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Conservatives Have Completed Their Cave On The Debt Ceiling
Business Insider ^ | 01/22/13 | Grace Wyler

Posted on 01/22/2013 1:59:35 PM PST by Wisconsinlady

“The Club for Growth will not oppose tomorrow’s vote on the debt ceiling,” Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in the statement. “The Club for Growth will, on the other hand, strongly oppose any efforts during the upcoming debate over the continuing resolution and sequester that fail to arrest out-of-control spending and put sensible limits on the growth of government.”

That's a major reversal for an organization whose primary mission is to force lawmakers to curb government spending.

Until now, Club for Growth has demanded that any vote to increase the debt limit include a balanced budget amendment. The last time Republicans tried to raise the debt ceiling, during the August 2011 budget battles, Club for Growth came out strongly against the deal, even though it included $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending cuts.

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This mass retreat paves a clear path for House Republicans to easily pass tomorrow's debt ceiling bill. That legislation basically suspends the debt ceiling limit for four months, with the expectation that the Senate will pass a budget in that time.

On Wednesday, the White House signaled that President Barack Obama would sign the Republican debt ceiling bill, should it pass the Senate.

"He will not stand in the way," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters. "We support the extension of the debt ceiling without drama or delay."

1 posted on 01/22/2013 1:59:43 PM PST by Wisconsinlady
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To: Wisconsinlady

Surprise. Surprise. Republicans are good on caving, playing defense, cowering, not showing leadership, and generally doing things with the ultimate goal of thinking the Democrats will like them if they only are nice.


2 posted on 01/22/2013 2:02:25 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: From The Deer Stand

Conservatives? No, I don’t think so. RINO perhaps, but not conservatives.


3 posted on 01/22/2013 2:05:03 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: Wisconsinlady

They should change their mascot to the cave bear.


4 posted on 01/22/2013 2:05:40 PM PST by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: From The Deer Stand

They all look so purty in their clean pressed suits too.. shame to see ‘em actually fall off their high horse flat on their faces.. again.. but sadly, not ‘unexpected’.


5 posted on 01/22/2013 2:07:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: From The Deer Stand

Obama and the democrats are hell bent on burning down America. And it appears the republicans are goong to stand by and watch it burn.


6 posted on 01/22/2013 2:07:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Wisconsinlady

We’ll see, should be a good idea to pound on the Dems for the next four months for spending cuts and have that to show when the debt ceiling comes up again.

Of course we all expect the RINOs to fold in exchange for ‘unicorn cuts’ in future spending that will never happen but who knows?
The Republicans, RINOs as well as conservatives, will suffer horribly in 2014 if action isn’t taken on spending. Someone in the Party is bound to realize that!


7 posted on 01/22/2013 2:08:18 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mrsmith

” Someone in the Party is bound to realize that!”

You have more faith in the Republican party than I do!


8 posted on 01/22/2013 2:11:08 PM PST by Wisconsinlady (The 2nd amendment is NOT about hunting-but protection from a tyrannical govt)
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To: Jim Robinson

Purist! /s


9 posted on 01/22/2013 2:11:17 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Wisconsinlady

Too many cowardly asshats still occupy the Republican side of the House.

In 2014, every RINO must be purged, especially the feckless leader, Boehner.


10 posted on 01/22/2013 2:15:55 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Wisconsinlady

SUCKERS!!!!!


11 posted on 01/22/2013 2:17:07 PM PST by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Retreating one foxhole at a time.

The Republicans ARE WORTHLESS AND IN THE WAY.


12 posted on 01/22/2013 2:19:46 PM PST by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Wait till the NRA caves on universal background checks or imports on ammo and parts or something like that.


13 posted on 01/22/2013 2:20:38 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Wisconsinlady

I don’t know what’s worse, the pResident leading from behind or the Republicans following from in front.


14 posted on 01/22/2013 2:20:38 PM PST by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: Wisconsinlady

Well, this actually puts the onus on the Senate. The Republicans can sit back and make the Senate pass a budget with this. It also puts the nuclear option in the public’s eye.


15 posted on 01/22/2013 2:23:26 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: servantboy777
Conservatives? No, I don’t think so. RINO perhaps, but not conservatives.

Yup. Either bad title or misleading tactics.
16 posted on 01/22/2013 2:24:11 PM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: Wisconsinlady
"He will not stand in the way," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters. "We support the extension of the debt ceiling without drama or delay."

Oh hallelujah - there will be rejoicing amongst the gang on the left with their plan to destroy the GOP. There will also be NO FIGHT on the CR no matter what they are professing simply because they are so afraid of the media and the WH blaming them for a GOV shutdown.

IMHO what is the difference - stand tall because the GOP is going to be blamed for everything that is wrong with America anyway now that we have "Our Lord and Savior" about to bring us all fully into utopia, and set right all the misdeeds of 230+ years. /s
17 posted on 01/22/2013 2:26:32 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Wisconsinlady

I have no problem passing a short term extension to get something done, but if it is done as suspending it for four months, what kind of precedent does that set? It needs to be clear, or the leftists will hammer us later for that type of action. ‘they suspended it before, why not now?’ Our side always seems to cower under those accusations these days.


18 posted on 01/22/2013 2:32:13 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: Wisconsinlady

It’s not caving if you read the bill. They’re playing offense and it worked. Now they have set the next battle’s playing field just right.


19 posted on 01/22/2013 2:37:49 PM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: Wisconsinlady

Thats OK,the “Grand Old Party” will get ‘em next time. Keep kicking that ca down that long dust road.


20 posted on 01/22/2013 2:38:12 PM PST by Signalman
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