Is it time to flood the phone lines in DC to let them know they need to grow a spine?

Our Republican Leadership in the House of representatives are spineless weasels.

I am afraid more purging needs to occur in the primaries, including some of the freshman who have already been co-oped.

I for one hope the shut it down. When the Dems and their water carriers in the formerly MSM want to “target” the Republicans for blame I hope Republicans stand up and point out the hypocrisy of these idiots supporting the Wisconsin and Indiana “fleebaggers” whose disappearing act has essentially shut the government down there and will force people out of their jobs.

how much money will we save with a government shutdown?

Can we shut it down until November of 2012?

One easy way to affect the process: e-mail this to your Republican representatives, along with a warning that you will work to replace them, donate money to unseat them, etc., if they refuse to uphold the $100 billion dollar cut (which is already 60), repealing MAObamaCare, etc.

Let the anger flow!

I was thinking of another body part(s).

Like Chris Christie says, you do the job you were elected to do and not worry about reelection.

Shut it down!!

With regards to a shutdown, the entire sewage bloviating will come from the Socialist Dem Senators (IE all the Dem Senators) and the leftist media.

Both are completely looked at as Bozos at this point other than to them selves. They are only relevant to their own self licking ice cream cone world. All the GOP has to do IS NOT LISTEN.

Even back in 1995, when there was NO WHERE near the support for the right as there is now, they would have been fine if they just stuck to their guns. The end result actually showed in the GOP favor anyway!!!

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!

I’m back on the phones and also making it clear up through the REC channels.

The kind of Republican that will SHUT DOWN now is the kind we want IN.

The kind that will NOT shut down now is the kind we want OUT!!!

the Wisconsin GOP is getting for their fortitude (67% of the public is in favor of Republican actions) now is the time for their Washington counterparts to press that advantage. The issue of greedy public sector unions and urgency for debt reduction has now been nationalized. Yes, the risks are great; but so are the rewards.

The media will ensure this and pay no heed to anything that does not support the perception. Controlling the message is power. Because of the Progressive State Controlled Media, the Democrats continue to wield a great deal of power, no matter what they do or how they do it.

Sad state of the union.

The narrative is simple:

1) We’re broke.
2) Democrats don’t seem to care, as evidenced by Obama’s budget and their behavior for the past two years.
3) They would rather shut down the government than rein it in.
4) Someone has to do something, and we are the only adults in Washington.

If you want America to become Greece, vote Democrat. If you want to face and solve serious problems like an adult, support conservative Republicans.

Again, simple as that.

The media will try to make them look bad no matter what! Surely there is a way to include one month Social Security and welfare payments in the temp budget they keep talking about, put it on top and let the Dems refuse it … then cut what they have promised and let the media try to spin it!

Why aren’t any of our elected representatives out there saying this publicly? Is our party that inept that we simply don’t even know how to get out in front of something like this?

I want to hear our elected officials call the President a coward who refuses to lead on budgetary matters. I want to hear our elected officials say that the Liberal party (not the Democrat party) is playing politics with a government shutdown. I want to hear Erick’s pontification floated by every elected GOP official, up and down the ladder.

than by the Democrats. These guys would rather be “Members of Congress” than Americans.

It can be read here.

It should be on everybody’s required reading list today.

Meanwhile, I’m not going to ‘borrow trouble’ and assume they cave yet – I’ll worry about that when it actually starts to look like they will cave.

but he left out an important one that was covered by Byron York in today’s issue of The Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/02/why-gop-shouldnt-fear-government-shutdown). It wasn’t so much at the shut down that they got snookered, it was at the State of the Union speech which followed. He setup the GOP by bringing in a hero from the Murrah Federal Building and got the GOP to cheer for him, before turning it around on them about the shutdown. That he flat out lied about who really shut down government was only par for the course.

If The Big 0 tries that, the whole Republican contingent has to do the Joe Wilson, whether it meets decorum standards or not.

I do think this is what the ppl in Nov. wanted…very different than 1995, just look at the economic mood.

We need to let the GOP know that they’re supposed to represent US, and that if they will stand up to the Democrats, we will back them up the whole way.

Conversely, we need to make them more afraid of us than the Democrats, by letting them know that if they cave, Every Last One Of Their Sorry Butts will be primaried.

If we do this, we can win this fight.

A few words which can strike fear and terror into the heart of any incumbent legislator: “you will face a well organized primary challenge”.

