It Is As We Feared

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 15th, 2011 at 05:00 AM |

RESIZE: AAA

On Sunday, Republican Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the Senate Republicans’ point man on deficit reduction, went on Fox News Sunday and told Chris Wallace that Senate Republicans will consider tax increases to cut the deficit.

Chambliss’s partner in crime is Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia who added that they’ll tinker with the social security retirement age without any other substantive entitlement reforms.

Democrats are already salivating that they can merge the continuing resolution debate with the debt-ceiling debate. Republicans, scared of a government shutdown and refusing to even consider it, are happy to merge the two knowing it will be hard for conservatives to stand for what leadership aides are spinning as both a shutdown and defaulting on loans.

Conservatives are, therefore, getting played by Republicans leaders in the House. Compounding that, House Republicans are making insignificant spending cuts and refusing to pick a fight over Obamacare. They do not, under any stretch of the imagination, want a government shut down. House Leaders know the only way to shut down Obamacare is to shut down the government and negotiate Obamacare out of existence.

So they’d rather keep Obamacare.

That brings us to the three week continuing resolution. To quote Admiral Ackbar, “It’s a trap.” House Leaders and Senate Leaders want to drag out the continuing resolution so it can be wrapped into the debt ceiling debate. They think doing so would shut up conservatives and stop all the silly nonsense about cutting spending in a meaningful way.

We must fight this. Below the fold are the names and direct phone numbers of key Republican congressmen in the House. Call each of them. Demand they oppose the three week continuing resolution.

Report back here in the comments with their position.

Last Name	State	Phone Number
Griffin	AR	202-225-2506

Schweikert	AZ	202-225-2190
Franks	AZ	202-225-4576

Denham	CA	202-225-4540
McClintock	CA	202-225-2511

Gardner	CO	202-225-4676
Coffman	CO	202-225-7882
Lamborn	CO	202-225-4422

Southerland	FL	202-225-5235
Webster	FL	202-225-2176
West	FL	202-225-3026

A. Scot	GA	202-225-6531
Woodall	GA	202-225-4272
Broun	GA	202-225-4101

Labrador	ID	202-225-6611

Walsh	IL	202-225-3711

Rokita	IN	202-225-5037
Stutzman	IN	202-225-4436
T. Young	IN	202-225-5315
Pence	IN	202-225-3021

Pompeo	KS	202-225-6216

Landry	LA	202-225-4031
Fleming	LA	202-225-2777
Scalise	LA	202-225-3015

Harris	MD	202-225-5311

Amash	MI	202-225-3831
Huizenga	MI	202-225-4401

Ellmers	NC	202-225-4531
Foxx	NC	202-225-2071

Garrett	NJ	202-225-4465

Pearce	NM	202-225-2365

Buerkle	NY	202-225-3701
Reed	NY	202-225-3161

Lankford	OK	202-225-2132

Gowdy	SC	202-225-6030
Mulvaney	SC	202-225-5501
T. Scott	SC	202-225-3176

Fleischman	TN	202-225-3271
Fincher	TN	202-225-4714
Blackburn	TN	202-225-2811

Chaffetz	UT	202-225-7751

Griffith	VA	202-225-3861
Hurt	VA	202-225-4711
Rigell	VA	202-225-4215

Ribble	WI	202-225-5665

Lummis	WY	202-225-2311

Tags: Continuing Resolution, House Republicans, Senate Democrats

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bk

When Dems are in power, they steamroll the GOP, the rules – anything that gets in their way.

