It is amazing what can happen in 48 hours. Wednesday morning I was packing up from my trip to Kansas City and penned the now famous blog about John Boehner. The line “Charlie Sheen is now making more sense than John Boehner,” has been picked up and repeated throughout the blogosphere.
USA Today picked up the story and interviewed my friend Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express, who said, “That’s Judson.” She went on to explain her group was trying to work with the GOP in Washington and my comments did not help them.
My friends at Tea Party Express have their strategy. I hope it works I look at things differently. I have a different view of politicians. If you are elected on promises to cut spending, I’m not interested in coming to Washington to drink with you or play golf with you or eat at a chic restaurant with you. I simply want you to do what you said you were going to do.
I was on Jerry Doyle’s radio show yesterday (jerrydoyle.com) and he asked me about the Charlie Sheen quote and if that quote over shadowed the message. Perhaps it did. But it did get the message out. Some people did not like the message or calling Boehner a fool. I have a simple question for those who did not like what I had to say about Boehner.
If not now, when?
If he is not cutting the budget now, when will he?
The GOP came in promising to cut $100 billion from this year’s budget. Remember, this year’s budget was never passed by the last congress. The government has continued to function on continuing resolutions. The GOP quickly waffled on the $100 billion, instead saying they could only cut $32 billion. The Tea Party movement began to complain and that number went up to $61 billion, but Boehner is already hinting that number will not hold when he goes into negotiations with Harry Reid.
The National Debt is now equal to our gross domestic product. Economists tell us that when debt reaches 90% of GDP, it starts to cause serious drag on the economy. We are at 100% and about to shoot past that.
Again, If not now, when?
If Obama’s budget is passed, it will add $1.5 trillion to the debt. That number is assuming tax revenues stay steady and given the very shaky state of the economy that is not a good assumption.
When will Boehner stand strong and stop this insanity?
Some of those who complained about what I said pointed that the GOP only controls the House, not the Senate nor the White House.
This is true, but there is something else that they are not thinking about.
No one can make Boehner and the House appropriate any money. All they have to do is just say no.
If Boehner is not willing to cut the budget now, when will he be?
Cutting $61 billion is only 4% of the projected deficit. The national debt will continue to skyrocket. And in that instance, Charlie Sheen does make more sense than John Boehner.
But when will Boehner decide to stand up and pretend he is a conservative? When will he act? When our debt is 150% of our GDP? Will we be in total economic collapse before he decides something needs to be done?
If Boehner will not act now, as grim as things are now, what will it take?
We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars this year to repair and refurbish mosques around the world. Ignoring the First Amendment issues for a moment, guess what? The Muslims hate us too. Why are we spending hundreds of millions of dollars to repair the religious houses of groups that hate us? Let them hate us in buildings that have leaky roofs and crumbling walls. They can hate us without us paying for it.
When is the GOP leadership going to get it? We are broke. We have to start making major budget cuts now. We cannot wait until next year. Minor cosmetic changes in the budget and symbolic cuts are not going to do.
As of now, the national debt is $14 trillion. If there are no more cuts other than the timid cuts Boehner has said meet his promise to the American people, simply to vote on, the debit will go up by another $1.5 trillion dollars. And that number is based on tax revenue coming in, which with a soft economy is not a good assumption.
Like many in this movement, I am a card carrying Republican. A few days ago, I went to my county GOP convention to vote for the leadership of my county party. But as many people say, “I am a conservative first and a republican second.” The GOP leadership thinks they can get away with business as usual on Capitol Hill. We in the Tea Party movement need to make sure they understand the message. Either cut spending now or we will find people who will.
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Permalink Reply by USARogue on "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.
This is the marriage of our corrupt Congress and the Federal reserve.
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Permalink Reply by Gene Ruminski on Mr Speaker,
The current deficit is in the range of $1.7 trillion dollars. The HHS Inspector General has repeatedly, over the past 46 years, identified instances of waste, fraud and abuse, which he indicated werein the range of fully one third of the HHS social spending budget of $1.7 trillion dollars. By my calculation that amounts to $550 billion per year in current dollars. No congress, democrat or republican, has ever addressed the issues raised, EVER.
The GAO, just a few days ago, identified another $200 billion in duplicate spending throughout the federal government. Together that total comes to $750 billion dollars without any congressman or senator doing a single thing.
Just cut Obama's proposed budget by $750 billion, based on the government's own estimates, and let the "tax and spend" democrats decide what and where to cut, don't even begin to wrestle with the issue. Simply tell Obama, "Thats It, Man, Thats all there is!! T'ain't No More!! And the budget deficits will be slashed within 4 years!!
Permalink Reply by USARogue on Gene,
You're assuming that some miraculous cure for Barracks chronic Socialist tic, "Spend, spend, spend" will occur.
I gave up on that fantasy about $700 Billion stimulus dollars ago.
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Permalink Reply by Jon Brunke on In the wonderful world of politics if you don't keep relentless pressure on your politician then you don't exist. It's basic politics, don't believe me? Ask the progressive freaks over at firedoglake why after cooing over their king for a year they are ready to gut him like a fish. Boehner took the job, he knows the game. He might be a nice guy but I have to go with Judson (still) on this one. They think we're going to go away it's up to us to make sure that doesn't happen.
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