Posted on 07/13/2011 2:46:39 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
I heard Rush today and he did a fantastic job.
If the GOP House lets Obama raise the debt ceiling w/o some very serious curtailing of federal spending in FY12 and FY13 then you can be sure that the GOP have caved in bigtime. We’ll soon see how much FY12 and FY13 are in comparison to FY08 and FY09. And there will be nowhere to hide for the GOP in the November 2012 elections if they caved in. They have their opportunity now with the Debt Limit debate to make sure that real cuts happen.
The easiest way to lay this at the feet of Obama is to hold the debt ceiling where it is. He will be forced to make decisions that define his priorities. If he fails to service the debt, Republicans can fairly ask why he would hurt his own country while promising billions to bail out Greece and Pakistan. If he hurts old people with social security cuts, Republicans can ask why he thinks that funding the NEA and UN is more important than senior citizens. They can also ask why we continue to support illegal immigration benefits while cutting social security. Demagoguery goes both ways. The beauty of holding the line on our debt is that it exposes Obama’s skewed priorities.
I had to get in my car at lunch just to hear Rush...these are sort of scary times.
Good for Rush!
But he genuinely admires the man?!?
So, you think that McConnell’s strategy isn’t all that bad? I’d sure like to hear more...and I’d like to agree.
Elaborate.
Keep in mind that just 42 months ago the government was forecasting a surplus for FY12.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy08/browse.html
“it’s kind of a backdoor way of giving Obama just about everything he wants without the Republicans having to take the blame for it. “
Exactly. It is like when the House “deems a bill passed”. It a trick by which Congress makes a decision but pretends they didn’t.
The McConnell bill is surrender to the Democrats, plain and simple. We won’t even get anything politically about it because Obama will just submit phony smoke & mirrors cuts. Obama won’t be seen as responsible for raising the debt ceiling because he’s just going along with what Congress gave him.
There are no “postive aspects to this”. Rush’s praise of McConnell is an example of why the RINOs keep surrendering like this: we let them get away with it.
The only time Republicans start acting like conservatives are those rare occasions when something like the Tea Party lights a fire under them. Congress will move as far left as we let it.
“The easiest way to lay this at the feet of Obama is to hold the debt ceiling where it is.”
The problem with this - and with all the ‘dont raise it’ claims - is that it creates the very crisis that plays into Obama’s hands.
It’s like the McConnell plan, only more double-edged.
OBAMA WANTS A CRISIS.
WE NEED TO SHOW THE COUNTRY THAT (A) THE GOP CAN LEAD AND (B) THE GOP PLAN IS THE RIGHT ONE.
- McConnell doesnt do it
- Voting ‘no’ doesnt do it
What does it? Simple:
- Pass in the House a debt ceiling increase with spending-cuts-only. pass it and send it to the Senate and White House. Declare “we passed our position now you pass yours in the Senate and we will negotiate on the basis of that”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/mcconnells-plan-confuses-the-chattering-class/2011/03/29/gIQAxEAGBI_blog.html
Amen. Rush also mentioned Bernanke is making noises about a THIRD STIMULUS. Our guys aren't even TRYING to stop any of this.
I heard that part of the show today and I thought Rush was soft on McConnell. He didn’t “give him hell” in my opinion. I think he was easy on him. I don’t think he even brought up the point that the plan is unconstitutional. The power is not McConnell’s to just hand off to Obama. The Congress is to control the purse strings of the U.S.
McConnell is trying to give Congress’ constitutional control over to the arrogant, power hungry Obama. If they hand that over to Obama and the executive branch, what in the world do we need Congress for?! McConnell is either an idiot, or he knows exactly what he’s doing and he is evil.
“Weakness” = one of the great understatements of all time.
The only way that Congress can give that power to the President is through the passing of a Constitutional Amendment. In his 1996 majority opinion, Stevens concurred:
Clinton V. New York City on Line item Veto
Obama says that checks for veterans and social security won't go out? I dare him. Impeachment papers will be drawn so quickly his head will spin.
Punk!
McConnell is afraid of Obama’s “Scare the Geezers” threat/political gambit. However, the facts simply don’t match Obama’s rhetoric, and every Republican should be shouting this from the rooftops:
“The failure to increase the debt ceiling will NOT stop Social Security payments from going out in August or any time soon. President Obama is either ignorant or a liar.”
Want something to back it up? Here you go: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=189943 Fact: the SSA is still running a surplus (though it is small), and even if it was running a deficit, it has literally trillions in Treasury IOUs against which the Treasury can sell bonds on a 1:1 basis without raising the overall debt ceiling. These are intergovernmental loans - selling bonds to liquidate them doesn’t add one thin dime to the debt. But the average person doesn’t know this, and is easily snookered by a smooth talking pol like Obama.
Republicans need to tell the truth and tell it often, otherwise the Dems will never cut spending by enough to save our economy from sailing over a cliff in the fairly near future. We can’t just slow down, we have to stop and reverse course or our financial system will collapse. Since 1990 we have increased spending by roughly 7.5% per year, compounded, while the GDP has grown by only 4% per year, compounded. No person, company, country or planet can keep doing that forever, it is a simple mathematical impossibility - politics has nothing to do with that...yet the Dems in general, and Obama in particular, are so deluded that they can’t see it and only want to play political games with it. Here are the details of the irrefutable math: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=188993
This is a great example of Congress. They have no problem with naming a post office, but when tough decisions have to be made they would much rather be on the golf course with “The Won”.
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