As someone once said, there is no statement so silly that some intellectual will embrace it.

What we need in Washington (and in our universities) is fewer intellectuals and more intelligence.

Please primary this loser weasel at the earliest possible date. Thank you!

BRILLIANT!!!

He’s Harry Ried’s B__ch thus my new name for him…Mitch the B__ch.

He’s a loathsome creature not even worthy of our contempt and should face the wrath of the conservative movement next time he’s up which won’t be soon enough for me

of course…we never get to the dreamy party because we have to set the stage for the next brilliant strategy from Mitch the B__ch and the geniuses advising him…

but who knows…maybe you’ll finally be right this time…

but then again…

you probably won’t!!!

If you have not called or e-mailed your representatives in Congress, it is time. We sent them there last November to stop President Obama at all costs – now and not next year.

We must hold the line here, and let President Obama decide whether or not the United States wil default while he has the checkbook to the pay the current interest on the debt, and social securiiy. If we cannot hold the line now, then when and how can we save this country? A debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion is unacceptable and maddening. The 101st Airborne Division held the line at Bastogne. We must hold the line now, until relieved in 2012 with a new President.

“This country is broke and we cannot spend money on this kind of stuff,” said Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition, which drew attention to the report as part of a six-month investigation into NIH grants for examples of “institutional waste.”

“We’re spending money on wacky stuff,” Lafferty said.

Lafferty’s group drew attention to several other studies Monday that it claimed were “bizarre” in the current fiscal climate. Among them was one that asked individuals to “mail in their toenails” to measure “toenail nicotine,” according to the values coalition.

“The president has said he’s going to hunt down waste. Well, I’m going to give it to him on a platter,” Lafferty said.

Anything with tax increases are DOA in the House.

It doesnt matter what they recommend, nothing will be done with Obama in the WH, because nothing he will accept will be acceptable to 220+ House Republicans. Beohner has at least been consistent there. So it doesnt matter what ‘deal’ is cooked up. it won’t sell.

In my opinion, the Senate gasbags are just creating another Simpson-Bowles-like destined-for-round-file proposal. The mischeif here is not that it might get passed, but that ONCE AGAIN we are letting the President off the hook and letting him play ‘present’ without any plan at all. Good policy, since whatever he proposes will be awful, but bad politics, if the whole point was to get the President on the hook for this.

Senator Tom Coburn, on the other hand, has offered in my mind the real game-changer proposal. Why?
Because we have used Ryan as the GOP ‘baseline’ of ‘what can we save’ and Coburn is now upping the ante and saying: “Look, we can cut the deficit by $9 trillion over 10 years.” It puts to shame the dishwater $1.5trillion in ‘cuts’ from Biden talks, and it trump Ryan in terms of deficit reduction. I would also like to see the RSC and Rand Paul budget ideas get more play, as both go more vigorously after the discretionary spending.

If Coburn can get significant Senate GOP support for his approach, it could be a good counterpart to the House backing for the Ryan roadmap.

What McConnell has done is to display that prior experiences and outcomes mean nothing to him. He has now given Democrats a cudgel, which they will use to articulate, ad nauseam about the “extremists” in our party and how they are not serious or surreptitiously uncaring about the debt situation- or was that his intent?

McConnell has demonstrated for them what is otherwise a fairly united front has a weak spot in its armor; his personal vanity.

Notice the press has now taken up “McConnell’s Plan on which “he and Reid agree” as a headline, as proof. This confuses the outcome which was otherwise running in favor of Republicans very well articulated plans- as opposed to none from the President or Democrats.

This is absolutely one of the most contra-intellectual political moves I have ever seen.

They are betting that if they can kill the threat of a GOP takeover by the Tea Party the PowerCrats of both current parties can retain office and can preside over the demise of the Late, Great USA.

After all in WDC the have the resources to protect their worthless hides from being displayed on the razor wire fences they will erect to keep the riff-raff out.

Folks, this whole thing is out of control and it is about to get real ugly.

The best hope that our country has to alter this pattern of behavior is to make sure that we get fiscal conservatives elected into office in 2012.

The outcome on this point is dependent on our actions, first and foremost, not the actions of those in Congress. If we can’t step up, stay engaged, and exercise our right to vote, then we have no one but ourselves to blame.

If we do stay engaged and exercise our right to vote, then we have a chance of succeeding, which could turn things around for all us.

That this is just one of those times when we have to be proactive rather than reactive, and we have to “go for the gold” so to speak DESPITE the foolishness and idiocy that is being displayed by some of those currently in Congress.

There is only so much $$ to SCF, Heritage, American Majority can do. I am at a loss. With the Republicans betrayal it will be even more difficult to recruit independent voters to vote Republican or vote at all.

However, when it comes to considering the impact that is going to have on our economy…I’m going to say my piece, rant or not.

For months on end, consumers have been cautious in regards to how they spend their disposable income. Just cautious. It hasn’t reached “fearful” yet. Couple that caution with the unemployment rate and rising prices, and it’s caused our economy to flatline on the demand side. We need to stay out of the “fearful” range as much as possible, but decisions like this are more likely to push us into that range.

The left is going ga-ga over this idea that the glory days of free-market capitalism are now gone, and that the only way we will see growth and development in our economy is via managed capitalism methods resulting from government intervention. This is what they want to happen, so they are projecting that the free-market enterprise system is now collapsing for the purpose of justifying both government intervention and additional tax increases to support these government intervention efforts.

But these idiots know absolutely nothing at all about what it takes to establish or maintain a successful business venture. All their managed capitalism ideas are pie-in-the-sky grand schemes, with products/services that are mandated to the general public (taking away from consumer disposable income) supposedly for the purpose of generating jobs.

Yet to make sure that the demand for their choice of products/services might be sustained, they put regulations into place that limit or eliminate competition (which kill jobs and lowers the disposable income across our society as a whole).

Then to get the demand for their products/services up to the sustainable level they want to see happen, they subsidize either purchase or provision of the product/service or both, which does nothing more than generate a bunch of artificially-inflated bubbles across our economy as a whole.

Idiots and fools! If they’d pull back on the regulatory measures, keep tax increases on the back burner, let the economy stabilize, and give the American public a chance to determine where true demand for products/services actually exists, we could probably find a way to turn things around. But, oh, no, in their infinite wisdom and superior intelligence, they have to keeping monkeying around with it, don’t they?

I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I’m now beginning to support those who have been presenting the idea that we need to reestablish supply-and-demand chains at the local level, separate from the influence of government intervention as much as possible.