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If President Obama truly is not willing to see the American people “get harmed” in the case that the GOP holds them “hostage,” he is going to get fleeced when the debt ceiling inevitably needs to be raised sometime next spring. There are enough Republicans, especially Tea Party-supported freshmen, who might be willing to take the nation’s debt hostage if put to it.
The example of Tom Coburn is illustrative. It’s hard to square Coburn’s support for the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission’s revenue-raising proposals with his track record and his campaign promises to keep taxes low, unless you give credit to his statements that he considers the mounting debt an existential threat to the country. I think that his recent impassioned speech before the deficit commission on the need to reduce the debt lends credence to his threats to block the debt limit increase:
Obviously Mike Crapo, who also backs the commission’s proposal, is thinking something along the same lines, as are Jim DeMint, Mike Lee of Utah, and a number of other Republicans. If Obama’s liberal base found his tax compromise unacceptable, they might be in for another betrayal when it comes time to raise the debt limit.
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DRed| 12.7.10 @ 5:28PM
So what did Coburn think about possibly raising taxes in order to avoid adding to the debt?
The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 12.7.10 @ 7:28PM
We took a shellacking, DRed. Stop me DRed before I give some tax cuts to the rich. Don't let me do it. I am suffering from a form of the Stockholm syndrome. I hang around rich people all the time and now I just want to help them so they can play more golf with me. Help me stop myself. Let the Lame Duck be the Lame Duck. Nobody believed me when I said it was the summer of recovery but now everybody knows that it was. As long as it is bad lets make it worse. That is what my gay nanny used to say. The only jobs program that I have that worked was the catch and release program at Gitmo. A lot of those people went and got their old jobs back. And they said the jobs were gone for good. I work in mysterious ways. I hope all the conservatives notice how we deal with our enemies. You let your wikki-leak and we will put a whole squad of feminist bomb shells all over you. No condom= rape is the rule of law in the leftist world. It is a lot more fun than water boarding or rendition but you will still end up in permanent jail just the same. At least we got the the extension to unemployment benefits. When people think green jobs they need to think unemployment benefits. People with no jobs are very green. We bringing America back, the chickens are coming home to roost. Rendition for all Republicans, baby.
John - TMF| 12.7.10 @ 5:46PM
Ok.. use it.
Oil hit $90 a barrel today, courtesy of The One and his Green Marxist Loon Machine. Did anyone notice that less than a week after the announcement that the Energy Department is putting the American energy industry out of business the price of a barrel of oil has skyrocketed?
Well the Obamasites of the Peoples Republics of the Northeast are about to find out how stupid they are.
By late winter as the north east is buried in snow and ice from another bad winter and the heating bills pile up I figure that Congress will be able to end the limits on drilling almost everywhere.
If we have $4.00+ a gallon for gas, and even higher fuel oil prices, the economy will stay crippled, and inflation will eat away what isn't frozen.
"Gee Bamster... want the debt ceiling raised? Drill Baby Drill!!!!"
r/TMF
Answers1| 12.8.10 @ 2:35AM
Shutting down the government would be the best thing possible for the USA...it would get rid of our spending problem almost immediately.
martin j smith| 12.8.10 @ 8:19AM
When Republican_tea partiers get their gonads tell Obama where to stuff his spending, the LEFT will riot in the streets. I will bet on that, Then Obama will say I alone can bring "peace" to our nation. Its not that I think steps should not be done--its that I think one has to think ahead and understand the inherent violence of Marxists and attitude and deed including the one currently in the White House. Its beyond trust but verify. Its more like" Be prepared".