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The McConnell “deal” sells out conservative principles

By: Chris Chocola (Diary)  |  July 15th, 2011 at 02:04 PM  | 

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Folks,

I don’t want to repeat a lot of the great points that Erick has made already about the McConnell “contingency deal.” The proposal is a dereliction of duty and everything that we all hate about Washington. It punts responsibility at exactly the point when Republicans want Americans to give them more. The Club for Growth has announced that we oppose the McConnell-Reid-Pelosi deal and we’ll be Key Voting against it for multiple reasons.

This is a critical moment in the debate over the debt ceiling. I can tell you now that any Republican who votes to give President Obama MORE power, allowing him to RAISE the debt ceiling WITHOUT guaranteed spending cuts and a Balanced Budget Amendment …well, I can tell you that voting to do so is selling out. It means you put politics before principle. It means you put elections before doing what’s right. It means you care more about protecting your job than saving America.

Senator McConnell and the rest of the Republicans in the Senate and in the House need to hear it from the Tea Party movement. They need to hear it from the grassroots. Erick has written on here many times for Republicans to “hold the freaking line.” I couldn’t agree more.

Call your Reps and Senators now and tell them you oppose the McConnell-Reid-Pelosi “contingency deal.”

Best,
Chris Chocola
President, Club for Growth
www.ClubForGrowth.org

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  • sta46

    please call John Boehner’s office and express your support for him holding the line. In view of the fact that the fate of America basically rests on his shoulders it must be hard for him to stand firm while knowing that his counterpart in the next building is doing everything he can to undermine all Boehner’s best efforts. Sadly, I am in TN and just called my sens… Corker claims to be against it… I pointed out that he is up for re-election in 2012 and that Marsha Blackburn woould be a fine candidate to primary him to death if he votes the wrong way. Lamar allegedly hasn’t come out with a position yet but I suggested a recall petition could be in the offing immediately if he supports the traitor mcconnell.
    If any of you are in KY 1, I hope you are burning up the lines and threatening a recall petition by this time tomorrow.
    If you live where there are good Senators, please ask them to contact Boehner and offer their support for him to continue saying no. this is it, kids…. there will be no tomorrow if he folds.

    • ihateliberals

      .man. Please no offense to anyone that only has one arm. No disrespect intended. Boehner is a caver-inner. That is what he is expert in. The thought of having a fight terrifies him. He is a lot like a turtle. He withdraws into his shell until the danger passes.

  • smitch61

    I will give it my best shot. They don’t care about tea party members, their principles, or the conservative movement in general. We have been down this road before too many times to suit me. Why do you think conservatives do not bother going into the voting booth?

  • Whacker77

    As a Kentuckian, I’ve had three opportunites to vote for Mitch McConnell. The first came in 1996 and then again in 2002 and 2008. I’ve always defended him because he’s always proved to be a shrewd politician.

    I can’t support what McConnell has done this week though. While his deal may have been something to try at the very last moment, it was not something to try in the middle of the fight. He sold out the conservative cause and left the House hanging.

    As a Kentuckian though, I can tell you none of this should have come as a surprise. McConnell has never been someone who cared about the conservative cause. He’s always been a Republican set on out manuevering the Democrats. That’s a big difference.

    While I don’t believe McConnell should be primaried in 2014, I do believe he needs to lose his leader status. He doesn’t represent the core of the party anymore. When elected in 1984, he did. Now, he doesn’t.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    Mitch McConnell is a fool or a traitor, or both.

    If, in spite of McConnell’s sabotage, the GOP takes over the Senate in 2012, the new majority has to take control back from the Lisa Murkowski wing of the party.

    If not sooner.

  • swi2522

    obama will not negotiate with the repubs
    he will raise the debt ceiling by executive order
    time for impeachment proceedings

    its going to get ugly very ugly

  • glaucon

    “give President Obama MORE power”

    That is the real issue. How much more power will Congress relinquish to the One?

    There is an analogy that is overused, and should really only be used in the most extreme and appropriate cases. This appears to be one of those cases. Let’s just say that in 1932 Germany, politicians (making political arguments similar to McConnell) were most likely saying “if we make him Chancellor, we can blame the economic depression on him”. The rest is history. Is it repeating itself?

    • westcoastpatriette

      of McConnell’s turncoat behavior that really makes sense. I think it was sheer terror on his part as his proclamation of “Plan B” followed on the heels of Obama’s threat to withhold S.S. checks if the debt ceiling is not raised. He had fear all over his face when he made his proclamation–like he temporarily lost control of himself in panic.

      Classic capitulation of an entrenched RINO.

    • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

      Mr. Levin said on his show Thursday or Friday he’s spoken with McConnell twice in his life both at McConnell’s request, one time within about the past week. Levin said he agreed the conversation would be private. My guess is if McConnell thought he was going to change Mark Levin’s mind it didn’t work.

  • Right Reason

    All of the pundits who are praising McConnell’s deal are looking at it through the prism of politics. By proposing it, McConnell has clearly identified himself as a man who puts party and electoral advantage over principle and country. And I think we have all had more than our fill of these men. They are no better on our side than they are on the other. McConnell is a politician and not a statesman. Unfortunately, right now we need more of the latter and less of the former.

  • amigag

    I’ve already contacted Rob Portman on this (OH Senator), Just sent an email to our County Chair Republican Party on scheduled House vote set for next week by Speaker Boehner & Eric Cantor.(see Hotair art.) Also Jess Sessions point of order mentioned here on R.S. Called his office with a big Thanks!

    Will contact local Tea Party on this McConnell proposal & Rep Party Chair also.

    Thanks for this information also.

    The Republicans/Conservatives in the U.S. House and Senate better remember the lesson of the Three Little Pigs & the Big Bad Wolf. Only the Brick house withstood the huffing & puffing. Not a good place to be when your enemies and your friends are both against you!!

    Amigag

  • snowshooze

    McConnell seems to think giving Obama money and driving us further in debt would be a great way to show how poor Obamanomics are, and insure a GOP presidential victory??
    And put the next debt ceiling debate beyond the Presidential elections? This man is on which side?
    The only cuts I have heard offered up are Medicare, which by it’s elimination, would force all the participants into Obamacare…( Good one!) and make it bulletproof.. Curtailing Social Security PAyments….closing the Parks… and pretty much anything we actually WANT from the government.
    But there are about a million government agencies…. I have yet to even hear so much as a mention from either side about cutting the ” Sacred ” bureaucracies.
    — Throw Grandma to the streets, but save our buddies, and family members…gee they vote too, and they are on our side–
    Here is a list about a mile long of agencies… if you care to look.
    http://www.akdart.com/gov1.html
    Not a single cut.

  • wolfgang

    First of all, The Obama Administration is filled with people who are opposed to Capitalist Free Market Principles and The United States Constitution. The three that come to mind first are Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein, Director Of Communications Anita Dunn, and Car Czar Ron Bloom. All Three have a fondness for former Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao and his phrase “All power emanates from the barrel of a gun!” One wonders how this circumstance would play in the ranks of the Marines who dragged the bodies of their dead comrades back with them during that agonizing winter retreat from the Frozen Chosin.
    The United States has been lead by stupid men before, men who were misled, men who were misinformed, men who let their genitals do their thinking, but never by truly evil men until now.
    Adolph Hitler came to power as German Chancellor in January,1933 as part of a compromise. There were men in German President Hindenbergs cabinet who felt that they could control Hitler in spite of his credentials. As part of Hitler’s settling scores with those who tried to oppose or control him, the morning after the Night of the Long Knives, the wife of a newspaper editor and publisher who had vehemently opposed Adolph Hitler awoke to a knock on her front door and found a stranger standing there. The stranger silently handed Frau Gerlich her husband’s bloody spectacles then walked away. After the German Army agreed to Hitler’s demands and swore allegiance to Hitler alone, instead of to the German State as before, there was only one way left to stop Hitler. Those who later did try to stop him ended up hanging from MEATHOOKS.
    America once more finds itself at the crossroads of Lexington and Concord. If Mitch McConnell thinks he can placate the 47% of Americans who feel that one of Governments obligations is to arrange their pillows behind them for maximum comfort as they recline at table and provide servants who will periodically drop succulent grapes into their open and waiting mouths while at table, and still retrieve America as he once knew it in November, 2012, he’s sadly mistaken. The America of 2012, after Obama running amok financially unfetterd for sixteen months will be unrecognizable and irretrievable.

  • vamoose

    I don’t think he would have made this proposal. McConnell has no skin in the game this go ’round. He still doesn’t comprehend the 2010 election results, even though his hand-picked successor to Jim Bunning was primaried by Rand Paul. It was this type of “leadership” from McConnell that doomed conservative senators like George Allen & Jim Talent.

    And remember, if McConnell had his way Charlie Christ would be a senator.

  • MOlsen6

    The objectives are the same, namely to Cap, Cut, and Balance. The issue before us solely concerns tactics.

    A few questions for Chris Chocola and the Club for Growth:

    1) Why is this a good time to make a deal on the deficit? Republicans have a small majority in the House of Representatives. Democrats control the Senate and the Presidency. Why oh why is this a good time to make demands of Democrats? Because the MSM says so? Really??? They want the Republicans to make a deal now, because if they wait until after the next election, Republicans would get a much better deal … so it is to the Democrats/MSM advantage to deal now, not after November 2012. You *SHOULD* make a deal from a position of strength, for example a majority in the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. At a minimum, one should have two of the three.

