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Time to get serious.

By: WmCraig (Diary)  |  December 1st, 2012 at 01:14 AM  | 

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The Obama administration is not negotiating in good faith. This comes as a surprise? The Obama administration sees everything, including the “fiscal cliff” negotiations in terms of a long term strategy to gain power and influence. There is no reason for Obama to negotiate. The only power that the Republicans have is to shut down all spending, in effect, shutting down the government. Power is not only what you have but what your opponent thinks you have. Obama thinks the Republicans have nothing. Is he wrong?

On the other hand, if the Republicans cave after this big fuss, Democrats run on protecting people from the Republicas who would have taxed everyone. If they stand firm, Republicans raised taxes to protect the rich, the Democrats propose tax cuts for the middle class and the Republicans are backed into a corner. Either the give Obama what he wants, AND credit for being the tax cut leader or they have to vote against tax cuts.

Obama isn’t isn’t kicking the can down the road, he is simply kicking Boehner’s butt. Representative Boehner looks like a deer in the headlights, a pee-wee quarterback facing an all pro NFL line. He looks like a puppet and Obama is pulling the strings. Obama is playing hard ball politics for control of the greatest nation on earth, and Boehner is playing small ball tidally winks. Boehner wants his constituents to like him, even if he gets nothing done, Obama wants to rule and rulers demand only respect. Two years from now we will be arguing to defend the Obama Tax Cuts. Not the Bush Tax cuts. How will that go over?

There is only one way that the Republicans can win this battle. And it means risking everything, because too many of us will punish our own representatives if they don’t do exactly as we say. Win or loose.

In every form of self defense one of the fundamental tactics is to use your opponents momentum against them. The tax hikes are going to go through, Boehner cannot stop that. What Boehner could do is use this against Obama, setting up Democrats for the next election.

Give Obama what ever he wants in tax hikes, anything he wants in TAX HIKES, but demand that money be used to restore Medicare Advantage. Demand that money be dedicated for school vouchers for “targeted” urban districts.

Now the conversation has changed. Now if Obama vetoes the bill because he  really does want  the “Obama Tax Cuts”, he will have stood against senior citizens and urban ethnic communities. If he signs it the Obama Tax Hike bill we get to champion the rights of the urban ethnic communities that supposedly are conservative at heart and the Seniors realize that the Republicans are looking out for them.

Stop letting Obama pull the strings, reach up, grab those strings and give them a yank. Use Obama’s momentum against him to draw him off guard and score a knock down for a change. I would rather we had to run on rolling back the Obama tax hikes that we reluctantly agreed to give him, then run against the Obama tax cuts. I wold rather we ran as champions for the free market education funding, I would rather we ran as protectors of the Seniors free market medicare solutions. But that assumes that there IS a Republican party in two years. Personally, right now, even though I am a registered Republican I can’t for the life of me figure out how the party will last that long.

 

WmCraig

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  • garfieldjl

    Republicans should actually do what Newt Gingrich has suggested have all the committees working on ways to cut costs, then pass bill after bill on things to cut cost, and let Harry Reid sit on it.
    Then when pressed about the fiscal cliff they should say we have X number of bills that would make government more efficient and cutting spending and that Harry Reid is sitting on all of them, and the press should ask Harry Reid why he’s being an obstructionist twit.

    • WmCraig

      I am looking down the road towards winning some elections. Not specifically this fiscal cliff. It is the fundamental approach that is wrong. Your ideas might work if the message could get out. But no one hears that “in the blue”. No one presses Republicans here. They stand around the water cooler, somebody pitches the talking points “those obstructionist republicans won’t compromise even if it ruins our jobs.” Then the watch to make sure everybody agrees forcefully. Just getting caught not being rabidly progressive is an economic death spiral for anyone in the Reagan Democrat/Independent demographic.

      Now if Boehner’s Republicans changed their approach our spokes people could get on TV for example advocating to save Medicare Advantage, why are the democrats paying for ObamaCare by stealing more choice from the retirees that built this country? Then maybe your message gets out. Get a few old folks who tend to congregate and talk about these things talking about the Democrats stealing from them and the Republicans protecting them, and you maybe win Florida. Get the Asians talking about how the Republicans are standing up for the family with real support not just rhetoric, and then maybe you win Pennsylvania. Then maybe someone at the water cooler looks around and doesn’t think they are all alone. Maybe we get the oval office and can implement effective change. But even then, the progressives have destroyed the Mid-Atlantic states, the North East states California and the Rust Belt states. The damage that has been done is going to take reconstruction, and that won’t “just happen” as long as we don’t have a ground game to counter the progressive organizing that is a cancer in these states.

  • norris

    I am suggesting that we have a head tax along with the income tax ten dollars per month for every tax filer . This is a move toward a flat tax that will raise as much money as Obama’s tax on the rich. When this is in place all tax hikes will be placed on the head tax not the income tax to the income tax. all cuts are to the income tax. When we all have some skin in the game government entitlement programs will seen in a new way. Democrats will be less likely to attach themselves to a tax hike.

    • WmCraig

      Understand this is coming to you from out of the blue states. Punishing those that have been left to the mercy of Democrat segregationists will not win you the oval office. I am talking about ways to win some of the blue states. First, changes in taxes, general “raising of economic opportunity” will not solve the issue. And really, without control of at least some of these blue states, you will never get the opportunity to advance your idea.

      Purple people are scared. If you stand up against the progressive machine you get financially lynched. Going against the progressive establishment is dangerous here in the blue. People have families, children, the people that we need can’t take the risk.

      What has to be recognized is Obama is playing for real, Holder is America’s Bull Conner and it never was Republicans holding the fire hoses or turning loose the dogs. If you want a chance to get your tax improvement ideas going you need some support from Out of the Blue.

      If we can’t “bend our principles” to give help and support to people who want to get out from under the jack heal boot of modern democrat segregationist oppression then there is no oval office in the future. No oval office, no change in taxes. Not your suggested change anyway
      WmCraig
      Observations from Out of the Blue