A government shutdown is effectuated by the President vetoing appropriations bills passed by the Congress. It is Presidential action which shuts down the government, not the Congress. We need to keep hammering this point home. http://www.timelyrenewed.com

They knew the Dems controlled the other chamber. They had to know the WH might not budge. So why their consternation? Where’s their strategy? Where are all these “tricks” Boehner bragged he had up his sleeve?

I have been lulled, as maybe others have, into overconfidence that the media’s impotence was on the rise and incurable. Surely, Fox, RS, all the “new media” has made a positive impact. It is also true that BO overstepped so drastically and completetly that the mainstream media was unable even with their best efforts to keep him and the democrat majorities intact.

Yet, they are not impotent. They still shape the opinions of a great swath of America at the margins, they still shape Washington DC more than anywhere else, and they are still much better at attacking the innocent than defending the guilty. And our side still does not have a solution or even an adequte plan for using the airtime they do give us. I am witnessing it right here as my local newspaper runs pro-union material 10/1.

I assume roughly 25% of the poulation is liberal to the core, 40% conservative to the core – and 35% lean this way or that. The media controls a big chunk of that 35% at the margins,

So yes – collective bargaining for publlic employees is asinine, the union method is thugish, the Wisconsin officials are dilatory and cowardly, planned parenthood is pure evil, and yes the Democrats do want the government to shutdown – but if 25 – 30% of the population dont know that and will never find out – then we lose.

Elections do have consequences – but so does a liberal media. I belong to a tea party that brings in 40-60 people from a township that represents less than 1/3 of the county. I’d estimate at least a dozen such groups in within the greater Cincinnati area. Taking over commitees has been huge. Putting forth candidates has been huge, Being vocal with our reps has been huge.

But, there is also real power in having local groups that acting in concert could reach out to huge swaths of the entire population in short order. Tea Party’s need to produce solid talking points to counteract the media – and disperse that to everyone else – by hand delivery to mailboxes. It should be done on a weekly basis as a direct attack on media distortion.

It is not just the democrats that we have on run – it is the media. If we let up they will rise again an bring the democrats with them.

if that is what it takes. The people of this country have had enough. What other evidence is there to dispute this? We keep kicking the proverbial can down the road (in this case, confrontation) but eventually all of this has to come to a head.

Erick: It seems to me that since the Republicans swept into office in November, everyone is always speculating on the results of certain votes before the votes actually occur. Comments are made and then blown out of proportion and everyone who voted for them has their blood pressure go up. I know mine has a few times. However, I’ve noticed that when it came down to the actual vote, the Republicans seem to be doing what needs to be done and all the speculations turn out to be completely false. In light of this trend, I still follow the opinion pieces that are called journalism, but I take them with a grain of salt. Words are just words, but actions always speak louder. No one can deny what the President is if they only follow his actions instead of what he says on camera or in soundbites.

With this thought in mind, how much of what is happening is actual opinion instead of what will occur? Since I’ve noticed this, I’ve started giving the Republicans a lot more credit. They DID vote to cancel Planned Parenthood funding. They DID vote in the House and Senate to get rid of Obamacare. (They only reason it didn’t pass the Senate is the number of votes, but they still got it to come up for the vote under Harry Reid with all Republicans backiing the repeal.) They are actively trying to make cuts where they can and actually I’ve been impressed that the conversation in Washington has changed from how much the governement should grow, to how much the government should cut. No matter if the votes pass in the Senate or not, the Republicans are making an impact and working on what they should.

With this said, I also think we have a responsibility to still let them know where we stand so that they do not fall back into the big government mode from all the negative PR. They deserve and need our support so that people like Scott Walker in Wisconsin know that we as voters have them covered.

Since this is the first time in my life I’ve ever seen the disgrace that the Democrats are continually brining down on themselves (for example: all the Democrats in the states running scared – literally), perhaps we ought to cut the Republicans some slack and watch for their actions before worrying about the potential issues that may come. I guess it’s just something to consider before we throw in the towel on them already.

I called today to thank him for supporting the amendment, encouraged him to hang tough on the issues, and asked the staffer to read this diary and pass it on to my rep.

A) The Senate will either kill the spending bill altogether or send it back to the House with most if not all of the spending cuts restored.
B) The House will restore said cuts and return it to the Senate.
C) The Democrats will shut down the Government.
D) The GOP will hold firm and eventually prevail.
E) The Voices of Doom here will take credit for ‘forcing’ the Republicans to ‘grow a backbone’.

So if the Democrats want a shutdown for political gain, it does not sound like a shutdown is actually going to help us press the needed budget reforms.

