Just saw this on Twitter: 2 great columns from conservative writer David Brooks of NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/opinion/05brooks.html?_r=1 and http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19brooks.html
Thanks for posting that amigo. Can't argue with any of it. I will only add that those that will "blame" this on republicans for refusing to compromise will be the same ones that do not understand that we just CANNOT give the government any more money. I know lasalle will be here shortly to point out how many times we raised the limit in the last 10 years. So what. We are in the now and have to take a different COA. Isn't insanity defined as doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result? Well if it didn't work all those previous times...
do not compromise. compromise is for losers. taxes should not be raised on anyone, case closed. i know republicans are basically te same as democrats. but in this case the republicans are clearly heroes. no compromise.
NOBODY IS CLEAN ON THIS. IT'S EVERYBODY'S FAULT. Obama and Dums couldn't pass a budget when they held the keys to congress - for all of 2010!! It was due a year ago. They got nerve talking about can kicking. I mean DAMN!!:dis: The Repubes are leaderless and fractured; but really so are the Dums. Speaking of leaderless, the Pres has been a no show on this problem until recently. He stuck his head in the sand for so long it's a wonder he hasn't suffacated. After the budget battle in the spring both sides said 'Yeh, that was tough, but the debt ceiling fight will be worse'. And now nobody is clean on this, both sides are playing political Russian roulette waiting for the other side to take the bullet. I dispise them all. It's like having to choose between Edwards and Duke all over again. :cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss:
There is a time for compromise and a time to stand firm. Democrats want big government. They get elected by growing government and trading votes for government services. Many Republicans have done the same thing to a lesser extent. The federal government has grown far beyond the size and scope ever intended by the creators and the United States is on the verge of collapse due to one thing only. Massive spending. You don't solve the problem by spending more. You make the necessary cuts and decrease the size and scope of government. You left-wingers don't have the first clue about what Republicans want nor most Americans. Republicans were overwhelmingly swept back into power as a direct rebuke of Obama's big government, intrusive spending policies. The Tea Party movement is the Republican party's saving grace. It got independents back into the fold because they stand for real change against the status quo of big government spending Democrats and Republicans. Tea party candidates stood and stand for something most real Republicans and independents have craved for years. Adults with principles and who would stop the bleeding and spending. The Republicans are compromising by passing a debt limit increase they are truly against so they are t least demanding the appropriate fiscal responsibility to go along with it. Enough is enough and if the ******* we have for a President wants to throw the country into default because he's unwilling to accept long needed cuts to the federal government, then it's on him and no one else. And ever dip**** who voted for him will have only themselves to blame because they were warned about this socialist before he was elected. Time to take your medicine America. There are some grownups in charge now.
Lasalle will wake up around noon and come in here kicking and screaming. Red will have to give him a bottle to suck on. If he has no bottle red will have to break out his pacifier.
Nonsense. The US is nowhere near in danger of collapsing. You couldn't back up this horsechit to save your life. This is just right-wing DJ talk trying whip up hysteria. What a laugh. :lol: No, you attack the problem from both ends if you are serious about it. We have very different ideas on who doesn't have a clue, Hoss. Overwhelmingly? In Power? You've got a slight majority in one house of Congress and you don;t have the white house. :insane: The Tea party is alienating moderates right now who see them as an obstacle to compromise and getting the friggin' job done. Gingrich thought that in 1993 and it hurt the GOP badly. Republicans are already bailing because they know that they are the ones that are being perceived as the obstructionists here. They make NO TAX pledges which prevent them from playing any role in a solution. The democrats have offered as much a 4 $Trillion in spending cuts to cherished social programs and the republicans have offered zero. It is impossible to defend this to a disgusted piublic who wants the government to fucntion instead of engaging in partisan warfare. Obama is in charge, obviously. And the democrats stopped making concessions last week. It clearly gains them no republican concessions. So the ball is in the GOP's court and they are going to trip over their peckers.
Wake up around noon? Don't hate because I can smoke and you can't. What would Martin say, why don't you go find a job that doesn't drug test. You are in America and free to choose whatever you want.