that Boehner lacks.
Posted on 04/18/2011 11:01:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Today Foxnews says DeMint states Filibuster Threatened...over raising Debt Limit...without a Balanced Budget Amendment!
(Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com ...
I thought Rand Paul was going to do it as well.
Mr. DeMint goes to Washington!...
Unfortunately when the RINOs cave, it will hurt even more...
(1) This is a smart move. If we’re going to make raising the debt ceiling our stand, then we need some concrete goal to rally around.
(2) A filibuster takes 41 senators. Do we really think there are 41 Republicans that will filibuster rasing the debt ceiling?
I don’t know what Foxnews saw to make their statement....although he was talking about needing something else he was voting NO.... on the video.
Doubtful...but it will put some Senators on the Record....especially on the Democratics Side.
(3) If a balanced budget amendment ever came to the floor of the senate, you know the Democrats would filibuster it.
that Boehner lacks.
Its hard to believe that Jim Demitt is from the same State as Leslie Graham.
Obama and Harry Reid have already said they voted not to RAISE THE DEBT TO HURT BUSH AND DIDN'T CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENNED TO THE COUNTRY.
Paul: I’ll raise the debt ceiling in exchange for a balanced-budget amendment
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posted at 9:30 am on April 18, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
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CNN’s Candy Crowley interviewed Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the debt-ceiling increase and the issues of government spending, and got perhaps a mild surprise for an answer. Yes, Paul will vote to raise the debt ceiling — but only in exchange for a balanced-budget amendment that ends deficit spending in Washington. Furthermore, Paul rejects the notion that a compromise on the budget involves raising taxes. A compromise means that conservatives will have to give up some defense spending as liberals give up some social-policy spending. Under no circumstances should Washington be trusted with even more money:
CROWLEY: I want to just add that the president has said in recent interviews that his vote against raising the debt ceiling was a political vote by a novice senator and he regrets it. But moving you along here, if — it just seems completely unlikely to me that there will be a vote for a constitutional balanced budget amendment. It seems unlikely to me that the president would agree to just use existing funds to pay off the interest on the debt. Seems to me that the only way this is going to go is that there will be the prediction (ph) of a bill to raise the debt ceiling. So if there is that, could you see yourself just voting no and letting it go at that, or would you stop at any means?
PAUL: I think we haven’t yet determined what our strategy will be, but I can tell you that the people of Kentucky elected me to shake things up. They didn’t elect me to raise the debt ceiling. They didn’t elect me to pass budgets that add — you know, the president’s budget will add $7 trillion to the debt if you believe his numbers. But whatever the numbers are, our government and our leaders are still adding enormous amounts of debt, heaping this burden on our kids and our grandkids. It is precisely why I was elected, to oppose this type of behavior.
CROWLEY: As you know, there is a so-called gang of six on the Senate side, three Republicans, three Democrats, trying to come together to come up with a bill that could pass, that would deal with the debt that you’re talking about here. Because the president has a plan, House Republicans have a
Sen. Paul: Both sides need to give in
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April 17th, 2011 10:33 AM ET
By: CNN Associate Producer Gabriella Schwarz
Washington (CNN) - To reach a deal in Congress over the national debt, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said both political parties need to make concessions, excluding higher tax rates.
“The compromise is for conservatives to admit that the military budget’s going to have to be cut,” Paul said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Liberals will have to compromise and will have to cut domestic welfare.”
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But the Tea Party favorite said he was undecided over whether to use the congressional tactic known as a filibuster to delay the vote.
“I think that’s yet to be determined,” Paul told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. “I think we haven’t yet determined what our strategy will be, but I can tell you that the people of Kentucky elected me to shake things up; they didn’t elect me to raise the debt ceiling.”
They will give him that. It is utterly pointless as it will never pass 2/3 of the states when 1/2 of those states are in dire need of a Federal bailout.
Do we really think there are 41 Republicans that will filibuster raising the debt ceiling?
I sure hope so.
Too bad DeMint won’t run for President. Hopefully he will be successful in knocking off Mitch McConnell and become majority leader in the Senate as soon as we get the majority back in 2012.
If the government votes to cut spending significantly, why does it matter if the debt ceiling is raised? The debt should start coming down immediately so the ceiling should never be reached.
“If the government votes to cut spending significantly, why does it matter if the debt ceiling is raised? The debt should start coming down immediately so the ceiling should never be reached.”
If you cut spending you don’t need to raise the debt ceiling.
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