Or go to jail...
Posted on 11/27/2009 2:06:35 AM PST by Puzzleman
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Mr. Obama's spending choices are dragging congressional Democrats into ugly electoral territory where many are likely to meet a brutal fate next fall.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
And on Capitol Hill they want to sell us Health Scare which will dip even deeper into the funny money.
I pissed at the spending when Nixon was in office. Today it is so out of control it is a nightmare.
Too bad Rove didn’t figure that out while Bush was President.
My concern is the retirement package ‘we’ pay them, even after they are voted out.
Unfortunately the Republicans have not proven they deserve to run both houses of Congress. As we know the Republican takeover in 1994 resulted in a spending orgy. I see no evidence the current Republican leadership (McConnell and Boehner) would work to lower federal spending, roll back entitlement programs, and reduce the size of the bureaucracy.
You are right,
There is little difference in the two parties.
They look after themselves and then maybe the country.
And both want to simply spend MY MONEY.
As I recall, it resulted in a balanced budget and Clinton tried to take credit for it.
I agree with you all, but the Republican Party is our only viable chance at changing it. You all are right. We aren’t going to do it with the current Republican leadership, who also spent like drunken sailors when they were in charge. That’s why we have to work toward winning primaries.
Tom Coburn is a pretty good Republican don’t you think? Well, he was NOT the party establishment pick, but we conservatives gave him the primary in spite of the opposition. That’s exactly what conservatives in other states need to do. Get conservatives into the primaries (on the Republican ticket) and work toward electing them!
Take the Democrats and liberal Republicans down!
Rove did figure out the spending thing as GWB’s adviser, he thought it was a good thing! Same old Rove thinking about Amnesty, SCourt nominees, FedReserve, Freddie/Fannie, etc....when all one cares about is re-election, then principles do not matter. See Newt G., Charley Crist, McCain, etc.
Saying that I would like to see true Conservatives running things. NO RINOS NO CROOKS
We need to get the crooks out. Frank, Dodd, Murtha just to name a few. . . . . . .
Charlie Crist is my first take down goal.
My current governor is a snake in the grass rino.
And to be honest I can not think of a single congress critter or senator from Florida I’d vote to retain.
They all think of themselves and re-election 1st.
My God, dont forget Pelosi
I would prefer to focus ALMOST exclusively on a candidate's character and philosophy of government. Matters of defense and duties specifically commanded by the Constitution are valid issues for debate. If a candidate attempts to stray to other issues he should be forced to explain how that issue fits into his philosophy and, more importantly, into the Constitution.
Here are some numbers:
US Deficit $1,433,517,600,000+
US Debt: 12,042,736,000,000 ($12 trillion)
US Unfunded Debt(off Books SS Medicare, Drugs) 106,294,935,000,000 ($106 trillion)
GDP 12,833,703,000
2007 IRS Personal Adjusted Gross Income $8,878,500,000,000
Assets (Small business, Corporate & Household) $74 trillion
Private debt $16.6 trillion ($14 trillion mortgage debt)
No. From 1995 through 1998, the Gingrich-Armey Republicans in the House hung tough on the budget and balanced it over Bill Clinton's systematic opposition. As with welfare reform, however, once it was a done deal Clinton tried to take credit.
Unfortunately, the congressional Republicans lost their focus after achieving welfare reform and a balanced budget. They tackled health care reform, and lost. They were scorched on impeachment. Once they were stalled on their reform agenda, and with the budget moving into surplue, they lapsed into incumbency protection and started spending.
The 2000 presidential election was fought in large part on how to "spend" the surplus, with the Democrats wanting to grow government and the Republicans wanting to cut taxes. We of course ended up doing both, despite the recession that was already clearly approaching by mid-2000, well prior to the election.
The journalist activists will attempt to fan one. It's a Democrat ploy. We need to target primamries to keep RINOs from even being nominated.
Does anyone that runs for political office really have character, honesty,integrity and political philosophy? Well, there may be a couple, but they do not wield the power to run our government.
The political pressure of the parties control government. The Democrat party seems to have more firm control.
We need regular common sense people (even with faults) that are willing to follow the Constitution and serve the public good (and not self-serving interests). We need people with mixture of private and public service (and not paid long term politicans). We need people that are willing to stand up to the established parties and lobbyists and do the right thing and reform the political parties.
We the public must demand the reform of both parties, otherwise a new party will emerge evenutally.
Most of all we must go back to our founding roots and make GOD part of our system of government.
I see there are some still beating that dead horse. Bush is gone so why keep bringing it up?
I am sure you are much more pleased with the Messiah and Dumbo than Bush and Cheney. And of course there is Michelle compared to Laura. Just lots to love with the change.
Or go to jail...
Agree 110%! I’ve grown tired of Beck’s 3rd party push - simply a method to insure more MAO-bama. Beck is either naive & stupid or, at worst, a rat in disguise to push this nonsense. I love his exposing the commies....even if it’s simply a cover.
Is this what you are advocating?
