We’re all behind you 1000% on this.

has already been done. It is all too predictable that the Rs are going to cave.

Remember G.H.W. Bush and how he broke his “no new taxes” pledge when the Ds swore they would cut spending if he caved? Hah! It sounds like we’re going to have to put the toes of some big boots into some big backsides to get this Congress moving in the right direction!

Thank you for your courage and clarity. I can’t think of a better Senate Majority leader than you, once the spineless Miitch gets the boot.

Senator Rubio. But until all the Repulican Senators and the House leadership grows a spine we’re doomed.

Telegraphing the House’s negotiating positions vis-à-vis a potential “shutdown” was probably the most amateurish move I have seen in some time. It continues to show that our leadership is resigned to business as usual.

Allowing $105 billion in permanent stealth funding for Obamacare, the repeal of which was said to be a priority, simply proves the leadership is either not serious, over-matched or disingenuous in their statements.

They have completely lost my confidence and support. I am convinced there are no big moves or bold-strokes to come, except from folks such as yourself.

Thank you for your leadership. You are my first choice for President in 2012. For the sake of our country, please give serious consideration to making that race. God bless you.

I am really burned up today. Even my conservative rep. Blackburn is voting for this garbage.

This far, and no farther.

Stay strong, Marco, We need all of our Conservative and hopefully Republican leaders to do the same.

Thank you!

What the House GOP is doing is unconscionable. A vote for the CR is a vote FOR 0bamaCare.

Don’t think the same cretins in the GOP aren’t also dreaming of the perfect RINO candidate for POTUS in ’12, too. I’m starting to wonder if we don’t really have to throw the baby out with the bathwater next year.

It’s time to start calling out House and Senate Leadership by name. Call them out by name, in public on tv, and make each of them defend the fact that they are not doing the will of the people who voted for them last November.

The press will cover it because they want to show discord in the Republican party. So be it. You can garner this attention and shine a spotlight on this embarrassing “leadership”. How can we defeat Obama when those supposedly on our side don’t have the guts to do the right thing?

Thank you Senator Rubio for your consistently articulate presentation of conservative ideals and your willingness to stand your ground on this spending issue.

Please consider running in 2012. You might be able to wait, but America can’t. Another 4 years of Obama’s “leadership” will be disastrous for our republic. Please keep your mind open to it as other candidates drop out and demonstrate on an almost daily basis why they can’t win. May God bless you and your family as you weigh the matter.

When only a few stalwart Republicans seem to remember the message of 2010 election, it is truely disheartening.

However, my question to you and the Republican congress is, why take the vacations? If you guys had any brains regarding strategy, you would stay in DC and work anyway! Show the American people you’re willing to do the heavy lifting by staying and actually put together an agressive budget echoing Rand Paul’s number or something like it.

Use this time to go on every talk radio and TV show and explain your plan. Be in-your-face to the Democrats. Get the facts out there about who, what, when, where and why regarding the government shutting down.

There should be two messages to promote and to GET AHEAD of the Democrats in messaging:

1) We are working to put together a totally awsome and get ‘er done budget without Democrat support (’cause they’re all on vacation) BECAUSE WE’RE SERIOUS (and they’re not, of course ’cause they’re all on vacation),

And,

2) Get all the facts/information out pertaining to the shut down. Deflate the balloon of scare tactics the Democrats continually release. Get people prepared and mean it.

A serious budget and government shutdown. Hand-in-hand. Be unwaivering and free of fear – earnest and confident in the truth of what you’re working so hard to accomplish. Show all of us who worked so hard to get you guys elected that you’re prepared for the inevitable if that’s what it comes down to.

In other words, Senator, PICK UP THE BATON WE GAVE YOU AND RUN WITH IT!

As a working class citizen of these United States I have a perspective that may be a little different than those in Washington DC.

Many of the discussions that I listen to on cable and radio try to illustrate the problems in terms that can at times be abstract. The republicans need to explain the plan in terms that every American can relate to. The truth is that much of what we need to do is really no different than the steps that a family would take, especially when it comes to cutting back. But you need to be more specific in how they relate to us.

