Congressional Republicans should let Dems own the spending cliff and re-learn the English language Before outlining what would be optimum tea partier conservative action by the House in response to the Obama/Reid-approved, “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012″, Senate fiscal cliff bill, passed less than three hours into A.D. 2013; let us get our New Year’s bearings straight. We now live at the bottom of | Read More »
Have conservative Republicans in the House the numbers and the courage to seize party leadership, play government shutdown/debt ceiling chicken with President Obama and speak debt cliff truth to entitlement seniors’ power? It took 23 months, but the historic 2010 tea partier-led GOP landslide finally paid off conservatives with the rejection of Speaker John Boehner’s surrender of upper income tax earners to the tender mercies of President | Read More »
Could 2013 see the first GOP tea partier ambulatory duck House of Representatives, and if so, how should it deal with a Lame Obama Duck President? Whew. Who knew that the Republican tea partier class of the 2010 landslide, after 23 months of impotence at the hands of their establishment “leadership” posing as Bob Dole-like tax collectors for the welfare state, were brewing for a Boehner-bruising as their last | Read More »
It is clear that the re-elected President Barack Obama will not sign a budget bill that advances the goals of non-defense spending cuts nor economic growth. As incredible as it may seem to many of us, he and most of his Democratic Party colleagues in Congress simply do not share those historically basic goals. The only concession he made to either of those goals in | Read More »
Still think President Barack Obama champions the middle class in their ongoing struggle to overcome the mess he inherited from Bush as he demands the raising of tax rates only on those earning over $250K/year? Well, it seems that the mess his re-election bequeathed has him threatening to raise taxes on middle class homeowners. In response to a question on Twitter asking if homeowner | Read More »
Fiscal cliff fiction shouldn’t spook Republicans into abandoning the tax ties that bind Since the shock of the electoral re-hiring of a failed Democratic Party president and senate majority, we first toyed with maximizing blame avoidance for the inevitable market crisis and double dip recession by simply abstaining from opposing Obama’s agenda. But when the hangover wore off we rejected that option for negotiations, so | Read More »
A responsible stance for elected conservatives over the next two months and the next two years Coming up with a responsible strategy for Congressional Republicans in the unique aftermath of the Election of 2012 has proven problematic to this shell-shocked tea partier. Yes, the ultimate result of the electorate’s choices was, technically, a return to the status quo of divided government; but one would search U.S. | Read More »
Calling President Obama and Speaker Boehner for safety net. If Lame Duck doesn’t break fall; after crash, dial 1-80O-bam-acare or an estate tax lawyer. America went over the fiscal cliff years ago I’ve never bungee jumped or sky dived. Heck, since that candy apple leapt out of me at age 12 on the downswing of the roller-coaster at the Piedmont Interstate Fair, I’ve settled for such thrills on the | Read More »
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