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Another Perspective
Here’s the Deal
There’s a preferable alternative to shutting the government down — ask Sens. DeMint and Toomey.
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Republicans also must find the wisdom and courage to coalesce around a deal breaker of their own, which cannot be one among the Democrats’ deal breakers and also must receive unanimous backing by every Republican in both Houses. The only rider in the mix that can satisfy both conditions is the Vitter/DeMint/Toomey debt-limit restoration rider.
So, here’s the deal. House Speaker Boehner finds a House sponsor for the Vitter/DeMint/Toomey debt-limit restoration amendment and enlarges the class of Big Riders from four to five in the House. He then lets Senate Majority Leader Reid know the House intends to pass all five of its Big Riders but they all will be subject to negotiation in the House-Senate Conference Committee on the bill.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader McConnell lets Majority Leader Reid know Republicans will demand another vote on the Vitter/DeMint/Toomey debt-limit amendment to the CR when it comes to the Senate floor. Further, McConnell tells Reid that even if that amendment fails on the Senate floor, Republican conferees nevertheless will support Democrat conferees in dropping four of House’s five Big Riders if Senate Democrat conferees in turn support the House’s debt limit restoration rider.
In Conference, the House recedes to the Senate position on the original Big Four House riders (i.e., strips them from the bill) while the Senate recedes, if necessary, to the House position on the debt-limit rider, keeping it in the bill.
Go ahead, Republicans, offer Democrats this deal they can’t refuse.
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Michael L. Hauschild| 3.31.11 @ 6:25AM
I must admit that I am skeptical about the debt cutting intentions of any member of the beltway chosen. My magnitude of skepticism is only found one other place and for exactly the same reason. It is exhibited by the prostitute who is confronted by a bargain basement John wanting a fifty percent discount with the explanation that he will only put it in halfway.
potkas7| 3.31.11 @ 7:05AM
Sorry, but I don't see where this is a solution to anything. So long as there is a mechanism for raising the debt ceiling it WILL be raised. Every dime of government spending has a constituency and politicians of all stripes will do whatever they must to avoid alienating an organized bloc of votes. Gimmicks and Gimcracks are not a substitute for governance.
logmank| 3.31.11 @ 7:50AM
No, Mr. Hunter, HERE'S the deal. The President has proposed a spending program of $3.7 trillion, which is $1.5 trillion more than projected revenues.
We are on the Titanic and we have struck the iceberg. Strategizing about how to avoid losing political points is akin to rearranging the deck chairs.
There is one - ONE - member on each side of our legislature that has proposed balancing the budget and those proposals have been greeted with peals of silence from the rest of the morons on the hill.
We are talking about the preservation of the republic, idiot. Let's not worry about who looks good to the media and the public.
Michael Tomlinson| 3.31.11 @ 9:10AM
Sounds like a deal for House and Senate Republicans to agree upon and demand for their votes to keep funding the gov't. Also proves we're the ones working to save Social Security from the party that stole most our money.
Anthony| 3.31.11 @ 9:48AM
The only thing these feckless, weak kneed Rs have finally figured out is that the "people are indeed ahead of them on this issue". No kidding, morons. Congrats, you got one right!!!
These hapless saps can't even get their hands around the message; they still allow the Ds and the LSM to label this as a "government shutdown". It is no such thing when 60% of the government, the vital services, if you will, are still up and running.
Is there nobody in the R leadership capable of making this simple yet vital point? Lord!!, you got that slime ball Schumer on tape making the R case for them, that the Ds are nothing more than vile liars, and still Boehner remains silent.
Well, you clowns are going to learn an even greater, ruder lesson, about how much more the American people are truly ahead of you.
The Washington bubble is about to burst. Say good-bye to business as usual. In fact, say good-bye to your hapless careers and prepare to get real jobs.
