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Republicants: Wake up and Do Something
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Anonymous
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...other than say "no".
Obama has you schooled. Sorry, but it's true. You played this game of chicken over the budget, and you lost. You couldn't sell your own Medicare plan to your fellow Congressmen, much less the public. You can't find a way out of this debt ceiling stalemate that doesn't screw over your own party. But Obama is not just some evil political manipulator who you underestimated. He is giving you something you want, something a Republican President can never do: reform Social Security and Medicare. He already has the AARP lined up for the first time in history, he'll have the Dems behind him, and for once we can fix some things without everyone in office committing political suicide. If you care, you'll do something. You had a great run as the party of "No". But you can't live on "No" forever. He's moving to the middle. Don't be stupid and dig your heels in. Reagan didn't. You shouldn't, either. |
Anonymous
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Did you mean to write RepublicanTs?
If so, I think it may change the meaning of your post. |
Anonymous
| How is that working out for ya now? |
Anonymous
They still can't say yes to anything. Even their own presidential candidates are voting down their own proposals. Boehner does not have control of the house votes, so he can't offer any compromise. So all they can do is throw up bills that are dead on arrival. Which is to say they are doing nothing. |
Anonymous
This afternoon at 4:30, Boehner will present his plan in a conference call to his House colleagues. Maybe there will be enough yes in it to make him the hero of the debt ceiling crisis. Or maybe not. |
Anonymous
| He's only a hero if he has the votes. |
Anonymous
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OK well it's 8 PM.
Boehner punted. Or I guess to put it in his terms, he took a drop. Obama put together YET ANOTHER plan with the Dems. This time it's 2.5 trillion in cuts with NO tax increase. Face it, the Republicans can't agree among themselves about what to do. They are worthless. The Tea Party has crippled them. |
Anonymous
| This is exhausting. These people are just playing with us while we wait for the axe to fall. |
Anonymous
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Boehner is going to put together another bandaid, like that oh-so-successful $39 billion cut that really did nothing.
Now he wants to do a small cut and get together a bipartisan commission to figure out the long term. How many goddamn bipartisan commissions do we need? WTF?? Didn't we just have the Simpson-Bowles commission? And the gang of six? What does he expect from another commission? He's doing everything he can to dodge a permanent solution. This is incredible. The democrats offered a $4 trillion dollar plan with $1 Trillion in new revenues. They are offering a $2.7 trillion plan with no new revenues. The only thing they won't do is to offer a complete band-aid that makes us go through the same freaking thing in twelve months. Boehner has got to pull it together and get someone behind something. This is crazy. If he can't take a $2.7 trillion dollar spending cut handed to him on a silver platter, with NO NEW TAXES, he's done for. |
Anonymous
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Sooooo...
Obama is offering a plan that cuts $2.7 Trillion with no tax increase. Boehner counters with a plan that cuts $1.2 Trillion with no tax increase. John, you are headed for the wrong goal! Turn around! |
Anonymous
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Look, Obama doesn't even need to shoot down Boehner's plan. His own house members are already doing it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/cut-cap-and-balance-coalition-pans-boehners-debt-ceiling-proposal/2011/07/25/gIQAzB6FZI_blog.html?hpid=z1 |
Anonymous
| I am so happy to see Boehner show some leadership and stand up to Obama. Anyone who believes in Obama's "balanced" approach doesn't see what's coming. He's talking about increasing taxes on the middle and upper class with "speculative" budget cuts later on (read never). Wake up liberals, Obama wants to steal your child's future to create a welfare state. |
Anonymous
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Boehner has no idea what to do next. He wants a "bipartisan commission". What, like another one on top of Simpson-Bowles, the Gang of Six, and his own meetings with the President? Here's Boehner's deficit reduction work to date: *$39 billion in immediate cost savings, almost scuttled over abortion, and it turned out the savings were a sham. *Cut, Cap, and Balance - his own party's presidential candidates voted against it. The Cut, Cap, and Balance Coalition did not support it. *Now he wants to put a bandaid out there, trot out a new blue ribbon commission to replace the old blue ribbon commission, and do this thing all over again next year. |
Anonymous
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Boehner just pulled the vote on his plan for tomorrow. Apparently it is coming up short. He either needs to find another $150 billion to make his number or cut the new debt ceiling by $150 billion, which will put the next debate too close i the future. And he still doesn't know who is going to back the plan.
Boehner's only decent move is to make a strategic shift away from the tea partiers. It means sacrificing the white house and turning the mainstream GOP into a swing vote. But he can crack the back of the tea party, and I bet he is starting to realize that this is something he has to face one way or another. |
Anonymous
| New flash, the democrats will cave. Remember the conservatives have a louder voice in the media then the liberal do. Look at where we are at, all cuts, no new revenues. Good luck selling the cuts to the public. |