First discretionary spending is what a family would call nonessential spending such as eating out, going on vacation, getting a Starbucks etc. They are nice to have but if push comes to shove they can be cut back. These expenses are always the first to look at (the sequence is important).

Nondiscretionary spending is the same as essentials. Housing basic food, fuel, etc. These are expenses that you may be able to cut back to some degree but have the potential to create more hardship when you do. The point is that it is simply common sense to start with nonessential (discretionary) spending first.

The one area that makes the federal budget different from a personal budget is income. While an individual can go out and get another job, the government has to borrow to increase revenues or require a fee for services rendered. The truth is that our federal government takes money from its citizens and promises certain services in return. But they are obligated to honor the conditions of payments received. In this case they are more like a small business that offers a service (or services) to its customers. If it fails to operate its business in a responsible manner they (federal government) will not be able to provide the services promised to their customers. Raising fees to their customers does not necessarily mean that income will increase. If they raise their rates they risk losing customers and revenue.

Now take that back to the individual. How crazy would it be for any family that runs its own small business and is spending more than it is earning to simply seek to borrow or raise costs to their customers first? The small business that does this soon goes out of business!

Therefore it is foolish to even talk about taxes at this point because we really haven’t started to cut back on the budget! Congress first must cut nonessential spending as much as possible, thoroughly and systematically. By cutting nonessential spending first, we will not have to cut as much from essentials (nondiscretionary).

Only after the congress is confident that they have cut as much as they possibly can should they look at raising fees (taxation). If you do not you will be tempted to leave more spending than you should in the budget. Any successful family owned business has control over their expenses.

I appreciate your leadership on this issue. However, a long term budget which merely trims $60 billion from the deficit (only about 1/25 of a $1.5 trillon deficit), will not be acceptable either. We would like to see House GOP members grow a spine and take a vote on several hundred billion in cuts. And not just minor cuts in discretionary spending. We must have real cuts in tough places like entitlement spending and defense. If they are worried about how voting yes on these cuts will make their Democrat colleagues feel or about how a shutdown would impact their political future, they are not worthy of holding office. Our country is facing serious problems, and it deserves a serious response. If the best they can do is cut $50 billion more than Dems are willing to cut, there’s no point sending them to Washington in the first place.

pn this issue. I only wish more of your colleagues shared your views. How is it that they can be so out of touch with the American people? It is as if they do not listen to us anymore, they just care about being re-elected.

But their lack of courage will not discourage us. We will simply vote them out if they do not start cutting spending. They can count on it!

All they do is leech off the public fisc, fund Democrats & the worst RINOs, aid and abet sex trafficking, cover up statutory rape, kill babies and maim women while pushing for their population control agenda. If the GOP does not hold firm and win on this one, then it will be a clear signal they cannot even rally on a point social and fiscal conservatives stand together on.

Take away their federal funds, and take away any money to states that continue to give state funds to PP. Bankrupt the bastards.

I read Sen. Rubios’ comments over and over, and while I agree that we need to stop these short-term CRs and deal with these issues in serious way, I saw nothing to indicate that Sen. Rubio is committed to defunding Obamacare, even if it means an ordered government shut-down to do it, which it probably will. If this Congress allows Obamacare to be funded, it’s a vote FOR socialism and the fundamental transformation of this country. Start talking to the American people, the way Ronald Reagan did and have the faith and courage that we need now to save this country. Get over the politics of the shutdown and stand firm on these principles or go home! Off to the phones…

I am so pleased to have read your commentary AFTER I just gave a staffer in Senator Saxby Shameless’s office an earful about “raising revenues” by ending tax deductions. NOT ONE TAX INCREASE on anyone unless it is part of FUNDAMENTAL TAX REFORM, i.e., the Fair Tax or a one rate flat tax. I asked one basic fundamental question – if Senators DeMint, Rubio, Paul, and Lee can stand on conservative principles instead of going along to get along, why can’t Shameless?

Best,
Michael Brown
Suwanee, Georgia