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To: Kaslin
Kaslin wrote:
Very well said. Also what is important is concentrate on the Senate and make sure we get not just the majority, but the super majority back.
Yeah!!!! Why, if we can keep the House, with establishment leadership like Boehner and Cantor, take the Senate with establishment leadership like McConnell, and take the Presidency with a former Texas Governor like Perry, we could accomplish many things: I could go on.

All of those things, and more happened the last time Republicans had a strong majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican President (who happened to be a former Governor of Texas).

Boehner and his party leadership promised last year that they would cut spending back to 2008 levels. Here's a picture of him holding up a copy of "A Pledge to America" (PDF Version).

Speaker John Boehner holds up a copy of "A Pledge to America" at Tart Lumber Company on September 23, 2010.
Speaker John Boehner holds up a copy of "A Pledge to America" at Tart Lumber Company on September 23, 2010.
Now, I understand that the Senate will be a problem, and that the President will veto any actual spending cuts. However, so far, Boehner's Republican controlled House of Representatives has funded the government through Fiscal Year 2011 at levels higher than spending in Fiscal Year 2010. Further, the Republican Controlled House has already passed at least 7 of the 13 appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012, and as far as I can tell, every one of those bills appropriates more in total than was appropriated to those departments in Fiscal Year 2011. (though I'm not 100% sure, and with FY 2011 being all in continuing resolutions, comparisons are difficult)

The Republicans not only have not presented any plan to live up to their promises last year, they haven't even started heading in the right direction with their legislative proposals.

In every respect, Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hensarling and the rest of the GOP leadership have failed on spending. They continue to spend more money every year. If they can't get behind a 1% per year actual overall reduction (in absolute dollars) over the next few years, they haven't earned my support. They need to pass that through the House. If it doesn't survive the Senate or gets negotiated away in the conference, then it's on us to resolve the problems in the Senate.

But in 2010, the TEA Party elected the GOP to a majority in the House. We were clear in that election, and in elections since then, "Stop spending more than you take in, and stop borrowing money from foreigners and out of thin air to pay for spending we don't need."

Thus far, Boehner doesn't get it.

He needs a serious primary challenge from within his district, and I hope that he can be picked off. The same goes for Cantor, McCarthy and Hensarling.

That said, this clown who has announced doesn't meet my specifications. He apparently doesn't live in the district, and he doesn't look very serious to me.

214 posted on 09/18/2011 5:06:06 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)
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To: cc2k

“In every respect, Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hensarling and the rest of the GOP leadership have failed on spending. They continue to spend more money every year. If they can’t get behind a 1% per year actual overall reduction (in absolute dollars) over the next few years, they haven’t earned my support.”

BUMP


215 posted on 09/18/2011 5:24:30 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
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To: cc2k

Mega bump. My view is that if the past can be a possible predictor of the future, then even if we get solid majorities in the House, and the Senate, and we get a Republican President, the Republicans won’t concentrate on reducing the size of the Government, reducing overall spending, and being ruthless in defunding all things leftist. What the Republicans will do is keep the dollars coming in, and redirecting them to their own spending priorities. The ruling elite Republicans are as disgusting as the ruling elite Democrats.


216 posted on 09/18/2011 6:12:54 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: cc2k

The caption could read “Five Failures”, and “We Want More!”


217 posted on 09/18/2011 7:32:18 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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