Why don’t we just build a raft and sail to Easter Island, instead?
“Strategery” is not a word.
Too late. The Republicans already sold you down the river.
If this battle is lost - not much use in keep on trying. The only solution will be 2012 - and with all the idiot freeloaders in America, I have very little hope! Not to mention the stupid politicians of both stripes that once in power seem to forget the Armageddon is coming...
LOL! Didn’t we just send 57 folks to the District of Corruption and Boner said “We will just co-opt them when they get here.”
Looks to me like he got 30 or so just the other night...
You were saying about pledges and such?
“we are losing the spin...”
We will never “win the spin” from the Ministry of Truth. Get over it. That said, the folks who are deceived deserve what they get. Of course, life is gonna get pretty rough even for those of us who ain’t deceived. Get over that, too. It is too late for blame. Get ready.
“1. Produce a clean debt ceiling increase bill for $400 - $500 billion. “
This doesn’t shelve the default issue until after the 2012 election — which is the thing Obama most wants.
The government shut down for 3 weeks in 1995. People barely noticed. The stock market went up. Leave the debt limit right where it is and force Obama to choose what obligations get paid and what gets temporarily shut down. Let him explain why he chose to fund the garbage while not funding Interest payments, SS/M, troops, VA, etc. Then remind the public that CCB would have funded everything in the immediate term and put us on a path to balancing our spending long term.
They are not going to make any changes until they have no other choice, i.e. they run out of money, interest rates spike, hyperinflation hits, food and gas shortages begin, no one will lend us money, etc, etc.
We might as well face it, a crisis of Great Depression proportions is the only thing that will stop these people.
. Republican control is not the answer. There is no one in leadership who even understands the question.
Electing Jim DeMint or Rand Paul President might do it. Otherwise, it's batten down the hatches and can a lot of food.
Obamacare is the skunk in the punch bowl.
Everyday, and in every way, the PUBs are showing that they are immaterial and cowardly in efforts to save this country from ruin and chaos.
Everyday, and in every way, the PUBs are paving the way to their own destruction. The final nail will be when Romney is nominated for President. That guarantees a third party candidate - Sarah Palin. Conservatives in Congress need to abandon the PUBs NOW before the whirlpool sucks them down too.
I know the arguement is that a third party can’t win; that it will only guarantee 0bambi’s reelection and that Governor Palin is “too devisive” to win.
The seeds for a new party have already been planted - the Tea Party caucus. All that remains is the formal declaration.
RUN, SARAH, RUN.
Geithner already went over the “ceiling” by $200 Billion since June by taking and spending federal/military retirement savings (debt now $14.5 Trillion)
We are not talking about them borrowing money for the future, they are desperate to borrow money that they already sent
Meanwhile did Barky warn anyone that the bombing of Tripoli would stop before the social security checks?
Who in the world would believe this "pledge"?
Instead of a "pledge" each congress critter and the President offered up their children and grandchildren, to be kept under armed guard, at the base of the Hoover Dam, with the understanding that if number three is not agreed to by date certain, all of the munchkens would be, in full view of the public via TV, drowned.
Under those conditions, I might, maybe, possibly take the "pledge" 'series'.
I volunteer to be the gatekeeper of the flood switch.
1) There are 53 Democrats in the Senate, and 4 Republicans who vote with them.
2) Barack Obama is the President.
3) 70% of voters either pay no tax, or get a Federal check, or both.
4) There are, at most, 60 votes in the House and 5 in the Senate to respect the Constitution.
My take on "political reality", on a beautiful Sunday morning.
The second coming of Christ is the only solution. We may be very close to that.
That the Senate has not produced a budget in over 2 years, which is required by law. Why not demand that the law be enforced? We can't ignore the law, why can the Democrats.
In fact, the lawlessness of the Federal Government ought to be made an issue by every Republican. Obama decided not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, Fast and Furious gun smuggling, Czars, Obama's executive orders.
Out of control Federal Government is the predictable result of Big Government. There can be no Freedom with Big Government. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending.
Your premise that Obama and the Democrats really do want to avoid a collapse and default is false.