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The Senate has always been the weaker link in all this. Call them and lean on them and CALL THE HOUSE. If we keep the heat on the house the Senate is just noise.

The rule must be that if they raise the debt ceiling they must cut spending in the same time frame. So if the debt ceiling will carry the government for 6 months they must cut spending by that much in 6 months.

With several very staunch exceptions the Senate has always been more disconnected from the country. We need to remind them. Changing a culture is hard, and we all must be prepared to keep the heat on them to change.

To personally take out every single congressman, Democrat or Republican, who votes to increase the debt ceiling without IMMEDIATE and equivalent cuts to spending. I don’t care how they talk. I don’t care if we worked to get them elected. They will all get primaried, and we will call them to let them know they will be primaried. With me, anyone?

Does anyone really think this cop-out will satisfy any of the voters and especially the Tea party people?

This is what happens when you get too many lawyers in congress. In a court of law, most judges would technically rule that this was OK. In the court of public opinion however no one is going to buy this.

I am additionally opposed to the cap part. Some of the reasons are obvious, like the fact that statutory caps on anything, like debt, for instance, are subject to ceiling increases. But the other not so obvious is that if something is capped at a certain level, it will guarantee that the level will always be at the cap. There will be no way to get less, even if less is all that is warrated. They will still throw around and use our own money to remove our liberties and stomp all over the states, individuals and business entities alike.

I believe that the more proper way to address out of control government from which the spending and debt problems arise is to deal directly with the problem of out of control government and the majority of the spending a debt problems will be taken care of with states sharing more of the responsibility as was intended by the constitution.

There are many areas where congress has delegated power to the executive, with the best of intentions and the public good in mind, that may have served their purpose in a bygone era, but are no longer useful or effective for anything other than to be tools to further a political agenda and are not subject further vote in congress. They end up more like menaces to society when abused and should be transfered to states or ended completely.

Outside of that I believe that constitutional amendments should be focused on Article III and clarification of the commerce clause, so that the police power that has been usurped from the states is returned to them and is no longer subject to being stripped by backdoor judicial amendments to the constitution.

I sense a “Ceau?escu moment” looming.
Folks get fed up with a government that won’t listen, won’t do the things it is told to do, and worst of all, persists in doing things that harm them.

didn’t like that chracter – sorry.
I mean, of course, Ceausesco

And all my family stll lives in it. It this happens, Boehner needs to be primaried out. If that doesn’t work, I wouldn’t even care if a Dem wins. Just get him out and see what the next Speaker in does.

Immediate tax increases and spending cuts “When we get around to it”

Not over 2 years, not over 20…

I bet the people in the districts represented by these turncoats and RINOs are glad they believed the promises these people spouted so piously last November – anything, anything to hang onto their seats. What a lesson to learn yet again. In 2012, these people have to go.

Your sources for the details are Congressional Quarterly and the Associated Press. Don’t bet the farm on their accuracy.

I do agree no cuts beyond the 10-year window can possibly be considered, even though reducing the base will have an effect enduring beyond that. No serious person believes it impossible that a further increase in the debt limit might be sought within 10 years anyway.

If tax increases are to be on the table – and in our fiscal situation, we just can’t say they aren’t – they should be found NOT in increases in marginal rates but in eliminating deductions. Cutting out the deduction for state and local taxes is a great place to start – it is a clause which mandates taxpayers in lower-tax states pay more to subsidize the freer spenders.

If the Democrats agree to that, I say give them an increase to 39% for the $250,000+ earners. But not until the deduction is scratched!

to fix the problem (the progressive/socialists) and they have shown us they don’t give a fiddlers whatever about anyone but themselves. It is almost too late to right the wrongs done by politicians over the last 75 years.

over the last 6 years and failed to do anything about it. These clowns like Pelosi, Reid, Franks, Dodd et. al. have made such a mess with their drunken sailor aproach to fix the economy that they have screwed it up even more. Does anyone seem perplexed that the same ones who have gotten us into this mess are the same ones we expect to fix it? Not happening. This is just another example of a do-nothing congress that only cares about themselves. We as a people have not been the subject of their dealings for quite some time. I’m referring to Reps as well as Dems. Term limits would go a long way towards getting back on track but it is not the total answer. As long as the masses continue to not care until an election comes up then we will remain stuck in neutral. That’s why those of us who do keep up with what’s happening in DC MUST continue to get the word out whether they want to hear it or not.