When the GOP is in power (yeah I know it’s ‘only’ the House), they look for ways to shoot themselves in the foot and bend over backwards compromising, while the Dems are on TV 24/7 griping about how evil and partisan and rule-breaking the Republicans are.
davesinsanantonio

campaign on our parts. They do not want to shut down the government because in their hearts they believe that government is the answer to all problems.
We the People are the sovereigns of this nation, We must convince our servants that they must do our will. That we did not send them to Washington to compromise with the devil. That they will be out of a job next primary season if they cave in to the Left.
We must convince them that we would rather have no government than to have Obamacare. And, when the government shuts down we do not want the furloughed workers to get paid for their few days of unscheduled vacation. They are way overpaid as it is, and they need to suffer the way the taxpayers have been sufferering. Maybe their pain will convince the Demo-rats to give in.
Start the campaign now, and keep it up until we get what we voted for. Do not let up until we get it all. We cannot let the wimps compromise our liberties and livelihoods away for the sake of “amity”. We do not want an “amiable” destruction of our country, we want to save it. And we need to be as ruthless in its defense as the enemy has been in its attempted destruction!
Diogenes314

Unfounded accusations of GOP malice, that is.

“House Leaders and Senate Leaders want to drag out the continuing resolution so it can be wrapped into the debt ceiling debate. They think doing so would shut up conservatives and stop all the silly nonsense about cutting spending in a meaningful way.”

Based on what? The article linked to that states…

“Boehner wants to keep each of these separate, because each one is an opportunity to demand more and larger concessions from the Democrats. Democrats need to bring them together, which is part of why they?re trying to slide the 2011 spending bill into a larger deficit-reduction conversation that can also include a rise in the debt limit.”

Then again, Chambliss did say Republicans will consider raising taxes.

Okay, three Republicans.

And what he actually said…

“Well, we can increase revenues without increasing taxes, per se, Chris. And as a matter of fact, that our proposal does is to reduce the effective and direct tax rates all the way across the board. And we do that by making a significant reform in the tax code. ”

So he wants to increase tax revenues while reducing rates?

By all means, time to panic.
smhart

I live in Florida. All three Republican congressmen were elected in 2010. I could only leave a voice message for Webster. The voice mail for West and Southerland were full. I emailed West but was not allowed to email Southerland or Webster. Funny… I bet they would accept a donation. The Republicans never seem to learn. The election of 2010 and its message seems to have fallen on ears that do not hear.
ag8tor

Here is a quote from Chambliss from Sunday, “Chambliss said the proposal the group is developing aims to reduce the effective tax rate across the board by making changes to the tax code. He did not specify what those changes entail.” Where is the part about raising taxes? It did say they were considering raising the SS retirement age for those under 35.
earlgrey

vote is on Wednesday now.

Fincher — undecided. I am not in Fincher’s district but as a TN GOP volunteer, I did a lot of GOTV calls for him so I felt like I was entitled to call him as well. I am not sure that it carries as much weight when you don’t live in the district.
rivahmitch

If House Republicans refuse to act to eliminate Obamacare and curtail the growing debt and spending( a .02% is NOT curtailing spending), their party is dead in the next election, no third chances, no support at all… At that point, the only workable solution moves from ballots to bullets and everyone will lose.
http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

The link is here. The key part is this:

We don’t believe in raising taxes.

But let me tell you, Chris — this is such a massive problem. As Senator McConnell just stated, a $14 trillion debt, that if we don’t get our arms around it now, and then we’re going to become a second tier nation. And we cannot allow that to happen.

So, it’s imperative that we put everything on the table for discussion.

“Everything on the table for discussion” following that “but” clearly means he is open to considering tax increases.
Kentucky Scott

a secret. I called yesterday … staff is clueless. I called today … staff is clueless. They think he “might ” have personally decided his position but not announcing it.. Glad to see him exhibiting the backbone of a jellyfish. Starting to think he is just another tool of the leadership and needs a primary opponent next year.
http://www.itsaboutliberty.com IronDioPriest

They will not be given another opportunity to rein in government, reduce our debt, and return to constitutional principles.

Thus, the GOP’s last chance is likely America’s last chance. These pukes will sacrifice American prosperity, power, influence, and credibility, because they do not possess the testicles to fight for their own country.
dajeeps

Means that they cut more on an annualized basis than the previous bill (HR1 I think) that would have funded government through the end of the year. Of course the $61B really is just chump change compared to the size of the problem.

