Some headlines this morning:
GOP turns hard right on debt
Budget experts raise concerns over McConnell debt limit fallback plan
71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis
In case you haven’t noticed, the drumbeat has begun in earnest to blame Republicans for the failure of talks on the debt limit and any bad reaction to it from the markets.
Today’s hysteria is being generated because the GOP wants to include the unreasonable, the radical, the extreme notion that the government – eventually – should have to live within its means.
The balanced budget amendment doesn’t mandate cuts in the budget. It will force a cut in the rate of growth in government spending, gradually bringing to down to 18% of GDP – with increased GDP growth accounting for most of the difference. And the amendment says, that if you want to fund a study to find out whether the penis size of a gay man is connected to his sexual health, you have to get 2/3 of the House and Senate to agree that this is something on which the government should be spending tax dollars, if the cost of that study would cause a deficit to accrue.
Who is being unreasonable? Politico:
Final revisions made Friday submerge conservative demands to reduce all federal spending to 18 percent of gross domestic product – a target that threatened to split the GOP by requiring far deeper cuts than even the party’s April budget. But Republican congressional leaders still want a 10-year, $1.8 trillion cut from nondefense appropriations and have added a balanced-budget constitutional amendment that so restricts future tax legislation that even President Ronald Reagan might have opposed it in the 1980s.
Indeed, much of the deficit-reduction legislation signed by Reagan would not qualify under the new tea-party-driven standards. And even the famed Reagan-Tip O’Neill Social Security compromise – which raised payroll taxes – passed the House in 1983 well short of the 290 votes that would be required under the constitutional amendments being promoted by the GOP.
Would Reagan have objected to a 2/3 vote in congress to raise taxes? My guess would be that if The Gipper were swept into office with the national debt approaching $15 trillion, it is more likely that he would have supported such a plan than not. Worse, it is ridiculous to make the attempt to reach back in time and pull events forward, trying to make a lame point about how congress would have voted in any given circumstance. That’s not even good alternative history. The debt situation is 7 times more dire than it was during the 1980′s, while the deficit is 5 times larger today than it was during the Reagan administration. Only a rank partisan hack would even make the attempt to draw similarities between two extraordinarily dissimilar situations.
Read More at American Thinker by Rick Moran, American Thinker
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The Republicans need to keep in mind who put them in power in The House & not worry as much what Main Stream Media may say about them. If they fold on this issue of raising the debt ceiling then they should not stop there& just go ahead & fold their party.
Who put them in power in the house??
1oldcoyote2 you honestly can not be so stupid as to ask such a question?
Do you have a terrible empty feeling- in your head?
REALLY, are you too ignorant to answer it? Are you afraid to say it? You are cornered again. Your next response will be fun to see!!
You didn't answer the question!You made a statement, now please back it up.
You know oldcoyote I finally understand what you are saying. Who did put them in power? very good question and I see you got the usual, your stupid or something from the Queen of Brains herself, Alexia/Hot Cougar.
I don't always understand some of the stuff you write, but this is clear as a beautiful blue sky on the plains. She is stumped.
to-shay
1oldcoyote2 No! There is no way that any one with as small of a brain as yours could ever understand anything i was saying. When God was handing out intelligence as usual you were absent. Your comments at times are just rambling thoughts with no structure or meaning.
1oldcoyote2 if this response reflects your intelligence then sweetie i have news for you!
If i ever need a brain transplant, i'd choose yours because i'd want a brain that has never been used.
Thank you Ireul. She is so dumb it's actually pitiful. She's been cornered and caught lying so many times it would have to be depressing even to her.
1oldcoyote2 No! There is no way that any one with as small of a brain as yours could ever understand anything i was saying. When God was handing out intelligence as usual you were absent. Your comments at times are just rambling thoughts with no structure or meaning.