    2) The United States is not going to go bankrupt over this debt increase. There is NO ILL in this situation that can not be fixed by higher growth rates (the Club for Growth should be familiar with this argument), and there will never be enough cutting to make up for very slow growth rates. The *ONLY* solution is a conservative president and strong conservative representation in Congress. In this situation, a 5% growth rate cures all ills.

    3) Unemployment is currently about 9.3%, depending on your state. Do you really think Obama can be re-elected under these circumstances? The answer is no *UNLESS* some group of morons band together to rescue him from his own *MISERABLE* economic policy decisions. And then of course he will blame them for not making the US heaven on earth in 15 months. He gets all the credit, the conservatives get all the blame, and he gets re-elected with nice majorities in both houses of congress. What a deal!

    4) Mitch McConnell is exactly right. When Obama wraps himself in a shroud and douses it with gasoline, hand the man a match and walk away. I repeat, the US debt/budget will *NOT* implode between now and next November … he can’t destroy the economy unless we let him by enabling him with a government shutdown. Then he could really trash the economy by downgrading US debt, destroying Teir 1 capital and worsening an inevitable European Banking Crisis. The ONLY THING that can save his presidency at this point is a *BIG* deal with conservatives that actually fixes the economy … so he can get 4 more years to muck everything up some more.

  • snowshooze

    I see the idea here…but who, in their right mind wouild be willing to let Obama keep digging now?
    We cannot afford to play that long game. We have enough strength now to play hard ball.. instead of blowing over.
    Maybe the weather will be nicer next year.
    Look, this has gone on far too long as it is, we can’t afford the McConnell strategy, we don’t need to pay trillions in additionall debt to prove what a disaster we are letting him build. That is insanity.
    What we need is representation, real, responsible representation.
    We didn’t wipe out the house to send the new crew in with the white flag.
    That kind of help, we do not need.

  • joecollins

    for the new Majority Leader, if the Republicans successfully take over the Senate.

    That is not a good situation.

  • post4u

    McConnell’s term is up in 2014. I don’t think he will re-up. McConnell is a very astute political person. He has said a couple things that back up his political savvy. 1. He has stated his one political goal is that Obama is a one-term President. 2. He has stated that the Republicans will not carry the President’s water for his poor economy.

    McConnell’s plan is good (if Harry Reid doesn’t mess it up with his revisions). McConnell put forth his plan at the right time……in time enough to rescue Republican personalities (like Cantor) from even more bashing…….in time enough to get the House Republicans to determine it’s time to quit playing with the President.

  • bs61

    If they win, would they vote for the current ‘leaders’

  • cordpt

    Hopefully you are right.

    Otherwise, I hope you and others who share your opinion – DeMint, and talk-show hosts like Levin et all -, man up and assume full responsibility for their cult-pleasing tactics if Obama is re-elected in 2012, the Dems keep control of the Senate and regain the House. And if such a disaster for the country happens, assuming full responsibility can’t be less that leaving the public eye for good.

    Right now, Obama owns this stagnant economy, owns the hugely unpopular public debt growth, owns the massive unemployment

    If you’re correct, the Senate will pass and Obama will sign the cap, cut and balance bill the House will approve. So, we’ll know soon enough.

  • ihateliberals

    but I can’t see where McConnell is putting Party in there. If anything his actions will ultimately destroy his alleged beloved GOP. I think he trough the Party under the bus and then sped up.

  • ihateliberals

    McConnells plan is only good for the Democrats. It will allow them to spend what ever they wan for the rest of Obama’s first term. This voting bullcrap is just tht bullcrap. when was the last time you got 2/3 of the congress to do anything. Obamacare and that was because both majorities were Democrats!!! The Democrats already knows all they have to do with Boehner is wait him out and he will cave. Now they know how to handle the Senate even if they are the majority. I really dont think the Republicans have a majority in the house. There are Democrats, Conservatives and RINO’s. Those three factions. Just think of the Chaos if the Tea Party is forced out of the GOP. It would be Venezuela all over again.

  • rj145

    The most recent “cowardice under fire” by the Republican leadership on the debt issue, highlights the the need to change the term limits for any elective office to ONE!

    The conduct of too many of our elected officials suggests that the addictive effects of power and corruption is too great. Some are there because they are already corrupt, or are willing to be corrupted. The well intentioned take a bit longer. Ultimately all will be compromised. A single term will not eliminate the corruption but would go a long way towards limiting the damage.