And of course revenue can be raised without raising taxes on those who already pay something. There are a mixture of ways to do that. One would be to get this economy moving to create more taxpayers than we currently have and cut the losses that are being reported, and another would be to expand the tax base by leveling out the extreme lopsidedness of the progressive income tax. Are we not for doing either of those?

I really don’t see a problem with them with the exception that they do not fundamentally change the paradigm of the centralized administrative state – which I view to be the root of nearly all that ails us.

If that is really what we want, why can’t we just cut to the chase? We want the centraized administratve state to go, and various flavors of RINOS would rather negotiate and compromise with it, not even attempting to neuter it.

The important point these guys are missing is that the administrative state will collapse under its own weight on its own (may even be be past the point of no return, only time will tell). It does not have have a strong poition to negotiate from whether the average American or the politicians realize it or not. The only real choice we have at this point is to deal with its passing in an oderly way through our political system or we can do it in a disorderly and chaotic way, and take whatevere may come as result. Not much more really needs to be said.
mkozikowski

It should be made perfectly clear that we will replace “Republicans” with Conservatives if they do not play nice.
That this mantra will be held for ALL “Republicans” right up to Mr. Speaker of the House. We will no longer tolerate “weak kneed”, “spineless”, “wimps” representing U.S. in Government. That means that representatives such as Mr. Boehner my run the risk of being a one term “Speaker of the House” while his party remains dominant.

The Democrats did not pay these games last term. They stood strong, at the risk of losing their jobs, on their commitment.

The “Republicans” are standing weak, at the risk of losing their jobs.

GET SOME BACKBONE, Mr. Speaker, or perhaps we Conservatives will run you out of office.
acat

Reagan won. Twice. And within a decade, D.C. looked about the same as it ever did.

The Contract with America won, more or less. Clinton flinched. And, within a decade, D.C. looked the same as it ever did.

That, I think, is what the RINOs are counting on… that is, they’re not counting on conservatives staying in “activist” mode long-term…. and historically speaking, they’ve got a point.

Whatever shall we do to change their minds? (hint: Cold Warrior has the answer)

Mew
http://www.itsaboutliberty.com IronDioPriest

…either for the GOP, nor for the United States.

And I agree, Cold Warrior has the answer.
lakecrazy

I called each office, none of them know yet how they will vote, but I can call back after the vote and they will know then… I believe this is an unacceptable answer.
bk

The 3-week CR kicks the can until the first week of April, which is just about the time Geithner has said the debt ceiling will be reached. So there’s no way that the Congress will be able to separate the two just because of the timing it seems to me.

Maybe linking them together is a good thing, since perhaps it gives the GOP more leverage on the off chance they decide to try to use it. Who knows? But it does seem the GOP is nervous about a shutdown and will cave as needed to avoid it.

My thinking is that the Dems are perfectly happy with no budget and maintaining as much of the status quo as possible. After all, they placed zero priority on passing a budget when they could have passed any budget they wanted, so the GOP should take it to them as much as possible. There wasn’t this huge turnover in the House last fall for people wanting to maintain the status quo.
ATLconservative

Or am I missing the sarcasm? Are you sure that wasn’t Pelosi’s office?
ATLconservative

I wonder if Leadership has considered just how effective some Tea Party protests would be now that they’re back in power…

But who will organize these? I seem to recall some quote that bounced around here for awhile; something about cavalry and waiting for them?
lakecrazy

One office said they would call me after the vote to let me know, one office said I could check back after the vote and the other just said he was still weighing it all out. NONE of the three “knows how he (they) will vote”. I told each of them to vote no, that I follow their votes and would not need to call back to find out how they voted. I am not happy with this at all.
ATLconservative
marty

