The House & President Obama…agree?
January 23, 2013 at 11:55 am in News by Tea Party Patriots 4 Comments
Yesterday, Fox News reported the House is setting itself up to vote for the debt ceiling deal the House GOP leadership and some fiscal conservatives have agreed on. The deal, which includes raising the debt ceiling for three months in exchange for Senate Democrats actually passing a budget as well as some cuts in discretionary spending, was opposed on Sunday by 61% of Tea Party Patriots’ local coordinators.
It appears our local coordinators were wise to do so, because last night President Obama came out in surprising support of the House’s deal. Given the President’s complete lack of seriousness regarding the debt, and his insistence on higher taxes over spending cuts, his support leaves Tea Party Patriots more concerned than we were on Monday about the deal.
However, not all fiscal conservatives are in agreement with Tea Party Patriots on this issue. As stalwart Tea Party ally Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told activists on Sunday, he is supporting the deal. According to Rep. Jordan, he dislikes giving Congress any excuse to kick the can down the road, but he believes withholding the pay of Members whose chamber doesn’t pass a bill will incentivize a return to normal budget order. He also believes this strategy will give fiscal conservatives a media advantage in the coming months of debate, should the House’s plan become law.
While Tea Party Patriots respects Rep. Jordan’s opinion on the matter, the fact is that activists have been told by GOP leaders for two years now that going big (in this case, not raising the debt ceiling and therefore balancing the budget immediately) is not an effective strategy. “Wait until the next time” was the battle cry from Washington. Yet here we are, and as Rep. Jordan pointed out, the GOP leadership has squandered two years of opportunity.
Well, no more. We have yet to see any cuts in any budget agreements in the last two years. Even sequestration was kicked down the road in exchange for more spending and tax increases in the fiscal cliff deal. It’s long past time for Washington to show the American people real spending discipline, and that will not happen by raising the debt ceiling again.
Call your House Representatives today. Tell them to not pass the deal House leadership is setting up with President Obama’s support. Make sure they hold against this push to, again, kick the proverbial can down the road.
The House Republicans really want to cut benefits to current Social Security and Medicare recipients. The deadbeat liberal moocher socialist want to preserve these programs for the 47%. We need to balance the budget and lower deficit spending!
Social security is a dedicated tax for a dedicated purpose, it never belonged in the general fund and legalizing looting it was, and is, criminal.
Roads and bridges were intendd to be the same, The looting of the general fund for roads and bridges are also criminal. The reason being is that goods carry value, and the value of services is attached to the goods they increase the value of. When the general fund is brought into infrastructure, it enables transportation at prices that open markets at unfair prices, due that the trade is essentially funded, and is destructive of a true free market.
Think about it.
When we see the budget, we’ll start talking about raising the debt ceiling, and not before. This should be the line in the sand. If there’s no budget, all you have is a “promise” from the Democrats that they will discuss cutting spending at some nebulous time in the future.
This is exactly why spending has been out of control. Instead of generating a budget, each line item is appropriated individually, creating a crisis management situation for each line item under discussion.
Stop that idiocy. Generate a budget. Get it signed by Obama. Then, and only then will there be discussions about the debt ceiliing. The Democrats are using no budget to continue out-fo-control spending. And, Beohner is clearing the way for them to do this.
Boehner is a Democrat. He is working for their agenda. We need to put a stop to that.
The house is as corrput as the Obama administration and the Senate; what would anyone expect from the inside Washington group. Those who vote against the increase should be commended, the rest voted out in 2014.