The house leadership is showing its true colors. Conservatives nor independents can trust the republican establishment whatsoever. The party continues to need weeding out…..

jay
@ChampionCitizen

because they have no morals and no shame. It is precisely the argument they used in 2006 and 2008 even though they have shown after 2 years of absolute control that they are indeed much, much worse then the GOP.

This vote tells us everything we need to know about the current Republican leadership. It needs to go. Bravo to all 54 Republicans who stood against this ill-conceived resolution. Shame on all those – including sadly, many freshmen – who voted for it.

It’s time now to begin planning for a financial collapse. Glenn Beck has it right, I’m afraid. With this sort of “leadership” we are doomed. Start protecting yourself financially NOW.

Shall we go through life on a series of C R’s? And we haven’t even touched Obamacare yet.
Meanwhile The Man himself is heading out to Rio with his muscle bound wife. What a guy !
He’s not a President, he’s a tourist. The media that created him at this point must be biting their nails and reaching for the Tums,

for Republicans who don’t follow through on their promises to voters. Or at least, what they told voters – whether or not they really meant it.

I’m sure they remember the ire directed at Dems ramming Obamacare down our throughts. Now the ire will be directed at them.

The Republican Party is dooming itself and our country. Who is worse, those who take liberty, or those with the power to defend it yet do nothing?

Freshman Rep Sandy Adams (FL-24) immediately put out a press release touting the fact they had followed-through on their promise to cut $100 Billion in spending.

Spinning spending cuts to the base… It was then I knew she wasn’t serious about cutting spending.

The problem is… how many more Freshmen in Congress are like her?

It is probably the best example of why professional politicians are not necessarily a good thing. Clearly the position you take in Washington DC has a corrosive effect on you as a representative and eventually you lose your way.

There may be a need to promote the “citizen politician” in the future as an antidote to this problem.

Unless and until they start the conversations with the idea of cutting at least $1 trillion of deficit spending, I can’t take any of them as being serious about addressing the issue. With a one year deficit projected to be $1.6 trillion, the supposed $0.1 trillion cut is nothing – let alone the actual republican proposal of $0.062 trillion and the even more dismal $0.006 trillion offered by the democrats.

About the only good thing I can say about the current republican proposal is that they are willing to give us the “sales tax” as a credit. The democrats option, isn’t even worth the penny you saw on the ground on your way into work.

The worst parts about all of this, is that even if they cut all of the federal spending back to a balanced budget, we will still be left with the current $14 trillion debt, no change in current federal tax rates, state governments that will complain about loss of funding (and wanting to raise tax rates), etc… in other words, it only solves one part of the problem.

But, it has to start somewhere…

You are starting to remind me more and more of the old Soviet platoon leaders who would stand immediately behind the front lines and shoot any of his own soldiers who didn’t charge the enemy.

You have built a solid, influential base of activism with this website. It would be a shame to squander your rapport by getting a reputation as the nattering, uber-purist pain in the *** for whom NOTHING is ever good enough or fast enough.

a “pain in the ***” to these republicans (aka career politicians) is because they’re part of the reason we can’t get out of the 14 TRILLION dollar hole that they helped dig over the years. The democrats didn’t do it by themselves. And we’re beginning to realize that they either have no clue how dire the situation is, or they don’t care.

And I would argue there’s a happy medium between those two profiles Leon describes. Indeed, choosing your “hill to die on” WISELY.

You fail to appreciate how far we’ve moved the debate. We now have substantial numbers of DEMOCRATS voting for CRs that represent bona-fide cuts in federal spending for the first time … ever. Have we forgotten how groundbreaking that was so quickly? A D.C. “cut” used to mean a smaller increase than planned. We’ve now disrupted that old order so that plain English means something.

Paul Ryan is readying a comprehensive approach to entitlement reform, which sort of reveals the silliness of your belittling the achieved cuts in the context of total federal spending. We’ve got Chuck Schumer (!) offering to use the Deficit Commission’s blueprint for entitlement reform as a starting point for negotiation, for crying out loud. And you seem to appreciate absolutely none of it. You want everything a week ago Thursday.

This is chess, not checkers. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself.

is a farce. Adopting their recommendations would among other diastrous effects, would destroy the military retirement system and thus the military itself. What person would into the service for a career that would put their life,limb and blood in harms for a career that would end twenty or thirty years, if they were not disabled or killed, and then have to wait until they were 60 years of age before they would be eligible to retire. We could always return to the unfair draft, however who would train them or lead them into battle when necessary? answer, aww guess.

get in the way of the CR? Can they stop it and actually address the issue of no monthly surplus in Federal Revenues for the last couple of years?

Rubio got interesting press from Politico regarding this issue. More power to whoever holds the line against the tsunami of debt and actually proves to be the leader the country needs at times like these.

I’m not familiar with your claims, so I can’t argue them with you.

But I can say as a general proposition, I’ve got no problem with saying to veterans who are retiring honorably and have no identifiable injuries, illnesses or disabilities, physical or psychological, that they need to wait until a reasonable age before they start drawing pensions. I yield to no one in my gratitude for their service, but in a time of needed austerity, I can’t see the case for paying lifetime retirement income to a guy who enlisted at 18, served 30 years, and isn’t yet even 50 years old. Covering them under Tri Care is fine, and grandfathering in those currently receiving a check is fine. But it’s reasonable to say that future, non-disabled retirees should wait until Social Security age for their pensions.