…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 is going to try to table the thing so as not to waste it’s valuable time. Which is spent on such things as not passing a fucking budget in over 800 days.
I said it earlier today, but let me repeat it here: CCB, in exchange for the raise in the debt limit Democrats are demanding, cuts spending, caps it as a percentage of GDP, and sets up a structure that prevents temporary politicians from granting themselves permission to deficit spend us into massive debt.
That is the compromise. That is what the election of 2010 was about. And yet the entire political establishment, save for the TEA Party conservatives, are treating it as if it’s a joke — and treating the TEA Party caucus as if it’s the dangerous, extremist fringe.
Don’t let them get away with it. Boehner and McConnell, it should be obvious by now, were never serious about CCB; it was merely a symbolic vote to them, a sop to the conservative base. Meanwhile, they’ve been working on “backup plans” that, by their very existence, undercut the pressure CCB could have leveled on the Democrat Senators who ran on supporting a balanced budget.
It’s the ruling class vs. the rest of us. Party has nothing to do with it.
Pitchforks and tar pots, people. Or they’ll keep robbing us blind and leave us and our children and grandchildren economically enslaved.
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These Senators are particularly vulnerable. Hit them hard.
Senator Jon Tester- 406-252-0550
Senator Ben Nelson- 402-391-3411
Senator Joe Manchin- 202-224-3954
treating the TEA Party caucus as if it’s the dangerous, extremist fringe
From the PoV of the proggs, it is dangerous. Damned dangerous. Scary bad dangerous.
And it better be, because otherwise we’re screwed for the next 3+ generations.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
There is no such animal as a ” particularly vulnerable ” congresscritter Jeff. I so wish it were so as mine here in MA would be the first to go.
Bill Nelson should get an earful too. He may be a goner anyhow, but that doesn’t mean he knows it yet.
i think you mean big ben of cornhusker kickback
repealing the 17th: the states should be able too yank these clowns at whim.
No, I mean Bill Nelson of Florida.
has this interminable pudding of fail fatally damaged McConnellBoehner’s chances of retaining their leadership posts after 2012?
Yes, right?
stand corrected. the senate needs a n
full nelson“Yes, right?”
oh noes you’re channeling mark levin
Jeff Sessions on the floor of the Senate.
I believe that we may have said once or twice around here that doing the right for the US also happens to be the only way for Republicans to win in 2012. Do you believe us yet? There are no half-measures that can win against enabled liars. Can you imagine how well this would be polling if the Republicans were out there advancing it?
What is the short statement we make to these offices?
A good chunk of the Republicans like spending money too. They just want to spend it differently. I count Boner among that group until he proves otherwise to me.
HA analysis
So, if it is bad policy, and bad politics, what is it good for? Oh right, to keep robbing us blind and leave us and our children and grandchildren economically enslaved.
Sen Sessions appears to get it.
My stab Joe –
The CC&B plan is good policy and I urege you to vote for it. We have to stop borrowing from our grandchildren. We are at a tipping point. We can’t keep spending more and more, borrowing more and more every year. This package is a small cut for next year, a reasonable cap on the size of government, and just plain common sense economics: having the federal government balance it’s budget, just like 49 of the 50 states and every business and family in this country.
urege is not actually a word, if you say that they’ll cut you off.
Thanks Motionview, you had me with “The CC&B plan is good policy…” I will go with it right now.
Mailboxes full, on to the email page.
In my neck of the woods there’s an institution called State University of West Georgia, which should properly be called SUWG, but when people started pronouncing that as a word they dropped the word “State” and now it’s UWG.
Not sure it’s any better, but maybe they figure since UWG doesn’t turn into an actual word they’ve got an out.
One thing that should be emphasized on that CNN poll that motionview has in #15 is that this is adults. CNN was trying to get results that would favor Obama and failed, badly. The wonder is that they reported it at all, that should worry the administration also.
the fat idiot rove on greta telling us bs rethuglican ruling class sh*t
i’m trying to figure out : why proggs can stake out radical positions but stating the stupidity of the proggs is “radical”.
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So, Harry Reid couldn’t manage a budget (800-some days and counting) but trips all over himself to get the CCB vote moved up to tomorrow. Bill Wilson ‘splains things to these bastards, who have no real timely choice but to pass CCB, because Judgment Day is fast approaching…
A Democratic Party failure to appease S&(eat your)P’s would signal the beginning of the end of dirty socialisms. It’d then be a matter of picking up the peases the morning(s) after.
uncle sam never once gave it away
everybody had to pay and pay
Now if you get push-back on those phone calls-
We’re just asking the rich to pay their fair share: About 50% of the people in this country pay no federal taxes. The top 10% of income earners pay 70% of the federal taxes. That’s more than fair. The best way to increase revenue is to improve the economy. You make it harder to improve the economy, to create jobs when you raise taxes.
This is cut, cap, and kill Medicare: We are not children and we are not going to be railroaded by a fright campaign. The real truth is that the one thing that will kill Medicare is to do nothing. We need to put our financial house in order and fixing Medicare is part of that.
We just want a balanced approach: That’s just a fucking meaningless lie and you know it.
Click: Click
Alt answer to ‘balanced’… We are Taxed Enough Already.
Click.
I wonder if that was a mistake by Reid. Now we can get a first victory in the Senate by denying him 51 votes. Momentum and pressure. Do or die Friday.
Which side of the aisle is having problems getting its members to compromise?
Mirror, Mirror.
From the Hot Air piece on CNN’s poll (via Glen Reynolds):
All the more reason for the House to hold firm. They’re in the Right, and they have the support of the American People.
Video uploaded by Sen. Jim DeMint: “No More Commissions. Pass Cut, Cap & Balance.”
DeMint on Greta:
Remarkable. Remarkable that Wilson speaks directly at the problem with fiat money and then goes right on tolerating such a condition.
“Erasing trillions of dollars of wealth in the blink of an eye”, spoken with a straight face and a meek perspective, as if this is an unavoidable consequence of breathing air. No, sir, it is the consequence of shit for money, the way we got into this mess and the hook that keeps us there.
Why? Because the left can make nearly the same argument — and do so even more emphatically — but that it’s the product of not raising the debt ceiling. Too many printing presses, too many monetary games, too few natural controls.
– Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe
– Thomas Jefferson
Ok, I have phone phobia but I’m prepping myself to call Stabenow. Motionview’s little prep up there helps.
Carin – I don’t care for the phone either. I am always concerned that I will tell the Congresscritter exactly what I think of them.
You have said a million prescient, salient and downright correct statements on this here web site, but that right there is the most important, and dare I say practical, thing you might have ever said. It sums the situation up in about as succint a way as one can. I am ruled by no man and they must be shown that.
Jeff Sessions is a good man.
Heh, JD. Me, too. That is why I could never be a politician. I would reach across the desk and beat the living hell out of one of my constituents for being a dumbass. I recognize my anger issues and act accordingly.
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