Posted on 07/18/2011 10:09:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes, and there is much more to come.
The MSM and regrettably too many conservative commentators just dismiss the Senate response to House-passed legislation as "it won't pass the Senate."
That is NOT the point. With every step of strategery, the House is going to force vulnerable Senate RATS (Tester, Manchin, Sherrod Brown, both Nelsons, McCaskill, etc) to vote on many things they abhor politically. If they vote with the GOP, they infuriate Reid, Obama, and their fundraising Left. If they vote with Obama, they infuriate their constituents in 2012 -- these are all red states with Obama at the top of the ticket. Bottom line: Reid cannot protect them, so let's bring it on. All of it.
Say good night to Tester, both Nelsons, McCaskill, and hopefully Manchin and Sherrod Brown, as well.
Keep all the phone calls going to Capitol Hill both GOP and Dem members - House and Senate. It matters. TEL 202-224-3121.
Please see post 61 and reconsider what matters and what does not.
We are living at the whim of world class corruption.
I find no compelling evidence there will BE an election next year.
More and more everyday, I feel this way.
And I've had this feeling since on or before Jan. 20, 2009
Your conclusion would be correct IF that were all the House was going to do -- pass the cut, cap and balance bill.
There is more to come -- much more -- to demonstrate to the public that it is Obama who is being unreasonable.
Strategery.
Cut, Cap & Balance bill: HR 2560 (PDF)
Balanced Budget Amendment HJ RES 56 (same as SR RES 10)
HJ RES 56 Joe Walsh sponsors with 59 co-sponsors include Issa, McClintock, Pence, West and Wilson
Michele Bachmann is AWOL.
SR RES 10 Hatch sponsors with 47 co-sponsors. It looks like all GOP senators on board including squishy types like Brown, Collins, Graham, Lugar, McCain and Snowe.
One Congress cannot lock future Congresses into a spending plan. That's exactly why the Balanced Budget Amendment is part of this plan. That does have the teeth to hold Congress accountable long term, regardless of parties in power.
You can argue the initial year's cuts are too small but claiming this plan does "nothing" is as silly as it is wrong.
The Balanced Budget Amendment will not pass. No meaningful spending cuts will pass. If the gutless wonder “GOP Leaders” have their way, Comrade O will get his increase in debt limit (lest nervous GOP plutocrats be inconvenienced in any way) and his political slush funds. Lucy...Charlie Brown... football. Again and again and again. Pie in the sky bye and bye.
Right you are. Don’t take any guff from the peanut gallery. We have Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, Marco Rubio and a lot more. We don’t need the quislings like Boehner and McConnell.
now that that cut, cap and balance is shut down, his next move is to use the 14th amendment to skirt the congress.
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