Tea Party Should Not Squander It's Momentum By Stabbing Boehner in the Back

Update: The debt deal passed the Congress. Obama signed it into law. I am embarrassed today to have succumbed to supporting this piece of shit as discussed below. It seemed like the right thing to do and it ultimately pissed off the far left which is good, but it also pissed off the Tea Party which is not. The country spends too much money. This doesn't help much at all.

I support the Tea Party. I attended the big protest in D.C., supported the local protests and was involved during the November 2010 election. But today they are getting on my nerves. This country needs to move past this debt ceiling impasse. At some point you are going to have to compromise. The Tea Party needs to allow the GOP to take this victory. The Boehner plan sucks but it does no good to stab the man in the heart just to make your point.

Yes I believe in principals. I understand that some of these representatives are standing for their principals. But in doing so the potential for unwinding the victories in Nov 2010 and seeing Obama win in 2012 are real. take the victory today and work on getting another down the road.

Look if it wasn’t for the Tea Party we wouldn’t be having this conversation. They would have raised the debt limit with no strings and just kept on spending, probably adding taxes and driving us down the socialist road. But some of these reps have got to not be so rigid. It’s a long fight. We don’t have to win it all today. You can't change the government immediately. The Tea Party is squandering it's momentum with this ill-advised squabble with Boehner.

I believe that the leadership, Boehner, Issa, Ryan, Pence, West, etc., are all doing what they can in a political shitpile. What else can they possibly do? Nothing they pass will make it through the Senate or past the Presidential robo veto pen.

I don't believe that the government should raise the debt ceiling. In a perfect world we wouldn't have to. In a perfect world the Socialists and leftists would not be in the Senate and we could actually cut spending, reduce strangling regulations and grow the economy, getting people back to work and paying taxes. But that isn't reality.

We have to defeat them when we can. With the Boehner plan we can once again defeat them. We did during the Cut, Cap and Balance plan and we can do it again. But stabbing the Speaker in the back by not even  voting on something is just wrong. Let's send Boehner's plan to the Senate and make them the shit heads. As it is the Tea Party and rigid reps are pissing people off. We simply do not have the power with the Tea Party to fully control this debate. Take the fucking victory that you can!

 

Debt Madness

The politics of the moment are quite revolting. The debt ceiling "debate" is one that everyone should get but few of the clowns in Washington are willing to make the right choices. The statists want to continue to spend taxpayer and borrowed money. Those with a brain do not. The House passed the Cut, Cap and Balance bill much to the chagrin of most Liberals. The Senate won't vote for it. The President will definitely not sign it into law. The games that are played in DC are simply retarded. The right could vote on a bill stating that we all have a right to breathe oxygen and the left would vote against it simply because it was the right's idea. The inverse is true as well.

Our country is broke. It borrows more money than it takes in. There is not a revenue problem, unless you want to throw in that 50% of the county's citizens pay no taxes. There is a spending problem. Most States in this country have to balance their budgets or things shut down. See Minnesota the last few weeks. Most households cut back when the revenue is not there. They (usually) don't buy more than they can pay for. Credit card idiots notwithstanding.

Columnist John Hayward sums it up best from The Patriot Post:

The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they collected, in just this year alone, say the problem is that private citizens are not paying enough. ... [B]ecause the political class has made the national debt so high, it is able to insist that taking a chance on the power of liberty is an irresponsible gamble. Because the government lives so far beyond its means, it would be irresponsible to provide it with reduced means. This is how we have reached the madness of a moment when the national debt is used as an argument against spending reductions, or growth-oriented tax and regulatory policies. The insane problem becomes a weapon against rational solutions.

Hypocrite in Chief on the Debt Ceiling

There was a time when dear leader MaObama did not find it a good idea to raise the debt ceiling. That was when his big government brother Bush was raising the limit during his term. Seems raising the debt limit is only a good idea when your party is in power. Patriot Post uncovers this statement from MaObama when he was a senator in 2006:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

Hypocrite, thy name is Barack.