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DeMint: Debt-ceiling debate will show if Tea Party is still 'a force'
the hill ^ | 7/18 | daniel strauss

Posted on 07/18/2011 10:16:58 AM PDT by RummyChick

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To: hosepipe

A nuke set off (in some city) by some domestic group could change the whole political landscape..


21 posted on 07/18/2011 12:18:11 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: RummyChick

“Cut, cap and balance” is actually “tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.”

Doesn’t anybody notice that the so-called “Tea Party Plan” raises the debt ceiling?

I know Tea Partiers in every state, and not one of them supports raising the debt ceiling.

This is an obvious scam. Wake up, people.


22 posted on 07/18/2011 12:18:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (It's not really 'cut, cap and balance,' it's 'tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.')
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To: RummyChick
Once again I'll say it:

Every single vote to contract debt that our generation cannot possibly pay is a vote for the enslavement of our grandchildren. It is the stripping of our posterity’s God-given right to self-government by consent. A yes vote to raise the debt ceiling is an unmistakable signal to already-overburdened Americans that all the campaign rhetoric about fiscal restraint was merely empty talk.

23 posted on 07/18/2011 12:19:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (It's not really 'cut, cap and balance,' it's 'tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.')
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To: RummyChick

This is a set up of the Tea Partiers for defeat.

On behalf of a plan Tea Partiers don’t even support.

It’s sickening.


24 posted on 07/18/2011 12:21:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (It's not really 'cut, cap and balance,' it's 'tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.')
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To: RummyChick

The “choice” the American people are being given is between a baseball bat to the knee, or a crowbar to the elbow. Either way the result is the same: the victim lying on the ground with broken bones and bleeeding.


25 posted on 07/18/2011 12:26:25 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (It's not really 'cut, cap and balance,' it's 'tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.')
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To: FrankR
So DeMint asking for the Tea Party movement to get off it's butt and pressure Congress is somehow ignorance, it's somehow an admission of sucking up to Democrats?

You're just nuts.

This is a critical moment between elections and if the Tea Party movement can't get worked up about it and take action, the movement is just a fraud, done, dusted and tossed on the ash heap of history.

26 posted on 07/18/2011 12:31:12 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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"Take action" in support of a "plan" that raises the debt limit, when we don't support raising the debt limit?

Explain to me why this isn't insanity of the highest order.

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.”

-- Winston Churchill


27 posted on 07/18/2011 12:47:31 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (It's not really 'cut, cap and balance,' it's 'tinker, obfuscate, borrow and spend.')
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To: FrankR

“Maybe we don’t have a free country anymore....”

No...... it’s just that when the chips are down, someone will need to be assigned to you to make sure you’re facing/firing at the enemy, and not at your own fellows. Keeping you orientated to the front divides our force and gives comfort and aid to the forces of evil formerly known as the loyal opposition (sic) Democrats.


28 posted on 07/18/2011 12:55:40 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: FrankR

“Maybe we don’t have a free country anymore....”

No...... it’s just that when the chips are down, someone will need to be assigned to you to make sure you’re facing/firing at the enemy, and not at your own fellows. Keeping you orientated to the front divides our force and gives comfort and aid to the forces of evil formerly known as the loyal opposition (sic) Democrats.


29 posted on 07/18/2011 12:55:40 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: FrankR

“Maybe we don’t have a free country anymore....”

No...... it’s just that when the chips are down, someone will need to be assigned to you to make sure you’re facing/firing at the enemy, and not at your own fellows. Keeping you orientated to the front divides our force and gives comfort and aid to the forces of evil formerly known as the loyal opposition (sic) Democrats.


30 posted on 07/18/2011 12:55:43 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: Forty-Niner

OPPS!!!! Triple twitch....my apologies to all.......


31 posted on 07/18/2011 12:57:12 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (Palin/West 2012)
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To: Forty-Niner
I don't know who you think you are delivering your obama-style lectures, but my credentials as a conservative have been proven thousands of times on this board since 1998, not to mention over 1000 political, anti-obama, anti-democrat grapics and cartoons.

However, I am not a blind willy or a robot of the GOP either, there are too many of them who are RINO's and democrats in GOP clothing.

I've made it for 65 years without some smartass trying to "assign" anyone to me, and I'll be just fine here on out.


32 posted on 07/18/2011 1:42:34 PM PDT by FrankR ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
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To: RummyChick

Why dies the Tea Party have to prove it is a force on every debate and every piece of legislation?

senator DeMint and conservative Republicans were sent to Washington last November to reduce the debt, deficit and spending. Nothing has changed so just do it. You conservative people in Washington have been given a mandate. We are not full time legislators!


33 posted on 07/18/2011 5:02:28 PM PDT by orinoco
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