Johyn| 3.31.11 @ 10:17AM
Republicans, wisdom and courage. Are you kidding? Hey pal, the gop is known, and for good reason, as the stupid party and courage, well there are only a handfull that I would allow in my foxhole. No, this sounds like another, " lets go along to get along" strategy. Simply put, the GOP gets scared and the dems win!
Ken in Tyler| 3.31.11 @ 10:28AM
Is there a single statesman left or all they just politicians now? Sure, making deals and compromising can sound like progress is being made but we don't have the luxury of slow progress. Our debased fiat currency is on the road to collapse and the left believes the time for shedding blood in defense of the status quo has arrived. Investors are fleeing treasuries and foreign governments are quietly reducing their financial stake in our nation. Just what will it take for someone besides the Paul family to tell the American people the jig is up?
I want desperately to believe that the Republic can be restored but the light at the end of the tunnel gets dimmer by the day.
Mt Top Patriot| 3.31.11 @ 11:10AM
Makes sense. Thing is it works only if rational minds and a unified Republican front has the balls and druthers to pull it of.
I'm not going to hold my breath on that.
nofreelunch| 3.31.11 @ 11:11AM
If Harry Reid can accept it, I'm against it.
Kermit H| 3.31.11 @ 11:18AM
We need to forget all this BS and stand on principles needed to keep our republic. Shut the government down!
Joe D.| 3.31.11 @ 2:48PM
You are dead wrong on this and that is why people like you in the Senate need to wake up. The American people are ready for a shutdown (it is not a complete shutdown anyway) if necessary do get these riders past. The 2 for sure are what the American people want and will not be satified if not past. The Obamacare and EPA riders. The others they want as well but it may be harder to get. So we throw 4 at them and settle for the 2.
PattyMor| 3.31.11 @ 2:58PM
I always said that the real battle is over the debt celing raise. The current budget is just a skirmish in the big battle. And, its the ultimate leverage.
No debt celing raise; hence no spending. Its brilliant.
David Farrar | 3.31.11 @ 4:30PM
As far as I am concerned, at the end of the day $61 billion had better be cut out of the 20011 budget or even more RINO heads will roll.
ex animo
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David Farrar | 3.31.11 @ 4:31PM
Make that the 2011 budget.
ex animo
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Quartermaster| 3.31.11 @ 5:48PM
Let Reid bring it on. To paraphrase a great American, Shut 'er down!
Frisbee| 3.31.11 @ 9:36PM
Thanks for the interesting insights Mr Hunter. I certainly hope Boehner does not back down. He must realize that the reason he has the Speaker's chair is precisely because the people want someone to stand up to the obamatons.
LibertyAtStake | 4.1.11 @ 2:34PM
The problem with this byzantine proposal is it misses one fundamental point: the Donkey party is ANGLING for a shut down because they think its a good re-election strategy. They are wrong. We should give them this fight, and beat them into the dirt while it's on.
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Rush Youngberg| 4.2.11 @ 12:19AM
Bunk. The House by itself can stop all legislation, initiate all legislation and defund any legislation. Bonehead is trying to intimidate his own party. He will be cast aside in 2012.
pohknee| 4.4.11 @ 12:19PM
The House needs to develop the budget they consider appropriate and send it to the Senate. The Senate can accept or reject it and thereby implement or start the shutdown. The decision would lie in the Senate where it belongs. Harry Reid and company can say what they want but the lack of action would be self apparent leaving the Senate to explain the situation.
Christian Louboutin | 6.23.11 @ 3:58AM
It is true, as the Post contends, that "limping along" on a series of stopgap funding extensions has been "a hassle to negotiate, with the two parties bickering over spending cuts for little benefit
sex toys | 7.4.11 @ 1:17AM
The fact that Trump has come out against the Korea-U.S. trade deal and this week's pulling of a vote on a trade deal in the House by the leadership shows there a very fluid House GOP caucus against the kind of trade deals which benefit only corporate interests and infringe upon U.S. sovereignty
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 11:07PM
is good