A balanced budget amendment is a very bad idea. What makes anyone think that a Congress that doesn’t obey the Constitution now will change their ways and obey an amendment? Publius Huldah says it best here.

http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/category/balanced-budget-amendment/

The Republicans are in charge of the House right now and they should be dictating what is going on just like the Democrats did when they were in charge. As a matter of fact there were no deliberate bipartisan legislation during the Democrats tenure. It is time for our Republicans to lead not be led. i knew as soon as Boehner was elected Speaker of the House that we were in trouble. then his actions, his crying etc have just been devastating to the Party. His very first major battle in the House he lost bg time because the Democrats found out they just had to wait him out and he would cave in. The RINO’s of the Party aren’t gong to be happy until they split the Party in two. This will destroy any chance for a Republican victory not only in the White House but Congress as well. The career Politicians like Boehner are the ones that will love this Debt ceiling bill of saving $2.4 trillion over 10, 20 or 25 years. First off that will never happen because things change, Party control changes etc. If you give the Democrats a debt ceilig of $2.4 trillion more they will fill tht void as fast as possible and then be asking for more. They will never stop.

1. Non negotiable.
2. No support for any republican or candidate that doesn’t sign on.
3. Primary challenges for anyone who supports stretching out the time frame of the cuts.

The problem with the Republican Party is the Republican Party paying Carl Rowe to telll you how to get elected won’t cut it with me any longer.I will not pay the RNC to elect individuals I don’t support.Principled conservatives I will support.The Republican leadership has not thus far not earned my trust .

our Congress or president would actually do the right thing for our economic survival? Silly us! As long as they’re all working to be re-elected nobody will support the painful solutions necessary. Collapse is imminent as there is no political solution possible.

The time for personal solutions is now. Take care of your own by growing food and providing your own version of personal/family security.

You know I’m right.

Sounds like the republicans during Bush’s run.

The great majority of our elected politicians are in a sense just like Mr. Weiner – they are DEBT JUNKIES who CANNOT and WILL NOT control their impulsive behavior to always spend more of OUR money.

We MUST send them to rehab now! Stand with Michele Bachmann and any other sane person who is still fighting to convince our House Republicans NOT to raise the debt ceiling! WE KNOW who needs that spending, and it’s not US!

Stand today with the TeaPartyPatriots and send Congress your message to stand strong on not raising the debt limit here: http://act.theteaparty.net/

Citizens Against Government Waste also has its own petition(s) and campaigns here: http://www.cagw.org/

Fill as many petitions and call as many Congressmen as you can; we MUST keep up the pressure! Grumbling amongst ourselves will achieve very little!

This is the only way they will get to seriously cut spending NOW, before it’s too late to save the economy. And those politicians with the courage and conviction to stand for doing the right thing, will “strangely” find themselves amply rewarded by a grateful and smart public!

Speaker Boehner: I truly hope you’re reading our posts and give a damn for our country!

The Republicans are in charge of the House right now and they should be dictating what is going on just like the Democrats did when they were in charge. As a matter of fact there were no deliberate bipartisan legislation during the Democrats tenure. It is time for our Republicans to lead not be led. i knew as soon as Boehner was elected Speaker of the House that we were in trouble. then his actions, his crying etc have just been devastating to the Party. His very first major battle in the House he lost bg time because the Democrats found out they just had to wait him out and he would cave in. The RINO’s of the Party aren’t gong to be happy until they split the Party in two. This will destroy any chance for a Republican victory not only in the White House but Congress as well. The career Politicians like Boehner are the ones that will love this Debt ceiling bill of saving $2.4 trillion over 10, 20 or 25 years. First off that will never happen because things change, Party control changes etc. If you give the Democrats a debt ceilig of $2.4 trillion more they will fill tht void as fast as possible and then be asking for more. They will never stop spending money they don’t have.

Our encumbants need to realize that this is the the hard decision and we won’t forget.