Posted on 04/18/2011 1:52:56 PM PDT by ColdOne
Throwing down the gauntlet, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint threatened Monday to block a vote in Congress on raising the U.S. debt ceiling unless he wins a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.
The filibuster threat comes a day after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner suggested Republican leaders had offered private assurances to the White House that they ultimately would vote to raise the $14.3 trillion ceiling, regardless of whether a deal is reached on long-term spending cuts.
Publicly, Republicans say they will demand spending cuts as a condition for supporting a hike in the debt ceiling. They stood by that claim following Geithner's comments, and DeMint took their demands a step further.
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Believe what they do. Not what they say.
demint have been a senator for so long yet I don’t recall him proposing an alternative budget like Rand Paul
And we all know that Turbo Tax Timmy would never, ever lie.
Do you mean Paul Ryan?
This week Sen. A and Sen. B will talk tough and make demands, thus getting face time and people fired up.
Next week it will be Sen. C and Sen D. and next week two more.
When the vote on the subject finally comes, there will be enough Sen’s to vote the subject down, At which Sen’s A-F go back on TV to give hope to the base.
When the next subject comes up, a different 6 will do the same with the same result. Lather, rinse, repeat.
When the election comes and nothing positive happened, all Sen’s go campaigning on how they fought for (insert subjet) along side 5 other “hardcorepatrioticconservative” GOP Senators.
Each do the same, blame the rest and so none are ever to blame.
Simple really.
Blah. Blah. Blah. Yadda. Yadda. Yadda. More talking the talk and we all know damn well they won’t walk the walk. We can count on the debt ceiling rising again and again and again...
Great minds ;)
“ultimately would vote to raise the $14.3 trillion ceiling, regardless of whether a deal is reached on long-term spending cuts”
Surely that cannot right. The Republicans caving without anything in return.
FIRE THEM ALL.
Remember that quote about ‘ruled by the first 5 names out of the phone book’ or whatever it was?
Perhaps its time for a “First 5 names’ campaign to elect exactly that.
Pretty friggin’ sad state of affairs.
For one thing, the proposed constitutional amendment has dubious value. It permits borrowing if the country is "at war," I think; it is probably as useful to bind Congress as the "enumerated power" of regulating commerce among the states.
Then there is the timeline disconnect between agreeing to borrow more money (immediate increase in public debt load, to satisfy Congress' urge to spend) and adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment; and then there is the, IMO very low, probability of the constitutional amendment being adopted at all.
He gave a great speech in rejecting TARP I (IIRC, it was TARP I), but his use of senatorial power here strikes me as, pardon my French, just bullshit.
i think california already has a balanced budget ammendment
The Republican Party has no balls; they won't stop the raising of the Debt Ceiling, nor will they stop the spending beyond the revenues.
Even Ryan's proposed spending cuts DO NOT STOP THE DEBT FROM RISING THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD COVERED....it merely slows the descent into debt.
The government is TOTALLY out of hand, spending to buy votes from Lobbyists and parasites; the American People are the victims, ALWAYS.
Don’t say it if you don’t mean it.
I’m so tired of the lies and empty pandering.
We all know the debt ceiling will be raised in the end.
Ain’t buying it - Gotta see that to believe that.........
Mad Dog Alert!
Old bonerhead is going to kick ass and take names! /sarc
Thanks Ernest.
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