If so, you have better eyesight than I do.
Time to email and phone
I'm telling you it's EVERYWHERE. I won't ping you anymore. You get the point.
Hewitt did a 180 on his show last night and is now openly calling for the GOP to reject the deal. He was audibly livid over that Obama speech yesterday.
If so, you have better eyesight than I do.
If anyone actually believes that the GOP will hold strong THIS TIME (after 400 disappointments in a row), then I have some lovely beachfront property in Nebraska for ya. Cheap!
Emailed my representative this morning - Steve Palazzo - freshman Republican. Will be interesting to see what he does - defeated Gene Taylor.
Argh. I don’t know what to say/write. I am flabbergasted. This is not the Boehner mistake that other posters are claiming, IMO. It is orders of magnitude worse. I write that as someone who supported Boehner just a day or two ago.
I do not agree with those who claim that this is merely the 400th time in a row that the Republicans have caved. I think you are mistaken. This time was supposed to be different. This time HAD to be different. This time the Republicans controlled the House, had a renewed vigor and electoral mandate, etc. This time there would be no budget gimmicks, because the stakes are too high.
Some important conservatives put their intellectual weight behind this deal, once it was struck. And now it turns out that it, too, was smoke and mirrors. Add that to Boehner’s transgression; and then multiply by the Obama factor — that once the ink was barely dry he launches the BS that he did yesterday.
I like National Review’s headline vis-a-vis Boehner: STRIKE ONE, except that I might put STRIKE TWO considering how much he screwed up. His credibility is flat out shot. He’s not out yet, but he is in big trouble.
I remain convinced that the Democrats and RINOs will be virtually extinct after Nov 2012. Seriously, I think they will be hammered worse than anyone presently realizes. I look at the numbers, including for example today’s employment numbers, and I think that anyone not affiliated with the Tea Party is just TOAST.
Meanwhile, Obama has moved even farther to the left and he’s dug himself in even further, neither of which I would have thought was possible.
We are too far away from Nov 2012 to wait this out. It would be mid 2013 before any changes could take effect, and a year or two or three thereafter to unwind the bulk of the nonsense that Obama has established. I just don’t think our country can last that long.
I really do think that the Republicans that we have in Congress are good people and that they have our interests at heart. They just do not see a way to overcome the Democrats, who control too much of the power. And so they get what they can and move to the next step. They cave. But we can not wait.
I think Boehner needs to deliver the goods, and soon. I don’t mind if we get this step behind us. It is a distraction. But as a party we need to rally behind the Paul Ryan plan and insist that we immediately move aggressively in that direction.