Unemployment worsens. Growth flatlines. Credit agencies threaten downgrades. And erstwhile pragmatic GOPers, bless their honest, sober, sensible hearts, are willing to place the blame precisely where it belongs: with the extremist “teatards,” whose ideologically intransigent and most likely racist demands for a cut in deficit spending, a cap on the growth of government (by way of tying its size to percentage of GDP), and insistence that a structural impediment to

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What’s left to say, really? The bipartisan House-passed Cut, Cap, Balance bill remains the only plan on the table, the only one that preserves our AAA rating, and is only four Democrat votes away from a Senate majority to end this debt crisis,” said Senator DeMint. “I will work to force another vote on Cut, Cap & Balance next week because the President and Democrats have not offered the American

I said this last night and I’m going to repeat it: CCB was the compromise. Boehner and McConnell — who’ve received no Democrat plan with which to negotiate, and are now feeling pressure to make some deal with the President, lest they get “blamed” for failing to raise the debt limit — need to suck it up and walk away from any further negotiations. Cobbling together a deal that pretends

…which the media and the Democrats — and even the establishment GOPers — are dismissing as not serious (or worse, to listen to Harry Reid, or Chuck Schumer, or Barbara Mikulski, et al, tell it), most likely because it seeks to constrain them and return us to a representative government rather than a government of ruling elites who take and then spend our money. 2/3 of Americans. And the Senate

And that’s even with Perry in the field, which seems increasingly likely. Pikachus wept. Having said that, if Perry gets in my bet is that Palin does not. Which would be a shame. Obama is planning on running on the idea that all the problems in the economy were inherited from a former Texas Governor. Giving him a Texas Governor to bounce that off of might not be the best

NRO looses its way once in a while, but how bad does a squish thing have to be to earn this rejection? “Some Republicans are getting desperate over the debt-ceiling debate, but we hope not desperate enough to embrace the Gang of Six proposal. It may be the worst of the debt-ceiling compromises placed before them to date.” [snip] “Republicans put a serious plan before the country when the House

Of course they did. Transnational progressivism demands the markets be regulated by our betters, and that must happen on a global scale, such is the force of their righteousness: For the first time in four years, the U.N. Security Council debated Wednesday whether climate change should be considered a priority worthy of the council’s attention, but it failed to reach agreement on the politically charged issue. The council settled for

Richard Miniter, “Why The Democratic Party Is Doomed”: Yes, the House Republicans may raise the debt ceiling for a mix of spending cuts and revenue raisers. Yes, Barack Obama may win the 2012 presidential contest. Yes, bureaucrats and judges will continue to impose new and costly regulations on the economy. But it doesn’t matter. The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party. This

…according to Senator Sessions, appearing on “The Mark Levin Show” just now. [update: ABC has it now] Now, here’s the thing: Reid is going to keep the Democrats in line (though ironically, he himself promised to vote for a balanced budget); but the fact is, a number of Democratic senators campaigned on support for a balanced budget and a balanced budget amendment. (Jim DeMint says the tally is 22 Democrats