1oldcoyote2 sorry guy but i do not lie & the only one lying here is you! Is this really the best you can do? I think i will promote you from being dumb to dumber. Have you nothing to comment on other than just spitting out insults & lies? I hate to disappoint you but little weenie guys like you, ireuel & James McPherson do not depress me.
Actually i find you all very comical & wannabee men which you are not.
Sorry, old sluts, whores, yentas, and wannabe women don't impress us.
Good night.
1oldcoyote2 that is not nice to talk about the women in your family that way! I bet your wife would kick you butt!
Anyone in your family ever died right after saying,"Hey Y'all watch this."
We live in the upper mid west. That sounds like it would be from down in your part of the country.
No 1oldcoyoye we have have formal educations where you & your relatives do not.
Sorry i can't think of a insult stupid enough for you.
Read your post.
You don't have to work so hard to show your ignorance, You've proven it enough times already.
1oldcoyote2 I am communicating with a Filthy Red Neck White Trailer Trash Inbred who has brains for S–T! That person is you! Take you trashy comments & stick them right up you A–!
If you are to ignorant to understand that and try to twist it up, then I'll word it so you will understand it.
Sorry, old slut, whore and wannabe woman, you don't impress us!!!!
1oldcoyote
I do not have a attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
Why is it that your mother never saw the irony of calling you a son-of-a-bitch?
You are a very, very sick old yenta.
My dear mother never had the word in her vocabulary.
You've certainly proven jew sluts do!!
No 1oldcoyote2 your Mother & now your Wife are both known as the $2.00 Whores in Town! Your just so stupid that when they tell you they need to go out to the grocery store for the fifth time in one day you believe them.
$2.00 would be more then a slut like you would be worth for an entire army. They would all get AIDS from you even if they just looked.
GOOD BY
No 1oldcoyote2 do not be mad at me because your Wife & Mother are just Cheap $2.00 Whores!
I'm not telling you anything that you did not already know.
My brothers in fact tell me that they feel that they paid too much to be with your Wife & Moma!
ireuel you understand 1 oldcoyote2 ? Wow! You two together do not even know how to screw a light bulb in a socket. This is going to be so much fun watching you two trying to communicate with each other!
Did the aliens forget to remove the anal probe from your brain?
1oldcoyote2 it's the electorate fool!
You are so dumb that you use your outhouse to dine in.
The electorate!! That would be the 78% of the jews that voted for Obumer then. Thank you for an honest answer for a change.
Like the old Chinese adage says. "Give crook enough rope and they will hang self"
1oldcoyote2 what amazes me is how truly dumb you are! It is just so amazing to me that such people as you exist. I mean like read your comment! It is so dumb! No one can be this dumb! James McPherson are you doing your alias thing again?
Does your train of thought even have a caboose?
Just the facts, mam, just the facts. If you are too ignorant to understand them, that's your problem. I realize you were hatched without a brain and do at times feel sorry for you.
1oldcoyote2 you give facts a whole new meaning! What facts? No i am not ignorant! No i have no problem! No i was not hatched!
Now can you not see just how illiterate that you are?
No need to feel sorry for me!
If your gonna act like a dick you should wear a condom on your head so you can at least look like one!!!
So glad you brought that up.
Here is what your Talmud tells the good yenta you are to do, there is no question that you dine in your out house if you're the jew you claim to be.
Gittin 69a . To heal his flesh a jew should take dust that lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix it with honey and eat it.
Have a nice day.
1oldcoyote2 / james McPherson you are just getting filthy now! Are you so stupid that you must continue to steal from my comments to compose yours? Read your post! It is so poorly done & just stupid! You make no sense! Sorry but no i must decline the dinner invitation with you & your family in your outhouse. Did you say that you were gettin it on with some guy by doing a 69? Are you saying that you eat s–t? Gee can't you see just how difficult it is to interpret your post?
So sad! Just a old fool is what you are. You think loading a dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.
You lost me.It must be the drugs you're on. You are so far out nobody can understand what you're mumbling about.