Well said.
AceInTX

and Clinton with 60% approval ratings a year later…

those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it…

the story of 1995 is that the Republicrat establishment made a lot of noise then about de-funding the left, eliminating funding of the National Endowment of the Arts, PBS, NPR, and Planned Parenthood…and when the time came to put up or shut up…they were rolled…we still have all of the above programs. Clinton was reelected, and ended his presidency with approval ratings in the 50 to 60% range…

There is nothing new here…and that’s what is so infuriating…nothing changes from one decade to the next…Republicans play defense…the Democrats play offense and the ball is always advanced to the left…and never to the right…

EVEN when we have the great majority of the country with us…they compromise and collude with the Dems to either advance the ball for the Dems…or to protect Dem gains in the end.
http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com pdigaudio

Thanks for highlighting that part. I missed it the first time. I only caught the statement that he was looking to increase revenue, which as we all know Reagan did by reducing tax rates.

Clearly the RINOs are willing to raise taxes.
http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com pdigaudio

It’s de ja vu all over again.

This is 1995. GOP squishes have the mandate to do what they were put in power to do but refuse to do it. I am looking at you, John Boehner. I am looking at you, Eric Cantor. Both major Epic FAILs because they are willing to go along to get along.

Next year, we’ll get Mitt Romney as the nominee because that’s who the blueblood countryclubber GOP Judge Smails crowd wants, along with another nice guy and no one will take the fight to the Street Thug in Chief, who will become El Presidente for Life.

No way he leaves after his constitutional term limits, by the way. No way.
http://whattoreadtoday.blogspot.com/ Paula

I just called and was told he’s still evaluating it as the CR is still changing and amendments are being added. I am hoping he will do the right thing, as his campaign was based on a platform of cutting spending. It would be very disappointing to see him do what he’s told by the GOP leadership instead of keeping his promises to his constituents.

Contact Rep. Jim Renacci:

Washington, DC
Phone: (202) 225-3876
Fax: (202) 225-3059

Canton
Phone: (330)489-4414
Fax: 330-493-9265
YnotNOW

The aide for Mike Coffman (R-CO-6) on the phone said that he understood my opposition to the 3-week CR, but that Coffman was voting for it, with the “assurance” from House leadership that this would be the “last” one.
I noted my disappointment, and his failure to stand with the Republican Study Committee, and my intent to keep a close eye on this one.
YnotNOW

The aide for Mike Coffman (R-CO-6) on the phone said that he understood my opposition to the 3-week CR, but that Coffman was voting for it, with the “assurance” from House leadership that this would be the “last” one.
I noted my disappointment, and his failure to stand with the Republican Study Committee, and my intent to keep a close eye on this one.
mjkoenig7

I went down Erick’s list here – though I live in GA, and called 33 of these House Reps. The results:

Against – 7
For – 5
“Undecided,” i.e., spineless – 21

This is sickening and unacceptable. Congresswoman Ellmers’ aide (NC) actually told me that she was voting FOR the resolution because she had already voted to defund the $105BB for Obamacare in HR1, and felt that didn’t need to be revisited. What a crock. This male aide was a real jerk, I might add, with a condescending attitude.

If the Republicans cave on this, it’s time for a revolt. As Mark Levin has correctly stated – a vote FOR this continuing resolution is a vote FOR Obamacare.

Mark Koenig
Atlanta, GA
Common_Cents

Oh, its an exception.
Oh, we have a crisis.
Oh, its temporary.

BS.

Real character comes out not when things are going well, but when one is tested.

