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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Gosh, I never knew that supporting the Balanced Budget Amendment made you a liberal.

No. It doesn't make you a liberal. However, voting for one that you absolutely know won't pass could well mean you're nothing but a hypocrite trying to gain political cover. Especially when the context is you trying to gain political cover because you just voted to borrow and spend another couple of TRILLION dollars. Which could well mean you're a liberal, eh?

326 posted on 07/30/2011 10:56:10 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (They've swindled every penny out of the living, so now they've moved on to looting posterity.)
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To: EternalVigilance

The reason to have a vote on the BBA even if it will not pass is to demonstrate the actual position of the Dems to voters who will then elect conservatives who will support and pass it.


329 posted on 07/30/2011 10:59:08 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable -- Daniel Webster)
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To: EternalVigilance
No. It doesn't make you a liberal. However, voting for one that you absolutely know won't pass could well mean you're nothing but a hypocrite trying to gain political cover.

Maybe it won't pass the first time or the second but we need to have the conversation out there. We can make it an issue in 2012 we can make the RATs wear it.

While we are at it we can do a cap bill too and that doesn't need a 2/3 majority. Just doing CCB in stages.

358 posted on 07/30/2011 11:31:15 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama, eat your GOPeas.)
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