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When both the Tea Party AND the Progressives are against a deal you know that deal has a problem.
This latest deal is no deal at all.
The first stage of cuts calls for 900 billion or so over ten years.
That's only 90 billion in cuts a year. That's all that's guaranteed.
It requires a bipartisan bicameral committee to deliver a package of a further 1.2 trillion in proposed cuts before Thanksgiving.
However, it does NOT require that to be voted on and passed by Congress or Obama.
If they don't deliver these recommendations it triggers an automatic 1.2 trillion in spending cuts but HALF of those are defense cuts, essentially holding the security of the nation hostage to a group of 12 Congresscritters.
It requires a VOTE on a Balanced Budget Amendment. It does not require that vote must pass.
It does nothing to address tax reform.
It raises the debt ceiling by 2.5 trillion, enough to get past the 2012 elections and guarantee the D.C. douches need not deal with this again before running to keep their jobs.
And there is the reason for the deal. Not because they have the interests of the country at heart.
They just don't want to join the unemployment line. The line they have been working very hard to avoid talking about and dealing with.
Michele Bachmann is against it and will vote so.
Lindsey Graham is against it.
Rand Paul is against it.
Waffles II is against it.
And Mike Lee is really against it.
As for the idiot pundits saying the American People are the winner here, I call bullshit.
"They're tired of hearing about it" they say. "Don't put us through this anymore" "We're tired of this fight."
The American People are a whole lot tougher than that. They want it done right, not fast. They're tired of the fighting maybe but not so much that they no longer care about their future and the future of their children. And they don't care a flying fig about whether Boehner and Reid and Obama are trying to keep their jobs.
We didn't forge and preserve this nation by taking the easy road.
What say you?
- Outlines Of Debt Compromise Emerge
Major Garrett at the National Journal … Here are the outlines of a debt-ceiling deal that congressional leaders and the Obama White House are firming up in preparation for a possible announcement as early as Sunday afternoon. In many respects, the...
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There is no way ANYONE can spin this as being actually a good thing by looking at the big picture. Like the Repub idiot on Fox right now saying Boehner has reversed the spending ship in the long run. America does not have time to wait for the long run...
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The only reason they'd change and vote against it now is because they fear for their jobs in 2012. The Daily Caller: The Right revolts against Boehner’s budget deal? After initially drawing praise for extracting spending concessions while averting...
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Just Like I Said ('cept I said it better) Dick Morris: IT’S NO DEAL, IT’S A SELLOUT By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always...
- The Chickenshits Caved!
Boehner played chicken and flinched. NO defunding of Planned Parenthood. NO reigning in of the EPA. NO defunding of Obamacare. ONLY $38 billion in cuts. That's equal to the American cost of only 19 days in Libya. $500 billion over ten years. TEN YEARS....
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Sold Out
When both the Tea Party AND the Progressives are against a deal you know that deal has a problem.
This latest deal is no deal at all.
The first stage of cuts calls for 900 billion or so over ten years.
That's only 90 billion in cuts a year. That's all that's guaranteed.
It requires a bipartisan bicameral committee to deliver a package of a further 1.2 trillion in proposed cuts before Thanksgiving.
However, it does NOT require that to be voted on and passed by Congress or Obama.
If they don't deliver these recommendations it triggers an automatic 1.2 trillion in spending cuts but HALF of those are defense cuts, essentially holding the security of the nation hostage to a group of 12 Congresscritters.
It requires a VOTE on a Balanced Budget Amendment. It does not require that vote must pass.
It does nothing to address tax reform.
It raises the debt ceiling by 2.5 trillion, enough to get past the 2012 elections and guarantee the D.C. douches need not deal with this again before running to keep their jobs.
And there is the reason for the deal. Not because they have the interests of the country at heart.
They just don't want to join the unemployment line. The line they have been working very hard to avoid talking about and dealing with.
Michele Bachmann is against it and will vote so.
Lindsey Graham is against it.
Rand Paul is against it.
Waffles II is against it.
And Mike Lee is really against it.
As for the idiot pundits saying the American People are the winner here, I call bullshit.
"They're tired of hearing about it" they say. "Don't put us through this anymore" "We're tired of this fight."
The American People are a whole lot tougher than that. They want it done right, not fast. They're tired of the fighting maybe but not so much that they no longer care about their future and the future of their children. And they don't care a flying fig about whether Boehner and Reid and Obama are trying to keep their jobs.
We didn't forge and preserve this nation by taking the easy road.
What say you?
- Outlines Of Debt Compromise Emerge
Major Garrett at the National Journal … Here are the outlines of a debt-ceiling deal that congressional leaders and the Obama White House are firming up in preparation for a possible announcement as early as Sunday afternoon. In many respects, the...
-
There is no way ANYONE can spin this as being actually a good thing by looking at the big picture. Like the Repub idiot on Fox right now saying Boehner has reversed the spending ship in the long run. America does not have time to wait for the long run...
-
The only reason they'd change and vote against it now is because they fear for their jobs in 2012. The Daily Caller: The Right revolts against Boehner’s budget deal? After initially drawing praise for extracting spending concessions while averting...
-
Just Like I Said ('cept I said it better) Dick Morris: IT’S NO DEAL, IT’S A SELLOUT By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always...
- The Chickenshits Caved!
Boehner played chicken and flinched. NO defunding of Planned Parenthood. NO reigning in of the EPA. NO defunding of Obamacare. ONLY $38 billion in cuts. That's equal to the American cost of only 19 days in Libya. $500 billion over ten years. TEN YEARS....