We are finding out quickly who stands where.
uselogic

from 1995. One.. a gaggle of high profile Republican governors who DO get it; who are fighting the good fight. Two… tea partiers. I’m hoping those are game changers.
uselogic

from 1995. One.. a gaggle of high profile Republican governors who DO get it; who are fighting the good fight. Two… tea partiers. I’m hoping those are game changers.
edeldoug

Trimming discretionary spending is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Our deficit is 1.6 TRILLION. Our Discretionary Spending is about 1.3 Trillion. If we ELIMINATE ALL Discretionary Spending and fund ONLY entitlements and interest on the debt, we’re STILL 300B in the hole! Entitlement Reform is our ONLY hope.
http://capitolhillcoffeehouse.com/index.php/article/936

Taking EVERY PENNY EARNED by those making 200K and above will only increase revenue by about 1 Trillion! We’d still be 600B in the hole. Entitlement Reform is our ONLY hope.
http://www.smallgovtimes.com/2011/03/the-uncomfortable-truth-%E2%80%93-we-can%E2%80%99t-soak-the-rich-enough/
AceInTX

I hope you’re right…that it will different somehow this time…but don’t underestimate the Ability of Beltway Republicans to fold with a winning hand and the other guys cards showing!
etlib

I think this is mostly because conservatives have things to do — making money, taking responsibility for themselves, making things others want, … Therefore, when the government gets off their back, they get on with it.

Liberals just want more government to supply their needs so they are constantly involved in the government whether in power or not. The bureaucracy is always going to be staffed by those who think government solves problems because they think that’s where they can do the most good.

I really don’t know how we avoid this.
josephmn

Obama will learn of it when he gets back from the golf course, Biden when he gets back from a foreign junket, and the congress when they are replaced by Arabs or Chinese.
http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

I sure don’t buy that this is a Last Chance for anything.
aesthete

If Germany post-Hitler got a second chance, it’s silly to assume that we can’t get one.
acat
http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

Like many of my colleagues in Congress I am frustrated that we have not been able to make more progress on spending cuts in a CR for the full year, but in my mind, a vote in favor of this CR is a vote for spending cuts of a magnitude many in this House have never seen. I could not vote against cutting wasteful government spending. It?s as simple?and as important?as that. I cannot pass up the opportunity to support good reforms that will work to better our country and cut spending.
acat

isn’t whether we’ll get a second chance. There’s always second chances… until you’re dead. (and, according to some, even then…)

The question this cat is asking is how much crap he’s going to have to slog through to get to the second chance.

Mew
http://www.itsaboutliberty.com IronDioPriest

Who said “end of the world”? Not me.

I’ll ask a question. Is it logical to assume that America the Beautiful will continue on in perpetuity with the normal ebb and flow of politics as usual, when we face fiscal malfeasance of the highest order, entitlement insolvency, economic insolvency, and both political parties invested in the status quo to the point where the opposition party cannot muster the courage to stand in the gap? Where in fact both political parties have extreme vested interest in that status quo? Where the voters have sent an undeniable signal to the opposition party, and that signal can apparently only be digested and manifested through the filters of a sluggish and unresponsive party establishment that shows no political will to implement the radical action necessary to undo the Leftist mess?

I do not believe that the republic – or the Republican party – can survive national bankruptcy and the full implementation and entrenchment of ObamaCare and the entire Leftist agenda that would be wrought with 8 full years of an Obama presidency and a weakened GOP presence in the legislature in ’12. Remember that Supreme Court justices will in all likelihood be appointed after 2012. That should daunt any conservative with a breath of life in their lungs.

If the GOP is not understanding the grave nature of the existential threat to our nation, I see little hope. And thus, if they fail to understand – as it appears they do – I see little hope that voters will reward them with further victory in 2012 if they fail now to do whatever is in their power to do, and then some.

You may call that “mumbo-jumbo” if you’d like. But that’s rather dismissive language.
http://www.itsaboutliberty.com IronDioPriest

Please think about what you’re saying. At what cost, second chance?
bk
REPUBLICAN: 186 Y / 54 N
DEMOCRATIC: 85 Y / 104 N / 3 NV
TOTALS: 271 Y / 158 N / 3 NV