I do appreciate G Beck’s exposure of Commies and RINOS but I too do not overly trust him unlike those I do have trust in, Jim Rob, Andy Breitbart, Rush, Levin, Andy McCarthy, John Bolton, Jim Demint, Jack Cashill are a few I truly respect.
There is something messianic about GB, seems that like many recovered addicts, GB has become reactionary and/or mentally unstable....of course he is not @ Olbermann’s or Matthew/Pelosi’s level of instability, yet there may be a time that GB will go off the cliff... beware of so-called good intentions of such a one as GB.
Democrats and RINO’S need to be defeated!
No kidding. Moron could not figure out why Republicans stayed home the past few years - many because of the spending. However, I dont think many of us realized how Obama and the democraps would make Bush look like a piker, a rank amatuer, when it comes to spending.
You said it, “Big Government Party A” and “Big Government Party B.”(Was it Beck who coined those names?)
Both believe in big government and big taxes, if only for slightly different reasons.
That is my recollection also, engineered principally by John Kasich.
Anyway we need to do what the pole cat promised. . . . . . Drain the swamp. Get the slime O U T ! ! ! ! !NOW
We don't have a lot of time left. . . .
People tend to forget that Rove is a political consultant and strategist and not any sort of conservative theorist.
I agree, as a resident of east Pasco County, especially about dumping Suntan Charlie.
My congresswoman, Ginny Brown-Waite, is not bad but she has become less and less responsive to her constituents as she spends more and more time inside the Beltway.
Dodd is probably a goner but the other two are as obnoxious as they are because of the safety of their districts. Retirement is the only hope for getting rid on them and, since they’re both pushing 70, that could actually happen, though I’m not holding my breath.
We’ve been faked out by that a few times too, as apparently “conservative” candidates got our votes, won elections and went on to DC only to catch “Potomac fever” and let us down.
Good character and philosophy, yes, but we can never, ever let up the pressure on them if we succeed in getting them elected.
What you say has some validity but when you think about the loose spending under Bush and his weakness on the illegal immigration issue, it shouldn’t be hard to understand why some of us regard the D’s and R’s as two sides of the Big Government coin.
> the Republican takeover in 1994 resulted in a spending orgy
The Republican takeover in 94 resulted in a balanced budget, welfare reform, etc... at least for a few years until a Republican became President.
For most of Bush presidency, consumers had ready credt,also. The sea change is that now, consumers used to that no longer have it, therefore take debt much more seriously.
“My God, dont forget Pelosi “
Bingo. The power mad diva Pelosi wrote the porkulous in her office. Not to mention the house’s PelosiCare.
Paris Pelosi needs have have her big plane taken away.
Hopefully good and strong character could resist the Potomac virus. Group think?
Don't hold your breath....there're plans afoot to raise the retirement age. I'm sure all part of their plan.
I’m not aware of a congressional retirement age. Dingel is over 80, for example.
I’m just engaging in a little wishful thinking that maybe the ultra-lefties from safe districts would like to find something else to do besides looting the country in their golden years.
I’m a conservative living in New York, a rare breed, indeed. Yesterday, to celebrate Thanksgiving, I did something I should have done YEARS ago, and that is that I officially registered myself with the New York State Conservative Party. I was able to do so online and can only assume that this will automatically remove me from the registers of the Republican Party, although I can’t be certain. In any case, it does me proud to be able to tell people that I can’t stand democrats OR republicans, and now I have a big “C” next to my name to prove it.
We now have a democrat party that is a complete nightmare.......a republican party whose only argument is “We are not democrats”.........
HOLD CANDIDATES' FEET TO THE FIRE. It's in our hands to dictate the terms. PASS THE WORD To tea partiers, 9/12 marchers, pro-lifers; defense of marriage, 2nd amendment, anti ObamaCare, anti-amnesty, anti cap/trade conservatives.
These are the terms under which we conservatives permit candidates to earn our support:
(1) Your conservative group holds an official position within the campaign;
(2) Your group's issue is affirmed in the candidate's platform;
(3) Your group is in attendance at all campaign strategy meetings;
(4) Your group holds a paid job in the campaign;
(5) Your group holds a paid position in the winning candidate's elective office.
(6) The candidate must renounce RINOS and pukeneos before he/she gets conservative endorsement.
Republicans only seem to be against spending when the Democrats are in charge.
Rove wrote this article in the hear and now. I didn't “bring it up”. Rove is trying to influence Republicans with his “wisdom” and guide our policy in the future when in fact, Rove did exactly the opposite as he wrote here. Rove has a lot to do with why Democrats controlling both houses and the Presidency.
So my point is Rove is poison to conservatives in the hear and now.
Your knee-jerk response is lame.
I don’t disagree but it was just as wrong then as it is now. Rove doesn’t get a pass.
Dang...
Make that “here and now” in both places...
“I would prefer to focus ALMOST exclusively on a candidate’s character and philosophy of government.”
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Interesting take, monocle. :)
Seems to be a very common diesease. Spend too much time in D.C. and you go kookoo.
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