Posted on 07/10/2011 4:36:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has issued a stern warning to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) as Boehner sits down with President Obama Sunday night to negotiate a raising of the debt ceiling: don't do it.
Palin, in an interview appearing in Newsweek, “made it clear that she’s against any deal that raises the debt ceiling and would hold House Speaker John Boehner’s feet to the fire if he agreed to one” according to the magazine.
“No, we have to cut spending. It is imperative, and I will be very, very disappointed if Boehner and the leaders of the Republican Party cave on any kind of debt deal in the next couple of months,” she said.
Palin last month told Fox News that she would be against any raising of the debt ceiling and favors holding the line and slashing spending across the board instead.
But she acknoweldged that Congress will likely raise the debt ceiling anyway.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner again on Sunday said that the U.S. credit rating would suffer if the debt limit is not raised by Aug. 2—a prospect that would lead to higher interest rates and lower economic growth.
Only a small minority of Republicans in Congress, such as presidential candidate Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) are taking the “just say no” approach to the debt ceiling. Most Tea Party-backed members in the House favor tying a raising of the debt ceiling to cuts, spending caps and a balanced budget amendment.
In the Newsweek interview, Palin brags that she could win the White House if she chooses to run for it in 2012.
Did Rick Perry really say that concerning 1070? I remember Meg Whitman said about the same thing concerning California.
Boehner is going to cave as is his nature. If Palin wants in this fight I am all for it but she needs to weigh in soon or she will be left behind. Bachmann is out there taking the heat. Why isn’t Palin?
If her high negatives have been debunked, I missed it. Please show how it has been debunked.
Thanks. I think that set of cards is all but flushed down the drain. That hand usually folds in Polite Company.
I say this in complete seriousness. Read Sun Tzu - The art of war. It is available online. It will show you in detail, exactly what and why Palin is doing what she is doing.
Windflier will back me up on it since he too has had the Epiphany ;)
Yep looks like it.
Do a simple search. This is old news on FR. But to start you off, the polling house is a lib go-to and the people who paid for it were associates of the “Corrupt bastards Club”/Murkowskiites in Alaska.
Got it. You don’t like Sarah. Good night.
Well, Boehner can cry.
i’d bet the farm Saracuda cold take both Boehner & Obammy in a tag team and beat their asses.
>> “She’s acting like a red-meat conservative.” <<
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‘Cept with her, its no act!
I normally don’t even respond but her points were straight from a media outlet and not a one of them would have given the Gipper a chance in hell. Don’t know why Free Republic members buy into the media garbage. The media only wins the spin game when we as a people don’t rise up, vote, give, work and make sure that after election day they have to wipe buckets of egg off their lying faces.
Palin has “very high negatives”, like you said, among the lamestream media and liberals who do not vote Republican anyway.
The “high negatives” are a Democratic talking point and are not scientific.
>> “Most Tea Party-backed members in the House favor tying a raising of the debt ceiling to cuts, spending caps and a balanced budget amendment.” <<
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Can they be that stupid?
Spending caps will be unnecessary if a balanced budget ammendment is passed. It will be tax increases every year!
I want to win this darned election and I want us to choose the strongest possible candidate and I believe it is accurate that Palin has high negatives. I know among the people here in Iowa who discuss these things, it is difficult to find much support for Palin.
I admit, support could be much stronger than I think but so far, I don't see it and polls don't reflect it.
It does none of us any good to see things through rose colored glasses.
People, even some Freepers, are so conditioned to believe propaganda and gun shy from turncoat ‘conservatives’ that I’m not surprised anymore.
If people would think logically and critically, this wouldn’t be a problem. But they don’t...or they are the fair-weather types that just refuse to. Ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately on a conservative site it’s the antithesis of what we are supposed to be about.
>> “We will NOT have a deal by Aug 2nd unless it’s a total and complete cave by the dims.” <<
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You’ve got to be kidding!
Boehner has his cave-in speech already written.
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