Posted on 07/15/2011 10:41:33 PM PDT by bobk333
Er, how exactly is this a pot sweetener for Republicans? We’re going to pass the McConnell bill to shift most (but not all) of the power over the debt ceiling to Obama, and in return we get … to take a tough vote on entitlement reform in an election year, when the Democrats will already be hard at work on Mediscaring? Didn’t we already check that box by voting for Paul Ryan’s plan? There’s little chance that any commission proposal will pass the Senate, bipartisan or not; there’s a slim chance that it won’t even pass the House as centrist Republicans from purple districts get squeamish about tackling Social Security just a few months out from election day. I can see this as a pot sweetener for Democrats, some of whom are suspicious of McConnell’s gambit, since it would hand them a bludgeon with which to beat the GOP. But for Republicans, the vote makes more sense if it comes in 2013, not next year. Or is the fear here that, come 2013, there won’t be a Republican majority in the House anymore so we need to try to move on this ASAP?
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Why do the Republicans have one of their most spineless members sequestered with Harry Reid to determine the future of fiscal policy in this country?
McConnell is a coward, a weakling who, at the first volley, the first real skirmish, has turned and is running scared.
Don't the Establishment Republicans who are responsible for getting us into this mess realize that we are headed for a *REAL* default? Can't they see how bad things are? I am convinced that they don't really understand the situation. The ratings Moody's and Standard and Poor's will give us down the road will be much harsher than the temporary and unlikely downgrade they are talking about now.
Spending must be curtailed.
Business must be given a favorable environment to operate.
But the Old Guard contines to kick the can down the road, as they have been doing for decades. The Old Guard is weak and indecisive. They have become fat, complacent,lazy and totally useless.
The Old Guard really doesn't get it.
If McConnell was around in 1776, there would have never been a revolution and we would all be British subjects. McConnell would have caved, turned and run, and left it up to King George to determine the future of the colonies.
For the good of the country, to avoid real Armageddon in the future, this aging out-of-touch clueless Republican Guard needs to go before it's too late. They should be taken out of the negotiations immediately.
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Nuther freakin’ commission that sits around having lunch. I call it the meet, eat and retreat club.
Oh yeah, we’re facing the meltdown of the US of A and he wants to form a commission???
Our chances are looking slimmer and slimmer - basically do to the stupidity and greed of our so called representatives. What a cluster.
If things get really bad the GOP might just get tough and co-nominate Obama and make him serve another 4 years as a real punishment!
//sarcasm
Each member of the Commission will need an office and a staff, per diem, expense accounts etc etc etc
LOL!
This year and next will be a watershed time for our country, and he's talking about a commission to study the situation? If that doesn't tell us they are out of touch and that they don't get it, I don't know what will. .
We have had really stupid, weak Republicans in the Senate and House for as long as I can remember. It shouldn't have taken a Tea Party movement to bring the debates about government spending and the national debt to the forefront. For years, they kept those issues in the background.
The Tea Party is trying to drive real change to avoid a *real* disaster, but these dimwits are in the way.
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...he'd have been friends with John Dickinson.
-PJ
Government as usual; politics as usual: inaction, bureaucracy, waste, and expense.
The Old Republican Guard are deadwood. They are past their time and totally useless. They need to get out of the way.
We need to get people in there who don't need a commission to tell them how to fix the country.
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This is all Old School silliness by people who do not realize the world has changed.
These guys think if they can “do the hard work to get the bill to the floor” and have a vote, then that’s it. Hey, we had a vote. It didn’t pass. We did all we can do!
They can NEVER accept that they can do things BY NOT HAVING A VOTE. They all think “we came to Congress to get things done.” But that’s Old School. In the world we have now, the best results occur by doing nothing.
They don’t need to get things done. Getting things done costs money. Doing nothing is what stops costing money.
You Were Not Sent To Congress To Do Things. You Were Sent To Stop Doing Things.
They can’t see that. They’ll have to be replaced.
What is wrong with our party. Another commission? It never ends with you people caving in to an avowed Marxist.
You just don't get it. We are fed up with gutless, spineless, politicians in the Gutless Old Party.. You could learn a lot from Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Sarah Palin, and Jim DeMint.
At least they love our country and have the guts to fight for what is right in saving our Republic.
If you cave in again, you can go to bed knowing you've allowed the destruction of America.
Regards,
Xxxx Xxxxx
I wonder if it's just a regular *old* commission or a *Special Blue Ribbon* commission?
Normally when we get screwed exceptionally bad if it's a *Special Blue Ribbon* commission.
McConnell in the senate needs to be replaced more than crybaby *Boner* in the house....Ditch Mitch!
You can guarantee that this commission will be packed with fossils like Bob Dole, and other retired Senatards in need of a summer job.
We elected enough house members to basically stop doing anything at all. When we get the house, the senate, the presidency, then we get busy fixing the country. the first 2 years of Obama was non stop hating what he’s doing all the time. I want a break from that. We don’t want to negotiate anything that’s going to last longer than the end of 2012. Why are the Republicans acting like we’re in a great spot now.
As I said a couple days ago. Someone needs to round up McConnell and chain him by the neck to a desk in the remotest part of an empty room. He should then be instructed to stand silently beside that desk and guard it... until he`s directed otherwise.
Seriously, though.. McConnell`s a typical establishment, country-club Republican. His innate tendency when presented with a critical challenge is to offer a “compromise,” i.e., a GOP surrender. The establishment types - especially in the Senate - have become irreversibly accustomed and conditioned to surrender because the MSM convinces them the public will take out a bloodlust rage against them at election time. Oh, they`ll talk up the platitudes in a token gesture.... but we, as well as the enemy, know how it`ll end.
By putting his own political fortunes ahead of the good of the country and sending up the white flag once again, Mitch McConnell is severely damaging what should be a golden opportunity to bring this regime to heel.
“retired Senatards in need of a job.”
Bi-partisan, of course... it`ll have to include Bob Kerrey and Alan Simpson.
it isn’t as if those like Reid and McConnell haven’t been warned ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4QHAYkSOTU&feature=share
A COMMITTEE! YEAH! WE’RE SAVED!
They will be Top Men.
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