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| Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) |
For the moment, those who know Price well say he’s not eager to begin fighting Boehner, but he is ready to speak out, should the debt talks get messy. “He is hoping for the best, hoping taxes don’t go up with any fiscal-cliff deal,” says a Price ally. “But if Republican leaders make a mistake on taxes, he wants conservatives to battle.”Hoping taxes don't go up in the deal?! That's completely impossible at this point- the only question is how far up they're going. Democrats won the 2012 election with a promise to raise tax rates on the wealthy, and they hold all the leverage- there's just no plausible way to avoid tax hikes, given that the low taxes in place now expire in 22 days, so no action leads to higher taxes.
Boehner seems to be interested in making a deal though, to avert the recession that would result from the expiration of the tax cuts combined with the self-imposed spending cuts from the 2011 Debt Ceiling fight. And it looks like if he does that, Republicans are going to purge him from power and put in a Real Conservative like the aforementioned Price.
So a liberal like me has a dilemma. One one hand, if the GOP takeaway from the last election is that they need to move even further to the right, I'm kind of excited for Democrats to win the next few elections too, and continue to implement a center-left agenda unencumbered by any time out of power. I don't think Americans are going to elect people like Rick Santorum or Jim DeMint to lots of Senate seats or to the Presidency.
On the other hand, though, what if they win one? 2010 showed that with the right strategy, combined with the right amount of Democratic wuss-ism and some bad economic conditions, they can win no matter how crazy they are. I think we'd only have to suffer for 2-4 years before they're thrown out on their asses after trying to destroy Medicare, but they could do a lot of damage.
Tough call.
American Decline: Right On Schedule
ReplyDeleteConservatives central argument is that President Obama hasn't just been busy redistributing wealth here at home. His Grand Project has been much broader and wider in scope, more profound in mission, and more consequential in effect.
Obama has sought to redistribute EVERYTHING that has always made America great, including yes, our wealth here at home, but also our economic power, political prowess, our military strength, our cultural appeal, our borders, and ultimately, our very exceptionalism. His mission is not to simply create a European-style socialist state, but to take down America from its sole superpower perch and turn it into just another hum-drum, crippled country.
Maybe the recent election told us that we are sick of being Great. Sick of being Rich. Sick of being Powerful. Sick of saving the World.
We want to be more like Europe. You know, siestas, long vacations, 30 hour work week, free this,,free that, 25% unemployment. It really must be fun to sit around drinking wine while your country is going broke. Don't worry Obama voters, we're pretty close to being there. By the time Obama, Reid and Pelosi are done with their American wrecking crew, we'll all be wondering where the rich guys that were supposed to save us went. We'll all be equally poor.
He's accomplishing it in record time. Politico.com reports that Obama's own intelligence community says we're done as the world's sole superpower within a few years. Which is precisely the objective.
Why would Obama want to weaken our economy and our Military strength? Ask an Obama-crat, they'll of course deny the obvious Economic and Military weakening you see and read everywhere except the main stream media. In some circles it's called a death wish, in Democrat land it's called Obama-nomics. In many ways Obama-nomics is similar to Castro-nomics. Everyone in Cuba is equally miserable,,except Castro and his pals.
Who will be happy when the shit hits the fan? Obama, Russia, China and Billions of Muslims.
President Obama says he wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. But what he really wants is to avoid spending cuts. By blaming the Republicans for refusing to increase revenues from the rich (who are also the nation’s leading employers), he can avoid having a straight-out fight over the size of government spending — a battle he must lose and look bad fighting.
ReplyDeleteThe economy is going to go into a tailspin. The very tax hikes Obama is demanding will assure that. But we all remember how Obama was able to deflect enough of the blame for our current difficulties onto the Republicans because they wouldn’t pass his phony “jobs” legislation last year. Now he’s about to play the same game over tax hikes for the wealthy.
Take the tax issue off the table and Americans will see the real game going on here: Obama’s commitment to deficit spending which is driving the economy into ruin. No longer will he be able to avoid the blame for the coming economic collapse because he will have had his way on taxes.
Politically, if the Republicans agree on a tax increase but demand spending cuts in return — and Obama refuses to come across with spending reductions (which he will) — then the blame will fall squarely on the president for the ensuing economic breakdown.
Call Obama’s bluff! Make him face up to the need to cut spending and show Americans how he won’t do it.