Posted on 08/02/2011 2:19:47 PM PDT by Hojczyk
It seems to be the new talking point: The deal is a victory for conservatives not because of what it does (which is, not much!), but because it supposedly represents a change in the direction of the debate. Once, Washington discussed what to grow. Now, Washington discusses what to cut. Even former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has echoed the theme — but with qualifications. The Wall Street Journal Washington Wire reports:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Monday’s House vote to lift the debt ceiling was a victory for the tea party, proving that conservative activists had shifted the conversation in Washington.
“We shall take this victory and make sure our politicians in office today are learning from this victory,” Ms. Palin said Monday night on Fox News, where she is a paid contributor. “It’s not a 100% pure genuine victory. We just handed the most liberal president, I believe, in U.S. history a $2.4 billion debt increase.” …
Ms. Palin didn’t fully embrace the deal, saying she had plenty of problems with the compromise between the White House and congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker John Boehner. In the past, the former governor said she was not convinced America would face a default if lawmakers did not raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2.
Meanwhile, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), one of the founders of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress (along with GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann), says the deal can’t possibly be touted as a win.
“The Tea Party is not calling this a victory,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said today on Fox News. “I’m certainly not.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Well, I think Sarah can speak for herself so I posted the TRANSCRIPT for all to see.
It’s amazing some people don’t realize Fox provide transcripts to interviews.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2757719/posts
If you like the result the establishment has provided the past few days, then you should be supporting an establishment backed candidate.
That was not a correct representation.
Blasphemy. She could never say anything but those words writ for her by God.
SHE is the NEW savior and you had best get used to it.
Well, I think that we shall take this victory and make sure that our politicians in office today are learning from this victory, realizing that it's not 100 percent pure, genuine victory because realize, Greta, we just handed the most liberal president, I believe, in U.S. history a $2.4 trillion debt increase. We're allowing him to increase the budget even more, and without guaranteed cuts, and without guaranteed reforms. And we have to make sure that we realize that, yes, this is a victory, because Tea Party patriots did shift the debate. However, there's so much more work to do in order to get the economy back on the right track and to restore the exceptionalism that is America.
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Right. A couple of things there. One is Obama did get what he wanted in terms of not having to deal with this issue until after the election. So that was his part of a victory there. But another thing in terms of timing of all this, what happened to the pledge that our congressmen had made to America, saying that they would post online for three days any bill before it was voted upon? They've already broken that pledge. You know, and doggone it, that makes us disappointed in our politicians in Washington, D.C. We want to make sure they're fulfilling the promises that they've made. But yes, there's -- it's a step in the right direction. Yet still, you know, I'm not celebrating as a pure 100 percent victory the actions that have been taken because, again, we're handing a very liberal president and his colleagues a check in order to spend even more money that we don't have. We're not taking the steps still to reform entitlements so that those safety nets can be there for future generations. And we're not taking steps, Greta, to become energy independent. We're still over there talking to dictators, talking to foreign country leaders, asking them to ramp up development of energy supplies when we have those God-given resources here, underfoot, that we should be developing in order to be energy secure, one more step to get the economy back on the right track.
I don't personally care which candidate you're pushing, but at least make an attempt at objectivity. If you saw the interview, this headline was taken out of context and is very misleading.
It's far more of step in the wrong direction. No one should be spinning the deal as anything but a disaster.
Your PDS is quite known - so your comments are considered null and void.
I have to agree with Palin, she called it like it is. I have to check even myself sometimes when we don't get everything we want....right now.
The left has been at this for close to a hundred years now, they have incrementally imposed their agenda taking three steps forward, kicked back maybe one step by the GOP but none the less accomplishing a two step “progress”. The last fifty years have yielded the most dramatic “change”
We have at least two generations of commie/socialist infiltration to fix, whether it can be done peacefully remains to be see......I have my doubts. IMHO, of course.
Except there could be tax increases and the spending cuts are merely reductions in the increase of spending years down the line that might never happen.
Plenty of people like me over at C4P who said this was not the Governor’s best moment.
And I should add that I still think Governor Palin is our best shot at a true STATESWOMAN as President, as opposed to politicians.
Well, that's nice, Steve. That's certainly accurate. But, I must ask: Would it have been a "victory" if the debt ceiling had been raised $2.4 TRILLION via the bill YOU and all but nine of your Republican colleagues voted for?
Ron Paul! He’s less nuts than EVERYBODY else.
Taxes could still be raised if the "super committee" deems it necessary. The Bush tax cuts or other tax loopholes may be closed, effectively raising taxes. AND, WE ARE SPENDING SIGNIFICANTLY MORE. The "cuts" are a reduction in the increase that may never actually happen and after trillions more have been added to the debt.
Only Sarah Palin could compel someone to make a conservative come up with a spin like this.
Are you getting dizzy from doing all that spinning?
I don't like the results. The only candidates that I have seen that have said the results were in anyway good are Jon Huntsman and Palin.
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