Here are the Rs who voted nay:
1. Akin
2. Amash
3. Bachmann
4. Bartlett
5. Barton (TX)
6. Benishek
7. Burton (IN)
8. Campbell
9. Chabot
10. Chaffetz
11. Duncan (SC)
12. Flake
13. Fleming
14. Franks (AZ)
15. Garrett
16. Gingrey (GA)
17. Gohmert
18. Gowdy
19. Graves (GA)
20. Hall
21. Harris
22. Heller
23. Huelskamp
24. Huizenga (MI)
25. Johnson (IL)
26. Jones
27. Jordan
28. King (IA)
29. Labrador
30. Lamborn
31. Landry
32. Long
33. Mack
34. McCotter
35. Mulvaney
36. Paul
37. Pearce
38. Pence
39. Pitts
40. Poe (TX)
41. Rehberg
42. Rigell
43. Ross (FL)
44. Schmidt
45. Smith (NJ)
46. Southerland
47. Stearns
48. Stutzman
49. Sullivan
50. Tipton
51. Walberg
52. Walsh (IL)
53. West
54. Wilson (SC)
bk
Diogenes314

If you recall the House was set to double down on budget cutting the next year but was kneecaped by the Senate becuse Dole wanted to preserve his ‘electability’. Not only do we not have a frontrunner for the nomination running the Senate this time, but we have the new media and the TEA party to equalize the MSM and nearly a 2-1 advantage in Senators running for re-election.

The real date when the 90s Congress went to hell was afer the 1998 elections when Gingrich was jettisoned in favor of Hastert/DeLay who decided that maintaining power was more important than issues.
Diogenes314

Not the leadership or party as a whole.

Well, let me just say we’re joined on my side in these discussions by Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho who just been designated by “National Journal” as three of the most, if not the most conservative members of the United States Senate. We don’t believe in raising taxes.

But let me tell you, Chris — this is such a massive problem. As Senator McConnell just stated, a $14 trillion debt, that if we don’t get our arms around it now, and then we’re going to become a second tier nation. And we cannot allow that to happen.

So, it’s imperative that we put everything on the table for discussion. I don’t know where we are going to wind up. We’re not there yet.

But if you look at the debt commission report, you have to address spending. We have to reduce spending in a major way. You’ve got to address entitlements. We’ve got to reform entitlements in a major way.

And you’ve got to look at revenue and reform our complicated tax code in a major way. And when you do that, everybody does have that skin in the game and everybody gets their score just a little bit.

As far as the ‘tax increaes’ being considered by the gang of three…

CHAMBLISS: Well, we can increase revenues without increasing taxes, per se, Chris. And as a matter of fact, that our proposal does is to reduce the effective and direct tax rates all the way across the board. And we do that by making a significant reform in the tax code. And every time, we’ve made a significant reform in the tax code, whether it was under Reagan in ’86 or Bush in 2001, what we’ve seen is reduction in rates and increase in revenue.

WALLACE: What you’re basically talking about is doing away with about $1 trillion in deductions that are currently in the tax system. But Grover Norquist, head of the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, says what you’re talking about means that you’re still breaking your pledge — and he’s obviously going to hold this against all Republicans who support it — breaking your pledge not to raise taxes.

Nice creative editing though.
Diogenes314

It is quite a streatch to get to…

House Leaders and Senate Leaders want to drag out the continuing resolution so it can be wrapped into the debt ceiling debate. They think doing so would shut up conservatives and stop all the silly nonsense about cutting spending in a meaningful way

A more likely solution is that they might possibly be using leverage against the Democrats rather than the ‘real conservatives’ that allegedly frighten them so much.
runner12

I was worried he might be co-opted by the establishment and this wrong step in voting for the CR shows that he has taken a step in that direction.

The irony is that the only Rep from OK to vote against it is Sullivan, not necessarily known for fiscal discipline. Go figure.
AceInTX

belly dragging across the floor, piss dribbling behavior of House and Senate Republican leaders?

this is so shameful it’s painful to watch these jack wagons belittle, beclown, and debase themselves before a president and Senate Majority Leader who lead the Democrat Party to the worse political shellacking in 70 plus years!