No 1oldcoyote2 if you would stay out of a wine bottle you would understand just fine.
It's better 1oldcoyote2 to let people think you are a idiot than to prove it by making post on this site for everyone to read.
Don't bring me into this, Cougar. I think both you and oldcoyote are childish fools who get too much enjoyment out of foul-mouthed bickering. I grant that s/he is nastier than you are, but neither of you is someone I'd be remotely interested in knowing better.
James McPherson you lying S.-.-! You have no idea what you have brought down on yourself tonight! I find you disgusting & not much of a man at all. The only childish fool on this site is none other than you. A Coward who hides be-
hind aliases to insult people on a level of which one would have to say is Filth! Trust me when i say trash like you I do not associate with.
I did not make any comments about family members, living or deceased, nor would I. For you to associate me with the lying foul-mouthed oldcoyote–with whom I have disagreed about virtually everything for months–is libel. You owe me an apology.
Screw you James! Sorry no apology from me! you crossed the line with me! Deal with it! Man up!
Neweditor/Caleb: I realize that it is a waste of time on this site to bother reporting, but this person keeps threatening me while accusing me of posting comments under another name–which I have never done. You should be able to confirm that and to resolve the issue before more harm arises, but you probably won't.
James i gave you all of their phone numbers! Call them!
Why don't you call them?
James it is so obvious that you put yourself in this position. Instead of you
responding to me as you usually do by using your name you chose instead to use a alias & proceeded to spew Filth at me in your comments. You have displayed on this site the White Trash that you really are. Just like most Liberals when I bettered you on the issues & debate in general you resort to name calling on the lowest degree of Filth & Gutter Talk.
I made no such comments about family members, living or deceased, nor would I. For you to associate me with the lying foul-mouthed oldcoyote–with whom I have disagreed about virtually everything for months–is libel. You owe me an apology.
Go for it James! Try & man up if you can?
Neweditor/Caleb: I realize that it is a waste of time on this site to bother reporting, but this person keeps threatening me while accusing me of posting comments under another name–which I have never done. You should be able to confirm that and to resolve the issue before more harm arises, but you probably won't.
Call them James! I gave you all of their numbers.
You toad, "Today’s hysteria is being generated because the GOP wants to include the unreasonable, the radical, the extreme notion that the government – eventually – should have to live within its means."
Were you trying to be clever Mr. NewsEditor toad? I really don't like to being lied to. Oh, you call it sarcasm! You write like a toad.
donjusko please explain so i can better understand ? I may be wrong but i think possibly Rick Moron
was trying to show in his own way how ridiculous it is to put the blame on the Republicans. Please give me your opinion just in case i am misreading his intent?
thanks
Rick Moron said "Today’s hysteria is being generated because the GOP wants to include the unreasonable, the radical, the extreme notion that the government – eventually – should have to live within its means."
I wasn't being too harsh on Rick, I don't like (really don't like) sarcasms.
Is this unreasonable, radical or extreme? Or is it common sense that isn't being listened to? Calling this unreasonable or radical or extreme would be from the negative side that I am against. That puts it in the sarcastic side, like I said, I don't like sarcasm. So what is his intent? To fool some of the people some of the time? Or is he just a lame author.
Just because the rest of the article was well written isn't going to let him off easily, I expect more and sarcasm isn't in the picture. Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
donjusko thank you for your opinion.
Heaven forbid, the Government should have to only spend the money they have. If they cut out all Foriegn Aid, got out of the UN, quit giving freebees to Illegals, cut out the Pork (now ear marks) , even the trade balance, the problem would be solved in no time, however that is not going to happen, because the old incumbants of both parties don't want change. They could care less about the USA & the Legal working class; all they care about is themselves. I believe they talk just to hear their heads rattle. I bet they will not fix anything at all, but will lie to the people again, & the majority will swallow it hook line & sinker.