The American Spectator

Bob K.| 8.2.11 @ 8:11AM

Come 2012 it will still be the economy, Stupid, as Clinton was fond of saying.

Clint| 8.2.11 @ 8:18AM

Norquist Forgot To Tell Us Somethin'.

Dr.Ron Paul,
“Furthermore, despite the claims of the bill’s proponents, there is nothing to stop the commission from recommending tax increases."

We Tea Party Patriots Are Taking Names & Numbers.

Stand In Rebellion.

Bob Grant| 8.2.11 @ 8:37AM

Clint,

They can recommend 'till the cows come home. It still must be passed by both chambers, as per usual rules.

burt| 8.2.11 @ 8:59AM

What a load of pure BS .
Its was a grand victory for the K street boys Mitch and John and all their former aides who work as lobbyists ! Our wild spending must continue to flow to GE, Rand Corp, Kaiser, GM, ......

Vic| 8.2.11 @ 9:19AM

Big win for Republicans, big loss for the American people. We are the now guaranteed to become Greeks. Plant taters n corn folks. Its gonna get tight in the coming years after the collapse.

ncatty| 8.2.11 @ 9:20AM

I guess we will have to pass it to find out what is in it. (Where have I heard that before?)

Derek Leaberry| 8.2.11 @ 9:26AM

Conservatives are told to be happy with pretend budget cuts. Republicans can declare victory but the can is being kicked down the road again. Conservatives might as well sit out 2012.

LarryK| 8.2.11 @ 9:43AM

A win?
What do you call defeat?

Solo| 8.2.11 @ 10:21AM

2012 is our last hope in my view. Much beyond that the damage already visited upon our future by this regime, combined with the now blatantly obvious collusion of the republican establishment, will have sealed our fate for all time. And that's assuming that it's not too late already.

If the American electorate hasn't awakened by then, they never will until the music stops.

Wayne | 8.2.11 @ 11:49AM

Watching the stocks drop another 100 points today, I am not sure what the win is. Remember how we were told that unless we increased the debt limit the stock market would sink? Hmmm.

So we just had the largest go ahead in borrowing in US history, only one year after the previous largest go ahead.

We were inflicted with fear of a stock market collapse, we were told the GOP would be blamed. We were told that the Tea Party could not govern and full of Hobbits, because they stood on principal (apparently a vice in Washington). Now we are told everything is hunky- dorry as there are still no jobs, and we are probably in the second dip of the recession. But all is well because now Congress can take a 5 week vacation and Obama can go back to raising money for 2012.

CalMark| 8.2.11 @ 1:42PM

Norquist has ZERO credibility. He went over to the Ruling Class "dark side" a long time ago.

Sad to say, every time I hear a Norquist statement these days, I predispose myself to take the opposite side.

Grzmlyk| 8.2.11 @ 1:49PM

We we are driving a Ferrari headlong into a brick wall at 200 mph and this entire deal amounts not even to tapping the brakes - it's a glance AT the brakes.

The fix is in, folks: I don't care who we send to DC, the culture will never change. The cancer of the Nanny State will continue to metastasize until the patient - this country - is dead.

If anyone doesn't think it's over for America after this capitulation to a wild spending spree that has no end, you are in denial. Or a Democrat.

When the dust settles after we completely implode, there will be Paul Krugman and the rest of the progressive survivors emerging from their bomb shelters tut-tutting that we just didn't give the horse enough poison, and that's why it died.

Socialism has won.

Oldefarte| 8.2.11 @ 1:54PM

As indicated this deal stinks worse than a dead skunk, and its only accompolishments are possibly avoid a credit rating downgrade and a slowing down of governmental spending. There will be no true solutions to this problem if/until the taxpayers begin voting intelligently. While arguing with some here, its now obvious to me that some of you apparently either don't understand the significant differences between Republicans and Democrats or simply know but refuse to acknowledge that difference. The essential tipping point of this problem when this nation elected its current president in November of 2008. Its still dumbfounding to me that this even occurred, as he was/is the most liberal senator/politician that the Democratic Party contained. Previously, a political war occurred within their party between the liberal faction [ie the Kennedys] and the moderate faction [the Clintons], and the former won the battle and thereafter financed and promoted our current president. Their party was well aware however that they could not win the WH without disguising their liberal candidate and propagandizing him as a average, justlike you, everyman [which was a complete falsehood designed to get him votes and elected president]. The American public was brainwashed by them and their minions within the MSM, and the public voted STUPIDLY for this extremist, radical street-merchant from Chicago [who cut his political teeth with Acorn type political corruption]. The public was bombarded with their HOPE & CHANGE bullexcrement and bout it hook,line and sinker. When he came out of his liberal political closet and revealed himself as to the radical that he was/is by conspiring with Pilosi, Reid and other liberal Democrats, the tea party nation was established over the outrage resulting from same. Getting back to my point, the American public [and especially some of these tea partiers] still don't obviously have the ability to see these liberal Democrats for who/what they are and are still being brainwashed. They're combining all DC politicians into a THEM category, instead of making a useful distintinction between the parties and their platforms. These DC Repuublicans are lackadasical and forgetful of the fact that they owe their allegiance to their constituent-voters back home, but they are not Democrats. These Kennedyisk Democrats now have full control of their party and are ruthless and don't give a damn about anthing other than their own political power. They are in the political control of our government [again thanks to our voting stupidity in 2008] and they have/will cram down America's throats their social legislation that causes the present defecit/debt at the expence of taxpayers. They conspiratorially use their gained governmental power to institute social/welfare legislation in order to enlarge the public's dependency upon governmental services and to correspondingly force the voters to re-elect them in return for their granting of this welfare. When the tea partiers refuse to acknowledge the party differences, they are playing right into the Democrats' desired intentions and playbook. Since there are only two parties, if the tea partiers reject Republicans and vote instead for Democrats [as they did in November of 2008 for the current Democrat president], then the Democratic Party has once again succeeded in brainwashing America. I understand tea partiers and all of us conservatives' frustration with this semi-worthless debt deal, but understand that the only solution desirable will come in November of next year if you elect more conservative Republicans to replace current Democrats DC office holders. If the Senate and the WH come into Republican hands/control, then your desired budget reduction of substantial proportions can then be enacted and government spending can be cut in large amounts [by eliminating governmental departments, programs etc that waste taxpayers' money and are the cause of this defecit/debt problem]. I'll conclude by saying a special THANK YOU to the tea party movement of patriots out there who have heroically begun this battle. We all owe you a great debt of gratitude for your courageous fight, but we must all put aside our differences over specific agendas, vote the straight Republican ticket, provide more ground troops to DC freshmen etc Republicans who are fighting for us taxpayers, and we will one day soon hopefully get the desired conclusion that we all strive for!!!!!!!!!