way. They used our TROOPS as blackmail and the whole country knows it. It won’t happen again. The fight is ahead. WE WILL winit.
Have a cigarette if you can afford it
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