Posted on 12/12/2012 4:51:59 AM PST by LD Jackson
That’s interesting. The way elections go is no longer about misinformation or media bias. That’s now a given. The electorate is truly socialist and voting for what they want. The problem can’t be fixed through voting, save at a state level.
If we’re okay with socialism, that’s what we’re getting. If not, it’s going to take blood. We have lost the debate. Liberty is no longer on the negotiation table. If we want it, there needs to be an ultimatum. Congress isn’t going to secure it for us and there’s no reason to think they have any interest in our liberty. No. Socialism is here, the bill or rights is void. If we want it back, we will have to take it by force.
What I’m trying to say is we don’t need to get all worked up about debates in DC. We have no say in what happens there. We either need to get comfortable within socialism or take our liberty by force.
“Sadly, no. More Americans voted for a Democratic House of Representatives than voted for GOP candidatess. By about a million votes actually. It is only through gerrymandering that the Republicans kept such a strong majority in the House. Based on this election cycle, the public does not seem to be with us - at least at the national level. What passes for the American public these days is more and more dependent, more and more like Europe, and increasingly buys into leftist populism.”
If this is truly the case, I’m predicting that the Republicans are going to have a difficult time “holding their position” in the House in 2014.
They’ll have to claw and scrape just to retain their majority. If things go badly for the party nationally (and considering the way they’re going now, how could they get much worse?), the Pubbies might even lose the House in ‘14.
I realize this flies in the face of conventional wisdom (that being that the party of the president always loses seats in the midterms), but didn’t Obama’s re-election in November turn that “conventional wisdom” upside down, as well? (that being that no president presiding over an economy as abysmal as Obama’s had been re-elected in modern times.)
In the Divided America (land of the free.... phones), the old rules and truisms just don’t apply no mo’.
I disagree with your assessment of Coburn. He is certainly no fool. He is just trying to further the betterment of our country in the best way he sees possible.
I disagree. Coburn is no idiot. He just sees the inevitability of what we are facing. If you will take the time to read the entire interview on Politico, you will see he is not conceding that more revenue is needed. He just realizes that is the only way we are going to reach an agreement.
You’re probably right.
Balanced? This is the same silly agreement the Republicans have made before. The word 'then' implies taxes first, cut later, and the cuts never appear.
The budget jumped up $1T/year the last year of GWB, and has been kept there. Cut that first, and then the Republicans can talk about changing the tax profile.
The purpose of the demanded tax increase isn't to raise revenue, but to kill the private sector, and to force the Republicans into saying that it's the right thing to do.
Boehner and company might figure out that the game in DC is no longer patty-cake, but I fear it will be too late.
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