Posted on 03/10/2011 12:54:52 AM PST by DARCPRYNCE
The dems want Boehner and the new Republican House majority to spend the next two years doing banzai charges against Social Security and Medicare. Does anyone here really think that is how we'll win the 2012 elections?
We face an opposition that intends to deny the inevitable right until the nation hurtles into bankruptcy, demogogue every effort at reform, and then use the crisis to massively raise taxes and socialize what is left of the economy. They are executing that strategy in a perfectly consistent way. About 20% of the country understands this; this is the hard-core conservative base, but we're not enough. Boehner is playing to win in 2012. So are the dems. All the current sound and fury about domestic discretionary spending is tactical; the end game is entitlement reform.
Really? I remember the Gingrich majorities in the 90's balancing the budget and reforming welfare, and then turning to health care reform. Clinton demogogued that relentlessly and used it as his springboard back in the polls and ultimately to reelection. I also remember George W. Bush taking on Social Security reform, only to be met with an avalanche of lies and an across the board democrat filibuster strategy in the Senate.
The Gingrich Republicans of the 90's and GWB in 2005-06 were substantively right, but they failed because, in the final analysis, we didn't have the votes. We have to try again. What tactical lessons do you draw from those defeats?
A psycho possessed by demons. Those photos are so creepy.
In the short term, it is a shame that Mike Pence is choosing to go for the IN governorship. He would be the PERFECT House Speaker. In the long run, he will be well positioned to be a great Presidential candidate, so it may pay dividends later. My only sadness is that we need national leadership NOW in the worst way.
My current tagline describes the main point of this article, I think.
DNC=RNC=McCain=Boehner=Obama
I do not know who is ‘really’ running things, but I don't think it is any of these guys.
They all act like a gaggle of ‘employees’ working together at a Kroger constantly worried about being reprimanded by upper management.
Not just him...the whole GOP is a joke. Conservatives no longer have representation.
the land? no, but as an incorporated state of Mexico, you may be allowed to retain your name...no on second thought I think you will be renamed...
Texas, as you knew it is already gone, care to go over birth rates and population forecasts...didn’t think so...
The Big Boo
when he shut out tea party electees from any leadership positions, he effectively silenced their power.
These guys all need to be sent packing...he can cry me a river as he heads back home.
When in the heat of battle, you find your army in full retreat, you must do 2 things:
First, you must stop the retreat and hold the line. Then, you can muster your forces for a counter attack.
I am tired of accounting tricks and cost of living and inflation adjustments. These are nothing but smokescreens. I want only 2 numbers...What did the government spend last year, and what is it going to spend this year??? no accounting tricks or adjustments...just mean gross numbers
to stop the tide of overwhelming advances on debt, we must first stop spending. If this years number is equal to or lower than last years number, we have stopped retreating, and can spend a year mustering our counterattack. It would appear to me that this budget not only stops the advance, but begins the counterattack.
People need to stop with the hysterics and calmly look at the situation as it is developing. Now, about those 2 numbers I asked for.......does anyone know what they are???
Newt is still considered a very smart person, just not a very moral one and definitely not an acceptable POTUS candidate. At least that's the feeling I get around here.
Rockerfeller Republicans (socialists) to the core. Government grew under Bush I, welfare programs expanded. Gingrich never accomplished a thing except flap his jaw.
Republicans (socialists) have managed some tax cuts (not really enough at all), but all in all are lapdogs here to fund and adminster Democrat (communist) programs.
I been inside the puzzle palace for almost thirty years (came with RR)...the ONLY person to do anything substantial since Reagan in terms of reform was actually Clinton with his welform reform (now watered down). Reagan was opposed by Republicans constantly. The Bushites did everything to sabatoge things.
Then we get Bush II - really and truly stupid as a rock and I beg foregiveness for insulting the earth’s building blocks.
The Big Boo
There you go Phil. Good job there. You nailed it.
Levin: Why is Boehner being a coward?
Posted by The Right Scoop on Mar 11, 2011 in Politics
Levin explains that the last Congress is trying to control the spending habits of future Congresses through this hidden ObamaCare funding, and Boehner, despite already breaking a rule to stop other appropriations, refuses to break the same rule to stop this funding. Thus Levin asks why is Boehner being a coward.
He adds that any Representative that votes for this CR is voting to fund ObamaCare, and he’ll see to it that they have to answer for it in their districts. He also adds, ‘grow a pair’.
Audio:
http://www.therightscoop.com/levin-why-is-boehner-being-a-coward/
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