Tea Party to Obama: Don’t Hold Our Economy Hostage
January 14, 2013 at 3:16 pm in News by Tea Party Patriots 7 Comments
‘Deadbeats’ and Junkies Can’t Stop Spending Other People’s Money
Today, Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, responded to President Obama’s press conference on the debt ceiling.
“The President wails against shirking our debts as a country, but disingenuously refuses to take any meaningful steps to reduce that debt—such as spending less,” said Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. “It is the President who is holding our economy hostage to his vision of spending more now regardless of the consequences. It is the President whose deadbeat policies handicap our economy and stunt growth. It is the President and his party who pass deadline after deadline without passing a budget so that the American people can review and analyze it.
“Every dollar increase in the debt ceiling is another dollar stolen from our children and from young people who aren’t even old enough to vote. We cannot keep splurging on ourselves and send them the bill. Deadbeats and addicts ensure they get their own ‘fix’ and leave their children to waste away. A government addicted to spending cannot long last without overdosing and going bankrupt. We need an intervention, and we need it now.”
The allusion to hostage seems to go well with this administration, first he holds the auto companies up to a hailstorm of disinformation, then seizes operational control–personally firing the CEO at GM before the bailout. Prior to that, his cohort had rigged the banks, which Bush took the heat for bailing out, notwithstanding his earlier involvement in a race-based lawsuit demanding rewriting SEC regulations for ethnic concerns, which lead to the housing boom and subsequent bust. Then it was the “stimulus”-without which we were to be plagued by unemployment over 8%, after which, for 4 years, we never saw a legitimate report of under 8%. The report immediately prior to the election which fabricated 186,000 plus jobs out of thin air and failed to report California’s numbers was since amended to above 8% as well.
But, the complicit media carries the water of deceit, and we keep trying to point out the truth.
Any budget must balance, if it doesn’t balance, it is not a budget, it is a loan application.
better start learning the Chinese National Anthem….
In my mind, there is no reason to bring the debt limit into any conversation regarding reduced spending. The argument itself is damaging to the economy, not to mention the action being damaging. Secondly, to threaten to “shut down” the government is a ridiculous notion. If they actually do shut the government down, no one knows how much damage will be done. Secondly, if they cave at the last minute, they have not only damage the economy and created who knows what in unintended consequences, but have destroyed any credibility the R’s may have. It is a lose-lose situation and, in my mind, completely unnecessary.
The House of Representatives, Constitutionally, has the sole power of the purse. Any and all funding necessary to implement and maintain the laws which are passed by Congress originates within the House. (Although Congress, on a regular basis, circumvents that requirement by the Senate originating legislation that is later attached as an amendment to legislation originating in the House
Congress HAS the authority to pass legislation that reduces spending. There is no need for an executive budget or any other source outside the House. There is no need for any “GRAND BARGAIN” between Congress and the Executive. There is no need for smoke and mirrors or gimmicks that can and will be changed at a later date (kicking the can down the road).
If it were me, I would bring bill after bill (almost on a daily basis) which reduces spending. The key is not to go big in any one bill, but to do it incrementally with small 1 to 2 % reductions. Eventually, the reductions will mount to the overall level we need. Secondly, I would hold a press conference every day to announce and explain each bill to the public. In that way, the public would see the reasonableness of the Caucuses actions and gain public support. As the bills passed the house, they would be sent to the Senate. Mr. Reid would be forced to either bring them to the floor for a vote or explain to the public why it wasn’t brought to the floor. Either way, he is obligated to act. If it fails to pass, the R’s have a recorded vote to bring to the public and if it does pass, it forces President Obama to sign it or veto it. Either way, his bluff has been called.
Up to this point, he has been immune to the arguments of the R’s because the Senate has acted as a buffer. The house has aided and abetted the process by passing bills that they KNEW were dead on arrival. While that may be great pander for their constituents, it does nothing to solve the problems of the country. Additionally, it has allowed the D’s and the administration to frame the argument in such a way as to make the R’s the bad guys.
I agree with the representative from Texas. We should impeach the Narcissist In Chief if he bypasses Congress with another Executive Order ignoring budgets and raising the debt ceiling.
I will back any movement to impeach this president.
No chance impeachment would even be contemplated. Those who would have to bring charges are complicit. It’s yet one more example of the investigator investigating themselves–sort of like the “Benghazigate” fiasco in which those responsible made their own inquirry and found that nobody was to blame, but they will add more government employees in order to, “make sure this never happens again”. Yeah, RIGHT!
Better than impeachment. http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/5284/2 Senate would never convict, and the House doesn’t have the guts. But the Governors… actually have the power to bring actual criminal charges that would have to immediately go to the Supreme Court.