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“Believe it or not, sometimes politicians tell the truth because that is exactly what the House and Senate pubbies have been doing ever since the health care debacle.
obama has been trying to RULE by fiat.”

“McConnell might very well be one of the best parliamentary strategists there are. He has waltzed circles around reid AND obama and so has Boehner. They have caused a huge meltdown and the dems are reeling from this. They have nowhere to go.”

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I completely disagree with you. Have you forgotten their campaign promise to cut 100 billion from Obama’s huge $3.4 trillion budget? Then it became $81 billion, then 38.5 billion in phantom cuts that Mark Levin clearly demonstrated was really only about 1 billion in real cuts. The GOP also caved on the Planned Parenthood funding as well. All because Reid and McConnell were terrified that WAPO and the Slimes would say nasty things about them if they called Obama’s bluff and the federal government had to shut down for a while.

Now we come to the debt ceiling. The freshmen campaigned on a pledge not to raise the debt ceiling. (this is still Sarah Palin’s position) They compromised by agreeing to one last hike in return for Cut, Cap and Balance, which had some Democrat support. Reid and Obama rejected it out of hand. Instead of waiting for the Democrats to pass something, Boehner came out with his first Bill which was so bad it couldn’t pass. Under pressure he improved it slightly, and then rammed it through just barely only to have 59 Senators (including Jim Demint, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, the best we have)reject it within the hour. Make no mistake about it. When they run for reelection, the TEA Party freshmen will face ads from Democrats accusing them of hypocrisy for promising not to raise the debt ceiling but doing so anyway. It will be “Read my lips” all over again for those who buckled.

I don’t see any hope for a revival of Cut cap and balance. Why would the Dems revive that when they can work off the much more malleable Boehner bill? The Boehner bill will be revived, made much worse and then in a panic passed by the Senate just on the eve of the artificial August 2 deadline. It will be sent over to the House. Boehner will bring it up and it will be passed with near unanimous Democrat support and enough GOP votes (again supplied by Boehner) to get it through.

I think it is great that you are so optimistic,but here is noting about this process or Boehner’s past record (or McConnell’s) that makes me hopeful at all. McConnell’s statement about making Obama a one term President was just rhetoric. McConnell and Reid are both members of the GOP Establishment. If the Choice comes down to another term for Obama or Sarah Palin, they (and the boys on K Street who call the tune) will do all they can to try to ensure that Obama is reelected. They are not coming out and attacking Palin publicly because that would cost them votes. Instead they send out the Laura Ingrahams and Karl Roves and Rich Galens to do their dirty work. They are trying to marginalize and to dispirit the TEA Party, which they fear because they cannot control it.

Make no mistake about it. The GOP Establishment is the problem here. Unfortunately, not enough of the TEA Party freshmen stood firm

As Rush said, we have been played.