Posted on 07/23/2011 10:01:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jennifer Rubin is a conservative blogger at the Post. This was not the paper's editorial page or a news report. That does not detract at all from the post, but conspiracy theorists may rest easy.
I’m feeling optimistic, too. I think it must be a great feeling for Boehner, too; he’s doing politics the way he wasn’t brought up and formed to do (he comes from the nice-guy school of timid GOPer, like Bush) and it must be revealing a whole new world to him. One where you actually accomplish your project...
Ditto!!!
What was the Jell-o analogy? I missed it Vet.
I really like your wording of what a situation Boehner is dealing with. He literally has the weight of the world on his shoulders at the moment.
I am going to continue to hope the for once, just for once the middlers will see this as a necessity to keeping us afloat with our Credit Rating.
I think introducing the the fact that we, as a country, have a credit rating came as a bit of a surprise to many casual political observers. That kind of put reality into the entire scenario, especially when there are so many of us out here struggling to keep our own personal credit ratings in good standing.
I personally would not want to be in Boehner’s position right now. No matter what he does, he will be picked to pieces. We all should remember that he’s shown more spine than anyone on the right has over the last 4 years or so.
btb
Look for a budget line item marked “thumb screws”.
US Debt Clock: http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Even if Boehner “wins” what he asks for, he loses and we lose.
The die is already cast.
What is a $2 trillion spending reduction over several years when we are spending 150% of tax receipts and accruing $1.5 trillion in new debt each year?
Even double that amount is just a drop in the bucket.
Anything less than $2 trillion a year doesn’t put the budget in the black and allow something to start paying off the national debt, which is now about $14.5 trillion.
That amount is also just about 100% of our annual GDP.
And that doesn’t include the debt the government has declared to be “off budget”, or the long term debt not recognized in the annual budgets. The total of all debt is actually estimated to be $100 trillion or more - no one really knows for certain.
However, just the current “on budget” National Debt of $14.5 trillion is monstrous enough - It equates to about $130,000 per taxpayer and $46,500 per citizen.
There are now less than 112,000 taxpayers out of a population of almost 312,000,000 to pay the debt.
Where is that kind of money going to come from?
Currency inflation, that’s where.
Go here to view the real time US Debt Clock:
He said yesterday in his presser that he was going to the WH today.
I think Obama is one of these unfortunate types. Suddenly, it's, "Wait...you mean I'm outa cash? How did this happen? Can you loan me some......."
Boehner won’t pull a Gringrich because he’s got Jim Jordan breathing down his neck.
Jim Jordan is the Energizer Bunny crossed with General Patton. He never gives up. He never gives in.
He's a community organizer. Their job is to suck a greater than deserved share from the greater community to their favored group. They act as if the resources of the greater community are infinite. When the organizer is President, and dealing with the whole economy, he eventually hits the wall of finite resources.
I’m amazed at how many consider Boehner and Obama raising the debt ceiling to be some sort of victory.
Body language in the photos taken earlier today was classic.
The Washington Post got hit by hackers, maybe?
Whoa, Cheetah. Retract those claws for a moment.
Boehner wants to "flatten the tax code", which means that taxes will be less punitive across the boards, which leads to Americans having more money in their pockets, and that results in heightened economic activity - which results in MORE revenue to the Treasury.
It's a simple cause - effect relationship that has been demonstrated in the real world time and again, but burns the Democrat Statists like sprinkling holy water on a vampire.
See, there just wasn't enough oversight of Fannie and Freddie from four Congressional committees, the SEC, FED, and probably several other agencies before the Bawney Fwank led demise of our economy.
“You are an idiot.”
No I am NOT the one here, who wants more Tax Tweaking,Lefty.
“800 Billion?? What the Hell, What is so Damn Hard about? NO Taxes Period!In Washington since 92, That tax mentality Again!! JOHN it is NOT your MONEY,GOT IT?
Whoa, Cheetah. Retract those claws for a moment.
Boehner wants to “flatten the tax code”, which means that taxes will be less punitive across the boards, which leads to Americans having more money in their pockets, and that results in heightened economic activity - which results in MORE revenue to the Treasury.
It’s a simple cause - effect relationship that has been demonstrated in the real world time and again, but burns the Democrat Statists like sprinkling holy water on a vampire.”
The way I read it,There was there was like a Trillion in NEW Tax Revenue,This added! How do you CUT Tax and spending by increasing Tax flow?
Sorry Jennifer. typso ping.
In a remarkable press conference revealed that he had a deal with the White House on large debt reduction and $800 billion in additional revenue to be achieved through tax reform and enhanced enforcement.
The GOP House holds all the cards -- and the WaPo knows it. If he wants to, Boehner can "drive all the way to Baghdad" and crush Obama without raising a penny of taxes. This article is an attempt to stop the blitzkrieg with a cynical appeal to Boehner's vanity.
NO DEAL!
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