Posted on 08/02/2011 11:23:45 AM PDT by GreaterSwiss
The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon. No suspense there. But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS that senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee” for deficit reduction that the legislation creates.
While there’s certain logic to such a policy, it could be self-defeating. Excluding those who vote against the debt deal will ensure that some of the most fiscally conservative members of the Senate Republican caucus, including most of its freshmen, will be reading about the committee’s activities in the newspaper rather than guiding its decisions. Among those who have already declared their opposition to the deal: libertarian-leaning senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul; Jim DeMint, the aggressive fiscal hawk from South Carolina; conservative reformers Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania; the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions; and Florida’s Marco Rubio, already one of the highest-profile conservatives in Congress.
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Time to primary all Yes votes!
.....guess who the13th. member of this gang is? ...none other than the The White House!
They have indicated that they will harness the power of the Super Congress, thereby becoming the de facto deciding 13th member.
You've got that right. If there isn't a few (not just one) Tea party members on that committee, we'll KNOW we've been lied to by our 'own' party - AGAIN. If it weren't for the Tea party members, the republicans would still be sitting in the corner as the simple minority in the house.
By golly, for 2012 I'm going to work my butt (and fingers) off like never before to get out the Tea party votes. I've never been so pumped up!
Free the tax slaves. We're not animals!
I Doubt very much that the people of Nevada could possibly re elected Harry. ACORN did it their way. Unless we vote in the precinct voting booth, and the ballots are hand counted by real people rather than manipulative computers, the scribes and Pharisee hypocrites will prevail!
Anyone know how Alan West voted last night?
There is no Constitutional authorization to reconstitute the Legislative Branch.
Attempting to cut Conservatives out of the process will have dire consequences. It is a direct affront to the 'next to last box'.
Ignore the electorate at your peril, RINOs!
You could be looking for a job in the economy you create.
if there were ever an engraved invitation to target, challenge and tithe from your paycheck in order to defeat Mitch McConnell, this is it.
Yes sir! Indeed!......Sounds like the demo-rats and re-pups have no intentions of letting their gravey train be foiled by the American people.
Just as they do with everything...they acknowledge the "new" changes the people demand...but then corral their sphere of control away from any who might have changed the face of Washington. That is what this committee of 13 is about....at any other time in history it would be called TREASON.
For some reason, there is a belief that we should accept this carp sandwich as a great beginning because the very same people who have spent us into oblivion are now going to get our fiscal house in order. Never mind that the cuts are nonexistent (especially when you factor in even the slightest bit of inflation - which has a really great chance of increasing over 10 years, dontcha think?) but the simplest act of just legislating no baseline increase next year would have lobbed 9 trillion off, immediately. Additionally, the 1% plan wasn't even considered! Suddenly, there are many who believe the same Congress that couldn't manage to stand on terra firma and say no are now going to do that with the help of the shopaholic democrats because they're now a "super" Congress.
Finally, they just reached into our pockets and gave Obama TRILLIONS more to blow on special interests and couldn't even make him responsible for it before the next election. Yea, those against this are ignorant, alright.
This type of concentration of power is NOT my definition of smaller gubmint. This is as scary as Barry’s unregulated and unsupervised Czars. -
Just takes 1 RINO and Democrats own the “supercommittee” anyhow.
bttt
“senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “supercommittee”
So vote for it and get on that damned comittee. Talk about your misleading headlines.
Agreed
Some of us are tired of being lied to or being told that it’s “the best we can expect”. BS! If our founders adopted that way of thinking we wouldn’t exist today.
Some of us expect to elect people who will ACTUALLY represent us and go to Washington to do as they say they will, which is the will of the people.
Some of us expect real results.
Days of compromise are over. Let the Tea Party be that which will save this Republic for all of us. They are our only hope at this point.
Anyone know how Alan West voted last night?
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He voted: AYE
Enough warnings. They need to be returned to the private sector, pronto.
Good they should all refuse to serve on a totally unconstitutional committee.
A "RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION" Campaign should be started immediately by PRIMARYING and REMOVING all those who have SIGNED ON to this atrocity on the taxpayers of America!
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