Posted on 02/13/2011 6:52:44 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Flex your muscle, Republicans!
The debt ceiling is the key to everything. Nothing will be done about spending until the GOP forces the ceiling to stay where it is.
I was really pleased and impressed when the House Republicans pushed through a flat-out obamacare repeal bill.
I honestly didn’t think they had the stones to be that honest. And, IIRC, it was the Tea Party representatives that got the ball rolling.
I have great hopes this might also happen — choke it and kill it like the tumor it is on Body Politic.
I'm in favor of it.
Now, reducing the debt limit would really ramp things up. We might want to take "wait and see" attitude on that particular step. Seriously.
“How do you REDUCE the debt limit?....”
One step at a time. If we can freeze the debt limit, that means balanced budgets. We can then, hopefully, work to pay the debt down.
But how do we make up for $1.5T? That’s more than twice what we spend on Social Security alone...and judging from a lot of the SCREAMERS on this site, even touching Social Security will create a revolution.
This will get interesting.
If the GOP refuses to approve ANY debt ceiling increase, ALL ramifications could be put on them. (The public is severly addicted to Fed spending and withdrawls can be painful.) By offering this ONE YEAR concession, the Dims can be made to go along with it.
What's in it for the Dims? $300-$400B in spending that they would not get to do if the GOP refused to increase the limit at all.
Bump it down 10 billion every year.
I just noted that the George Soroâs funded Moveon.org is advertising on Facebook for users to send messages to the Republican Senators and Congressmen to stop the defunding of NPR/PBS. The country could save a lot of money if we defunded these two biased and communist oriented leeches.
They really don’t have to DO anything.
If they simply DO NOTHING, the borrowing stops, period.......
Yep.
What you said BUMP.
I love it.
Don’t forget, there never was a FY2011 Budget Bill.
The sorry ass dems were too scared to put one on the table to be voted on or debated in public, because it was an election year. We’ve been operating off CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS, since FY2010.....
“Debt Ceiling Cat is Watching You Legislate”.
I heard something on Rush Limbaugh on Friday where the Pubs are only going to vote this week on cutting discretionary funding in Obamacare, not mandatory funding. Something to do with rules and the part that Nazi Pelosi put in about future Congresses not being allowed to cut funding to the bill.
Newsflash
Rep King said yesterday that the GOP ( Ryan ) budget has Obamacare funding in it.
We have been SCAMMED BY Bonehead, Cantor, Ryan and all the other K street scammers.
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