In Bid for Control of GOP, Tea Party Brings U.S. to Brink of Economic Calamity
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For many, it's a head-scratcher. Don't those Republicans see the danger in their hardline stand against allowing the U.S. government to borrow the money it needs to continue operating? GOP members of Congress not only insist on tying any deal for raising of the debt ceiling to a deficit-reduction scheme, they are demanding that such a scheme not raise a dime of revenue -- not even from the wealthiest Americans, who are still basking in their Bush-era tax-cuts. On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner walked out of debt-limit talks with President Barack Obama, even after Obama offered the speaker a plan that would have made $650 billion in cuts to safety net programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.But, really, Boehner had no choice but to walk out -- if he wants to continue on as speaker, that is. The Obama deal, you see, included the elimination of certain tax breaks for the rich, and the closing of corporate tax loopholes, the president told reporters. And Boehner is on notice from the Tea Partiers within the ranks of the GOP that no means of increasing revenue is acceptable, not even for the easing of America's economic woes. Hot on Boehner's heels is the ambition of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
There's a temptation, when assessing the showdown over the debt ceiling that is bringing the United States to the brink of defaulting on its debt, to view the confrontation in terms of Republicans vs. Democrats, liberals vs. conservatives, Obama vs. Boehner.
What we're really witnessing, though, is a ruthless power-grab by the architects of the Tea Party movement for control of the Republican Party. And if they have to destroy House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to do it, they will. Heck, if they have to destroy the United States in order to grab the levers of GOP machinery, they will, content in the knowledge that, as elites, they will have first pick of the spoils.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the newfound love between Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the Tea Party organization founded by David Koch, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., the Tea Party-allied second-in-command of the House of Representatives. Cantor has made a specialty of undercutting his own speaker's negotiating power as Boehner tries to cut a deal with the president.
When, two weeks ago, Vice-President Joe Biden and GOP leaders were close to making a deal that would have given in to Republican demands for budget cuts, Cantor refused to go along because the deal included some tax increases. By walking out of the talks, Cantor won the hearts of Tea Party leaders, and, many said, a shot at the speaker's job. For if Cantor can prevent Boehner from brokering a deal with the president, the logic goes, the speaker could be so weakened as to lose his footing as the House Republicans' top man. That would leave Cantor positioned to step in......
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bike10
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Let the voters beware look at what we got in 2010.
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bike10
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ithink
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I am here to tell you the 2010 election campaigns of the tea party and republicans were run on continuous talk of getting the economy on track and creating jobs that only they could do and the people who did vote bought the story and right after the election instead of going to work in the house and putting together bills to get money into the states to invest in infrstructure and roads and bridges that would have created thousands of jobs that would have increased state revenues and made balancing states budgets much easier and lowered the unemployment rate they dropped that mantra and went right to work on what their doners wanted that had nothing to do with the economy or creating jobs and as soon as they get beat on this debt ceilling deal they will hit the trail again screaming about fixing the economy and creating jobs. the american people i hope will have gotten wise to this bait and switch con game they keep pulling and vote these people out and put in people who know how to govern.
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ithink
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SFirman
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ithink:
I hope so. 2012 will be an important election.
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SFirman
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letsliveinpeace
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ithink:
Right.. talking the same old sh*%!
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letsliveinpeace
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letsliveinpeace
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ithink:
And where do you think they get all that money to pay for their campaigns?
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letsliveinpeace
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ibrake4rappers13
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letsliveinpeace:
Doesnt Obama have more money than any republican running for president?
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ibrake4rappers13
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WalmartRamen
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It's RepublicanCare for you. Only care about their rich friends not us poor here!
House Speaker John Boehner? What about his affair?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/24/john-boehner-affair-lisbeth-lyons_n_738...Also he was a preacher that left the world of god to get into worldly matters! What does Revelation in the bible say about those things?
Not to the fact that Jesus said to follow the rules!
Matthew 22:21 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar - 1 year ago
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WalmartRamen
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moodyblue
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The tea party taliban.
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moodyblue
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Paratus
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If you continue to do what you have always done you will continue to get what you have always got. NO more spending. That is what the November election last year was about. Obummer has no bill on the table neither do Dems or the Senate. We have been told that as far as the WH is concerned, leadership means not having an idea. Strange but explains a lot. Reid tables the House bill in the Senate without a vote. This day has bee coming for a long time. The House changed hands on the election in 2010 because the Dems were spending like crazy. Obummer and the previous Congress failed to address the problem. The longer this goes on the more painful it will become.
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Paratus
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SFirman
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Paratus:
The 2010 elections were about creating jobs. That's what they ran on. They only care about keeping taxes low on the rich. It wouldn't be so painfull if the teaparty House would give a little. Where's the jobs Boehner??
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SFirman
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Paratus:
Friend, do you still not get that individuals and governments going into debt is how money is created to circulate in the economy? Think about that for moment and then rethink what your are calling for......your solution is really no solution at all.
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Schnookums
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Marilynn_Murray
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Why hasn't a recall been started against Cantor and Boehner? Why aren't we making sure everyone understands who the Koch brothers are, and the organizations they fund? How in the hell can Grover Norquist get these Republicans to sign his tax pledge and refuse to disreguard it even if doing that means destroying our economy.
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kvb1
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Cut, Cap & Ruin would cut spending its lowest levels since the 1950s -- despite the fact that we now have Medicare, Medicaid, more seniors, etc. -- and taxes would be almost impossible to raise. The Astro Turf Party tries to equate government spending to a family on a budget. "When a family is on the brink of bankruptcy and can't make ends meet, what do they do? They cut back on their spending. It's very simple". However, a family can not te3ll an employer they have to pay them more money after years on no pay increases. Congress has that power, and they have been giving the treasury to the rich and corporations for decades.
Hopefully everyone will see that these Astro Turf RIPublicans only care about their own power, and how much money they can put in their own pocket [former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas. (FreedomWorks was also founded with Koch money, although both the organization and Koch say they have parted ways.) Armey earns a total of $500,000 per year from FreedomWorks and its foundation].
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kvb1
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GRC54
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Tea Party?
There is only one tea party and it already happened in my state, in my city.
So teh The Coch's the Armeys and anyone else who thinks they are the tea party I say this
FUCK OFF!!!!!!!
Strip these fools of their citizenships freeze all their money and deport them to where ever or who ever wants them just as long as it's not this country or it's territories. - 1 year ago
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GRC54