So Harry Reid finally came up with a plan and John Boehner will reveal his tomorrow. Details. The Reid plan consists of: $2.7 raise in the debt ceiling with matching spending cuts. These spending cuts are likely on the back end of the package and are structured in a way to the George Mitchell trap that he pulled on Bush 41. No tax increases Plan | Read More »
Maybe I might get some disagreeing comments with this diary. Ahead of time, let me tell you, I understand. I have been wanting the GOP House to be on offense this whole time. They have both disappointed me and made me happy during this momentous fight. Where Things Stand Since Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate, in pure gutless fashion, voted to table CCB and | Read More »
“Always take the offensive. Never dig in.” — George S. Patton Seeing Erick’s last two posts just ticked me off in regards to Boehner. Feel free to weigh in. Boehner at least in the public light has been standing strong very well. Tom Coburn really screwed up. He presents a stellar “Back in Black”, 9 trillion dollars in spending cuts and then the next day | Read More »
Polls had Barack Obama and John McCain dead even in September 2008 in the race for the White House. Oil prices were sky high, causing the vast majority of paycheck-to-paycheck living Americans to fall behind on their house payments of their very overinflated mortgages. The Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae bubble began to explode. Credit markets began to freeze up because of the scale of the exposure | Read More »
Per The Hill: Tea Party conservatives are pushing John Boehner to bring the Full Faith and Credit Act to the floor which would force payment to Social Security recipients and the military in case of default. (H/T Ace) Per Dick Morris, OUCH! The House Republicans can checkmate President Obama by passing two one-house bills in the coming week: 1) Allow a conditional increase in the | Read More »
(H/T Carolina — The vote in the Senate on CCB is scheduled for Saturday according to Freedom Works. Great news!) Refuse to consider any Senate bill until CCB is voted on in the Senate. The most hilarious article of the day: Reid is waiting for John Boehner to tell him the path forward. Hello, he already told you with the bill he passed. Now vote | Read More »
234-190 Some money quotes: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D.-Tex.) called it the “tap dance losers’ club” law, describing the no-tax proposal as “breathtakingly arrogant.” Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Tex.) said both parties are to blame for the massive deficit. “The reason we don’t cut spending, is one side loves entitlements, and the other side loves war,” Paul said.“Only in this room is it a disaster to | Read More »
One side: “Let’s turn things around.” Other side: “Things will turn around.” One side presents plans. The other side criticizes those plans and offers none of their own. One side presents responsible budgets The other side presents no budgets….well, their president presented one and it didn’t get a single vote. One side says “We need to tackle this now.” and is willing to risk their | Read More »
Unfathomable. Indefensible. HUH?!!?! It is times like this that makes a conservative think with astonishment “Can our current leaders in Congress be any more calloused anymore by the norm of Washington politics?” Personally, I hope Erick is wrong. However, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the GOP again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The McConnell plan is no fall back plan. It is | Read More »
Before walking out of the room, Cantor said, the president told him: “Eric, don’t call my bluff. I’m going to the American people with this.” Thanks for the idea. Champ, you’re the greatest. You’ve had your three pressers with your adoring journalists, now it is time for the GOP to take the case to the American people. For the time being, that might be hard | Read More »
Promoted from diaries by Bill Amazing how the Democratic majority Senate hasn’t passed a budget in over two years. Wait a minute, they haven’t even presented one. They just vote down whatever budget comes out of the House and don’t present any alternative to avoid taking tough votes because there are 23 Democratic senators up for re-election in 2012. And now suddenly President Obama is | Read More »
There is a disturbance in the force of the GOP establishment. Over the last few months I haven’t seen one inkling or belief that Michelle Bachmann would be a serious contender, let alone win the GOP nomination if she were ever to make a run for President. After the most recent debate, Congresswoman Bachmann left the GOP establishment and the political punditry astonished and bewildered. | Read More »
Paul Ryan is dipping his toe a bit more in the pool of a potential POTUS run: On Thursday evening, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan said yet again that he is not considering a run for the GOP presidential nomination. But when asked by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto whether he would change course from past rejections of a presidential bid, Ryan hesitated before saying, “Look, I | Read More »
The heck with a Romney-Cain ticket. Some interesting things have been happening in the last week. Paul Ryan apparently or possibly has come off his Shermanesque “No” position, saying he doesn’t intend to run for the presidency right now. I have been wanting this guy to run for presidency since 2010. Now Eric Cantor is throwing his support behind a Ryan candidacy. You have to | Read More »
From Ace via the National Review. The point is, though, that based on unrealistic scenarios (Doc Fix repealed, and Medicare starts paying Medicare doctors 30% less immediately, etc.), Medicare goes bankrupt in 2024. But realistically, it will go bankrupt in eight years or something like that. And what happens then? Immediate, automatic cuts in payments made. Seniors need to wake the hell up. In eight | Read More »
First Romney defending Romneycare, now Newt calls Paul Ryan “radical” for wanting to do something that is long overdue and would put our country back on a route to solvency: In another surprising move, Gingrich also reiterated his previous support for a “variation of the individual mandate” for health care. “I believe all of us — and this is going to be a big debate | Read More »
Unless things in the economy drastically change, the public still is solidly behind getting Obamacare repealed and cutting Washington spending, he will be a one-term president. This is looking very likely that Barack Obama is in the last legs of his presidency. The last two weeks, and in particular this past one, has shown a freefall plunge in the president’s approval ratings that have coincided | Read More »
The only way we are going to get the cuts we want is to win the presidency and large majorities in the Senate in 2012. We were all upset yesterday by looking at the real numbers of this awful deal yesterday. $352 million in savings is but a drop in a huge bucket of deficit water. I couldn’t help but notice whom the writers that | Read More »
As a result of today’s news that the budget cuts were only $15 billion….or less: Mark Levin was spot on. This AP article is a coordinated devious trap set by the Democrats and the MSM to fool the American people and to discredit and exploit Speaker Boehner. The majority of congressmen in the U.S. Legislative branch are no longer public servants but tyrannical rulers obsessed | Read More »
Awhile back in March 2010, Paul Ryan was and still is my top choice for making a run at the presidency in 2012. It has become much more so with last night’s election regarding Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. The unions and the entire, dirty outside organizing groups like Organizing for America and Moveon.org threw everything they had in turning Wisconsin back to the unions’ will. Money, | Read More »
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