Look…I’m well known for being able to find the cloud in every silver lining…but come on…someone please show me where I’m wrong and give me a thread to hold on to for Pete’s sake
rightwingmom52

when not a darn Republican from Alabama or Tennessee voted nay and Steve Cohen, the nutcase from Memphis, did.
Diogenes314

It seems the RS consensus is that the GOP leadership is not only uniformly craven but unable to understand the differences between then and now, even though it is obvious and has been laid out here and everywhere else ad nauseum. Some here wil settle for nothing short of Boener getting up on the podium, cussing out The Empty Suit and declaring my way or the highway. Of course it is just possible that the leadership is giving the Jackass Party enough rope to hang themselves. By putting forth two CRs in the face of Democrat mendacity, they are demonstrating when the shutdown occurs who the guilty are. It isn’t enough to be in the right you must also be seen as being in the right. Personally I don’t know for sure, but until it is proven one way or the other, I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt, if not for being serious about cutting spending at least not being stupid enough to think they can get away with going the uniter, not a divider route without seious consequences.
AceInTX

and you leave out the issue at hand here that these dunderheads are allowing Reid to maneuver them into a no win situation by combining the budget with the debt ceiling increase, (or worse…they are out right colluding with the Democrats to stifle conservatives)…

And something else that’s not been completely fleshed out here…we’re still talking about the 2010 budget at a time when they should be working on passing the 2011 budget…the Dems are driving the bus because of Republican leadership foolishness, fecklessness, naiveteor outright collusion in a direction guaranteed to demoralize the coalition that won the 2010 elections…we won’t be able to keep up the momentum we had/have forever while Reid is able to force the Republican Leadership into compromising the issues that fueled that uprising…
AceInTX

we won?t be able to keep up the momentum we had/have forever while Reid is able to force the Republican Leadership into compromising the issues that fueled that uprising because they are afraid to fight…are afraid of what the MSM will say about them…or because they see deal making at the expense of the 2010 coalition as a cynical means to consolidate their power at the top of a crumbling party infrastructure as the country descends into inexorable decline.

We need to call their cowardice for what it is and we need to call the cowards at the top of this circus what they are!
Diogenes314

He certainly isn’t forcing anything. The GOP is giving him a chance to deal with it, if the Dems are still playing games when the debt ceiling comes up, then the GOP needs to just say last years budget first, put up or shut up. Resubmit the original bill and make it the only buisness of the Senate till it passes. Let the Dems shut down the governmnet and delay the debt ceiling vote as well.

One thing I agree with-this is all just a distraction. It needs to be submitted by the House and then they just move on to entitlement reform. THEN the 2011 budget.
AceInTX

I agree with everything else you say here…but I won’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen….

Our leadership are so scared of the word “SHUT DOWN” that they’ll do anything the opposition wants to avoid the mere mention of the word. All Reid and the boys need to do to get anything they want is threaten a shut down and our guys go into fits of apoplexy and give him anything he wants…

these guys have got to get a hold of themselves…control their bladders, take command and lead in a manner befitting their high station…or they will lose all credibility, all the hard fought momentum of the November elections, and eventually all the hard won gains those elections gave us.

Americans can’t stand a coward…and that’s what we have in our leadership…and their cowardice is on full frontal display before our very eyes
Diogenes314

Our leadership are so scared of the word ?SHUT DOWN? that they?ll do anything the opposition wants to avoid the mere mention of the word.

I just haven’t seen any evidence of this being the case. I’ve seen it claimed ad nauseum here and elsewhere, but it is equally possible that they have made a strategic decision to let the Senate be the one who does the shutting down-which I would agree with.
AceInTX

I really don’t know what more proof you need…

Now reports are that the party bosses are putting out attacks on Conservatives who insist on cutting 100 Billion Dollars out of an anual budget deficit of over one thousand six hundred Billion Dollars because I guess those cuts are just too hard for them to consider

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