Posted on 08/02/2011 12:44:55 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
In his own inimitable style Rush tells why the debt deal is a scam and how the Republican House members have been played for suckers in what's really - behind the empty and deliberately vague verbiage - a go-ahead for more Obama tax-and-spend billions. Hello Greece, here we come!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
yes.
Now the Kool-aide drinking party hacks will be pissed at Rush.
Bye Bye Bush tax cuts. That in itself is a hell of a tax increase.
Rush analysis is we were played.
Dick Morris analysis is T.E.A. Party winner, Obama loser.
I personally think we should have “called their bluff” for this contrived August 2nd date.
But my beliefs fail in the arena, because the elected (R) group HAS NO F'ING SPINE!
I am disheartened. But I will not be disarmed.
I see more people going into self-preservation mode, getting wise like those who came before them (Heartland Americans, if ya know what I mean), and petitioning their State government to consider defying the Fed government ... leading to ‘secessionist talk’ ...
Yes, because we all know that Paul Ryan is am imbecile, and easily tricked.
I won’t say who is an imbecile, but it has already started.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2757641/posts
Republicans will once again be standing there with the stinky end of the stick.
Bet on it.
In a strange way, the Bush tax cuts are removed from this process. The CBO numbers used to score the special committee’s work are set to assume the Bush tax cuts expire.
That means the democrats can’t hold out the expiration of the bush tax cuts as part of their “reduction plan”. They have to push for NEW taxes.
Obama of course said he would veto any attempt to save the bush tax cuts. He will be President when they expire on January 1, 2013, so even if we vote him out, we can’t stop him from vetoing.
However, that makes tax cuts a major part of the next election, and those tax cuts include a lot of popular tax cuts. The choice will be clear — elect Obama, and the tax cuts expire. Elect the republican, and we pass the tax cuts right after he is inaugerated.
But nothing in this debt deal could have gotten Obama to not veto the tax cuts, except an explicit item in the deal saying that it included a 10-year extension of those tax cuts.
Of course, that would have made it a deficit-increasing deal, since based on CBO scoring, keeping the tax cuts is a change in the budget. In an environment where we couldn’t get any real cuts, how would we ever have found another trillion and a half in cuts to balance the CBO cost of continuing the Bush Tax Cuts.
But now they are separate. The budget deal can’t force them to be expired, since it wouldn’t change the deficit at all; we can vote on them separately when we take the house/senate/white house in 2013. Hopefully we’ll put a package together to save most or all of them next year, so the senate has to vote for tax increases right before the election, and Obama has to veto right before the election.
This shows how horrible the problem REALLY is, because we are projecting huge deficits through 2020, even WITH the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, which is a major increase in revenue. There is a lot that needs to be cut if we want to keep taxes in check.
Time to Go Galt. Starve the monster to death.
If the market can “cooperate” and create a crisis like it did in September 2008 to get Obama elected, why wouldn’t you expect them to do the same with the debt default crisis? Some powerful entities have our politicians over a barrel, IMHO. Especially the Republicans.
Do you starve a monster, and hope it goes away and dies quietly, or do you attack it and kill it?
Seems to me the only way to deal with monsters is to cut their heads off, drive a stake through their hearts, or shoot them with a silver bullet.
Galt was wrong, IMO.
Like I said earlier, we need unified talking points. Graphs that plainly show what we are talking about. Common math for the Common Man.
GeeBus, people -— gather our great ideas, and pump them up everywhere we can, so the “Back Benchers” (lovingly termed by Mark Levin) can’t avoid putting it in the main stream media ...
I saw this one from a fellow conservative citizen:
“We could also adjust the tax rates by Congressional District. If your congressman votes for a tax increase, your taxes go up. Districts whose congressman voted against the tax increase would see their taxes stay the same. Conversely, if your congressman voted for a tax cut, you get a tax cut. People in districts whose congressman voted against the tax cut would not get one.”
The point isn’t whether it would ever pass — the idea is to spread it around so many places, that it can’t be swept under the rug by the Obamedia.
Whadday think?
They conveniently leave off the bloated Departments of the Fed government = the BIG savings
Join AMAC. No C*R*A*P
I'm siding with Sarah Palin, Allen West, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Jim Demint, Paul Ryan, and an ever growing list of Conservatives saying this was a good thing. Even Jim Demint admits it was the best we could get.
Nothing has happened until it happens. Don't get your panties in a wad over things that have not happened and are very unlikely to happen.
Obama and Reid both are saying, there will have to be revenue increases in part deux. That's what they said about part 1. They were wrong! They'll be wrong again.
Rush was quoting Dingy Harry. Why? Is that his credible source? Why the hell should we believe ANYTHING Dingy Harry or Obama have to say.
This is an example of seeing where the majority opinion is (even if it's DEAD WRONG) and agree with them to be accepted and regaled with praise for doing so. That's what Rush and others are doing in this case. Especially Beck, who I had to turn off today. I couldn't listen to his sanctimonious BS and his sycophant sidekicks agreeing with everything the “Prophet” Glenn had to say.
in hour 3 Rush sounded like he was getting awfully close to telling us it’s time to panic
What does Mark Levin have to say about this?
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