I'm beside myself. Boehner can barely play checkers when he's forced to play chess. He needs to retire.
I used to be a member of the NYS Conservative Party. I registered as a pubbie in Oct 2007 to vote for Fred Thompson in the spring primary in 2008. (That's how far in advance you had to change registration to vote in NY's closed primaries.) Thompson dropped out by the time of the primary, so I voted for Romney then as the alternative to McCain in 2008. This last spring I voted for Newt, IIRC.
The GOP is damaged goods. Last November, "White voters did not turn out, and they did not turn out in significant numbers." Only the stupid party would nominate Daddy Warbucks to run in the worst economic downturn since the grreat Depression! However, "there is a Blue Civil War coming," too.
I could go for a new mostly conservative party, stressing fiscal conservatism like the Tea Party. My only break with social conservatism is if someone wants to gamble, do drugs or have same sex civil unions, that's their problem. The state can't change human nature which by its nature isn't perfect.
In the meantime, the GOP will be blamed for anything it does. I think the House should renew all of the Bush tax cuts even though it makes our debt worse. Taking those taxes out of the economy won't help our economy. Obama wants to tax the only people who have any disposable income. Our problem isn't enough revenues, it's chronic Keynesian deficit spending.
The real problem is increasing the debt limit. If they won't decrease spending, then we have to increase the debt limit or have our bonds downgraded. Anybody will want more interest to buy our bonds, IMHO.
” - - - we have to increase the debt limit or have our bonds downgraded. - - - “
WRONG! Our Bonds and credit rating will be downgraded because our National Debt to Annual GDP ratio is > 1.
Raising the Debt ceiling is only to allow Obama to keep overspending our tax dollars.