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Tea Party – Communications 101

By: politicalwoman (Diary)  |  July 28th, 2011 at 12:04 PM  | 

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With regard to my just published post on Republicans, I found my communicator:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-the-tea-party-is-unyielding-on-the-debt-ceiling/2011/07/27/gIQAGvEVdI_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

But the question remains, at what cost?  Mr. Judson states:  “The left has accused the Tea Party of wanting America to default on its debt obligations. Nothing could be further from the truth.”  I believe that, so do you.  But unfortunately, the Senate and Presidency do not belong to members of the fiscal sanity party.  So we’re at the point of brinksmanship, who will blink first, and “chicken” all combined.   Hold out as long as possible.  Plot the best strategy and tactics, but in the end, I’ll keep repeating the word, until I can’t repeat it anymore:  2012.

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  • avgjo

    When Boehner and the GOP caved on the CR, we were told that the debt ceiling and 2012 budget would be the ‘real fight’. Now they’ve caved on the debt ceiling; I notice that donkey Boehner is not even trying to placate us by saying ’12 is the real fight.

    I told all the ‘smart kids’ who were parroting Boehner’s comments about the ‘real fight’ that if he caved on the CR, he’d cave on the debt ceiling and the 12 budget. They hemmed and hawed. But who was right? And I can tell you that if/when they win the other branches of government, they will cave.

    Our media heroes, like Rush and Hannity, couldn’t even do a decent interview of Boehner; last night, Hannity showed his partisan GOP colors with Michelle Malkin. (I’m partisan America, not a party. I always vote GOP, but I am a conservative first. And I will criticize and fight anyone in my own party who is undermining my country.) When she mentioned that this problem was contributed to by RINOs as much as dims, he went off blaming Obama; he almost seemed mad she dared say anything like she did. Couple that with the unwillingness of anyone in conservative media to call for a primary challenge until way after the damage is done, and the Boehner/Cantor/RINO
    complex have nothing to fear. The caving will continue. And America will be over.

    Now people like Hannity and even Rush are using the ‘two wrongs make a right’ argument. Everytime Boehner et al. screw up, they start throwing in ‘Obama doesn’t have a plan’.(I think Hannity gets starstruck with these goofs, and Rush is playing too much golf with Boehner.) I don’t care about Obama. I know what he is. Right now, I care about RINOs who are going to hand Obama a victory next year. And then we’re finished.

  • sarg01

    From the beginning, months ago, Boehner’s publicly stated position was that we would raise the debt ceiling in an amount equal to or less than the accompanied cuts.

    The Boehner plan of today does exactly that, and he even went so far as to make a last minute adjustment when CBO scored it down to ensure he honored the original principles.

    The reason he’s still fighting with Reid, despite very similar plans, is because Reid’s plan includes a debt ceiling lift bigger than he cuts — and thus would violate Boehner’s stated position.

  • avgjo

    worked out last time? He played tricks with the numbers and the real cuts were less than half a billion.

    Further, there is no guarantee that his brilliant commission will not raise taxes; put one Lugar, Snowe, Diaz-Balert or any such RINO on there and see your taxes magically go up. You see, genius didn’t even put in a 3/4 requirement or anything like that.

    And yes, he has caved. The plan is the cave.