Posted on 08/05/2011 8:58:53 PM PDT by pulaskibush
S & P has downgraded the United States Credit Rating to AA+ from the AAA rating we had since 1917. It's no suprise since massive spending is still being done on things like green projects, illegal aliens, and useless bureaucrat organizations like the EPA. Decades of foolish Democrat Spending, a few years of foolish Republican Spending, and the spending by Soros Puppet Obama (soon to be more than all other Presidents combined) has harmed the nation that the world depends on. Who will the lazy corrupt Mexican "government" dump their people on without the United States of America?
Republicans could have better shown themselves to be fiscally responsible had they held on to Cut, Cap, and Balance for a few more days. Instead, RINOs in the US Senate joined the "Gang of 6", the same day Cut, Cap, and Balance was passed. Boehner and House Republicans could have still held on until the day before "Default Tuesday", but instead went with Boehner 2.0 and then 3.0. All of the United States Representatives from Arkansas joined Boehner in the 3.0 immediate compromise, I have video of confronting one of them which I will post later. If more conservative bills are so easily thrown away, the Tea Party may have to primary and replace some of the Republicans they put into office in 2010!
Arkansas Ping!
The TEA Party needs to hold every Republican who voted for it responsible. We need GOP leaders to be primaried.
Boehner and McConnell were Bush TARP henchmen rounding up Republican votes in 2008. You actually believed anything changed when they were left in charge?
Amen to that! Let’s put Boehner at the top of the “to be primaried” list, please.
Too bad the Republicans backed down on anything because it would have been better to leave the ball in the Democrat’s court! Outrageous! I don’t see where we made any mileage at all in turning the country around! And now Boehner is bailing completely out of the life boat? Great!
With Obama banning Americans holding gold bullion it appears that he now has his foot in the door to pluck the rest of our liberties away from us!
I told Tim Griffin to at least hold on to Cut, Cap & Balance until at least “Default Tuesday”, then be “forced” to compromise, but between the RINO Gang of 6 in the Senate, and Boehner 2.0 coming out moments later, Griffin and the other Arkansas Republicans joined in passing Boehner 3.0 to keep the US Credit Rating at AAA+.
If I had the choice, I would vote for a Democrat over Boehner. We can afford one less Republican in the House, we cannot afford the Crybaby as the House Republican "leader".
Am sure he will win his district even with new lines drawn in OH.
But that’s no guarantee he won’t be voted out anyway as majority leader.
Weeper of the House has sold out the nation the past week.
He and Pelosi can have a chat on what it is like to go against the will of the people.
Many warned Bonehead. Dump him and appoint another Speaker.
Well duh! How’s that working for them?
After watching Ar politics for 25 years, it is obvious to a true Reagan Republican that most of the elected Ar Republicans are citizens who wanted to be in politics but couldn’t break into the Democratic political hierarchy. Look at their voting records, watch what they do, pay no attention to what they say they will do. You must look at the fruit on their tree. We are a state of largely conservative Americans who are handing over the reins to untrustworthy people in elected positions in both parties.
Our Republican representatives were very quick to use the Compromise “for the good of the Nation” excuse. Remember, the first definition in Webster’s for Compromise is “to give in on one’s principles”. Someone please help me explain to the “children”(it was for them you know) how giving in on one’s principles is a good thing. A compromise is whether we will buy 10 or 6 of an item and compromise on 8. It is not when one party wants an unlimited credit card and you say you want to cut up the credit card and pay off the debt and then vote instead to raise the credit card limit and continue to spend without end. These representatives showed us who they truly are and they must go.
Explain how the vote for the debt compromise was good when every family in America in this same situation cuts up THEIR credit cards, tightens THEIR belt to make ends meet, and PAYS OFF THEIR DEBTS! Notwithstanding the radioactive fallout from their actions.
These officials knew the answer and had not the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing on behalf of the citizenry nor to their oath of office to “Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL ENEMIES, Foreign and Domestic.” The enemy in this instance was looking back at them in the mirror.
Also, to all of my fellow conservatives out there, don’t fall for the moderate trap. After all, a moderate is simply a Liberal that is lying. Moderates have principles based upon the expediency of the moment and will never act conservatively when another option is available. Again look at last week, we had Cut, Cap, and Balance on the table. We could have stood strong on principle. The reason we did not stand firm was because CC&B was not based on these members principles, they voted their true principles on Monday and Tuesday.
What did Obama & the obstructionist Senate say about CCB?
Harry Reid: "Over, Done, Dead"
White House: "Duck, Dodge and Dismantle."
Thank you for being a voice of clarity.
You are precisely right.
However, it has to be said that the hobbits in the House, and a few in the Senate, who voted against the debt ceiling bill are the only ones in DC who are serious.
S & P warned that 4 trillion in cuts were necessary to avoid being downgraded.
Those who voted for the bill didn’t heed that warning.
I think we are going to have to make the TeaParty candidates pledge to vote ‘no’ on every spending and tax increase bill-without exception.
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