We have had up to this point some real important symbolic measures and some important measures taken whose primary impact is not fiscal. But until entitlement reform is tackled, the budget is completely screwed. Everything else is just meaningless posturing.

Social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment all need major reforming. Start with the biggest budget items, then go down the list. The only real safety net is a thriving economy with low unemployment.

House Republicans on Friday unveiled legislation that would cut $4 billion in government spending by embracing proposals from President Obama.

The House Appropriations Committee on Friday unveiled a two-week spending bill to avoid a government shutdown after March 4. The bill cuts $1.24 billion by terminating programs targeted for cuts in Obama’s 2012 budget request.

The bill would find the other $2.7 billion in savings by defunding earmarks.

From the Hill dot com

Read the entire article…….. and weep. But, this is reality.

House Republicans on Friday unveiled legislation that would cut $4 billion in government spending by embracing proposals from President Obama.

The House Appropriations Committee on Friday unveiled a two-week spending bill to avoid a government shutdown after March 4. The bill cuts $1.24 billion by terminating programs targeted for cuts in Obama’s 2012 budget request.

The bill would find the other $2.7 billion in savings by defunding earmarks.

From the Hill dot com

Read the entire article…….. and weep. But, this is reality.

Republican in Congress – ask them to be sure to also read the comments from Jack and Jill America! Let them know we will stand by them if they STAND STRONG!

Republican state legislators in Wisconsin have received strong support from all across the country – NOW IS THE HOUR! If Republicans in Congress decide to go wishy-washy, we will have lost a great opportunity to SHOW EVERYONE just who is dedicated to saving America and who is dedicated to DESTROYING our country!!!!!

NO CAVING, MR. SPEAKER!!!! STAY STRONG!!!! And I urge ALL Republicans to show the country and the world that there are some ADULTS serving in Congress – some with COMMON SENSE who realize it is not going to be an easy row to hoe…but are determined that America’s future is worth the effort!

The first thing he did when he became Speaker was to show how nice and fair he was gonna be to the opposition. Ever the gentleman. Today Ryan made a plea to the WI Dems–We’re all friends here, can’t we just play nice. –No, we can’t! We’re in a civil war, dummy!

I know…I know…There I go again….I just don’t understand…we need to appeal to center to win election…I’m just a purist and an unreasonable hardhead who just doesn’t understand, “Politics is the art of compromise”

Of course we’ll be able to explain to everyone in 2012 that we really mean it this time and once we put Mitt at the Top of the ticket since it’s his turn it will be easy to explain Mitt Gare away as we try to repeal Obamacare while simultaneously appealing to the mushy middle

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

The $4B is actually $1.2B because $2.8B is the earmark elimination that both sides had already agreed to months ago.

If agreed to and passed, the proposal would fund Government until March 18.

Then what?

Will Boenher get *really* brave, bold, and daring and go for a whole $1.5B in cuts for the next two weeks?

Why has Boehner assumed that the dreaded Government shutdown is the automatic default and that it’s *HIS* job to avoid it?

“Read my lips – we *WILL* cut spending.”

high school baseball team with a backup pitcher…if he wasn’t actually on the mound, he pulled against the team! He wanted to be given credit for all our wins individually…Lib/Left/Dems are like that! The coach got rid of this player!

That’s a better solution than caving in or forcing a shut down. Month to month makes Obama look foolish and incapable of being bipartisan as well it exposes his true agenda to fund lousy pet projects and spend far more than he campaigned on. Its time to call this man out and continue pushing him till Obama caves. By the end of spring is polling numbers will be down and he’ll go for budget cuts which aren’t enough btw. Obama and his minions think polls give them power to say NO, drive down the numbers and keep pushing even after he caves so the public won’t forget.

The GOP needs to stand firm and use the media a bull whip to slap Obama on the back like the stubborn inexperienced mule he is. So long as the angry left back him with lies and rants the fight shall go on. But if the GOP use media time to slam the true facts in the media and democrats faces then public sentiment stays with the GOP.

Way too many are against Obama and the liberal liar machine so truth is the best option including calling the media out as liars. As well I think its time for the Tea Party to focus on media lies and protest the media companies in their own back yard. Nothing scares the media more than negative publicity from another media company. So the solution is protest at NBC and MSNBC while ignoring ABC and CBS. Use truth as the weapon of choice, avoid the hateful signs and simply demand the media support the majority of this nation and stop lying and conning Americans. Its a well known fact the MSM conspire together as is, so its time to call them out and push their revenues down as the public tune out. Money is the ultimate punishment.

the myth does not live on.