Is Obama squirming over sequestration?

By: cjd87 (Diary)  |  February 5th at 01:39 PM  | 

On Jan 1st Congress and Obama made a deal that push sequestration back to March 1st. In that Obama was able to get his tax increases that he wanted on the “wealthiest Americans”, and apparently the GOP managed to screw up and paint him into a corner. That is the only thing that can explain why Obama is all of a sudden willing to do | Read More »

Does the No budget No pay bill really make a difference?

By: cjd87 (Diary)  |  January 24th at 08:37 AM  | 

I ask this in all seriousness. The House passing the bill is a good step I think, but where does it really get us? It allows Obama to continue his reckless spending until April at the earliest and only means that the Senate has to do the job that the Constitution requires them to do already. So again I ask does this really make a | Read More »

Can Conservatives win the coming debt limit and sequester fight?

By: cjd87 (Diary)  |  January 10th at 07:06 AM  | 

I ask this in all seriousness. I know that if we had a “leadership” that was more concerned with reigning in spending and reducing the debt we could win. The problem is we don’t have that kind of leadership. True, we do have some in Congress that feel this way and have the spine to make it work, but those unfortunately do not amount to | Read More »