Topic: The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders

[rickl]

You Know Who's latest Facebook post.

As a governor, I had to deal with facts, even unpleasant ones. I dealt with the world as it is, not as I wished it to be. The “elite” political class in this country with their heads in the sand had better face some unpleasant facts about the world as it is. They’ve run out of money and no amount of accounting gimmicks or happy talk will change this reality. Those of us who live in the real world could see this day coming.

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The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.
 
This debt ceiling debate is the perfect time to do what must be done. We must cut. Yes, I’m for a balanced budget amendment and for enforceable spending caps. But first and foremost we must cut spending, not “strike a deal” that allows politicians to raise more debt! See, Washington is addicted to OPM – Other People’s Money. And like any junkie, they will lie, steal, and cheat to fund their addiction. We must cut them off and cut government down to size.
 
To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We’ve been slowly going broke for years, but now it’s happening all at once as the world’s capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone’s door anymore. And we don’t have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We’ll be Greece before these D.C. politicians’ false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.
 
We can’t close our $1.5 trillion deficit overnight, but we must get as close as we can as soon as we can. Little nibbles here and there over 10 years (spun to sound like they’re huge budget cuts) aren’t anywhere near enough. I know from experience that cutting government spending isn’t easy. As governor, I made the largest veto cuts in my state’s history, and I didn’t make many friends doing it. But we will never recover, we will never get free of devastating debt, unless we make tough choices now. We don’t hear talk like this from leaders in D.C. or from those running for office because they say what they think we want to hear rather than what must be said.
 
We are in desperate need of real leadership, but President Obama’s solution to everything is to grow government by borrowing more money, spending more money, printing more money, and taxing our job creators. He once said that he “believes in American Exceptionalism…just as the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism.” Well, the path he has us on will make us just as “exceptional” as Greece – debt crisis, stagnation, permanent high unemployment, and all.

There's more where that came from.

[Libertas]

Sugar Daddy just continues to live in a fantasyland where he thinks ouor troubles are not his fault and have nothing to do with government spending whatsoever!  He's completely nucking futs.  And, more discouraging of all, our so-called leaders actually show up for these sham debt meetings where Duh Wun declares we need to do something, then gets all bitchy when Repub's refuse to go along with trillion dollar tax increases now and backloaded so-called spending cuts later!  Fvck Obama!  Tell that SOB that he cannot continue to live in leftnut fantasyland and blame Republican's for his diaper stinking up the room!

[trapeze]

It is sad that I am not confident in GOP leadership standing firm on tax increases. I am, however, too old and have seen them cave too many times in the past to not doubt them on this.

The only thing that might keep them in line is the recent history of GHWB getting completely hung out to dry and the less recent similar experience of Reagan. The Democrats have visited the "tax increases now for promised spending cuts later" well twice now and have proven to be liars each time. Certainly, you would think, Republicans can learn from history and not be suckered a third time.

And yet, this is why we call it The Stupid Party.

[AmericanPatriot]

They lost Congress in 2006 under Boehner and McConnell

We've given them the opportunity to screw it up again

[Predator Don]

Owimpy to the republicans: I'll gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Now the repubs know Owimpy is a glutton, feeding on money at an alarming rate. They know, with Owimpy, tuesday never comes.

So the question is: Are the repubs so stupid Owimpy gets another free lunch. Trap understands the answer is yes.

[trapeze]

They lost Congress in 2006 under Boehner and McConnell

We've given them the opportunity to screw it up again

Umm, no, this is a new pair of losers.

Hastert and Frist lost Congress with the "non-veto of anything" assistance of GWB.

Boehner and McConnell were in leadership positions, however, so you are partially correct.

[Libertas]

Time to cut the flow of sugar to long-legged pimp-daddy!

If the Repub's blink on this they might as well walk out onto the capitol steps and immolate themselves before we can get our hands on them!

[trapeze]

The formation of the Tea Party is, in part, due to past Republican leadership fecklessness.

As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, and that applies to leadership, too. The Tea Party rose up because of the lack of leadership on the right and the wrong direction (180 degrees off target) of the leadership on the left.

As tests go, 2010 was a mere "pop quiz." The 2012 election will be the "mid term"  and 2014 and beyond will be the "final" as to whether or not the Tea Party is an actual trend resulting in national success and renewal or merely a political anomaly on the downward spiral of our country.

I'm hoping for success.

[Libertas]

Yeah well, when you have The Butthead and his merry band of Rovian back-stabbers out there, I am not entirely hopeful that the Ruling Class will go away without imploding the entire GOP apart...they'll blame the crazy Tea Party extremists (emphasis theirs)...but it will be entirely their fault for not listening to the majority in the caucus...they cannot take us for granted anymore nor can they willingly surrender...they will destroy as many Tea Party candidates that they can and the GOP will go down in flames at a time when we cannot afford to cede any more power to the Demonrats...but if the GOP is doomed, best get it over with IMO.

[Libertas]

I posted a new thread here to discuss Stymie's BS re: debt debate -

http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,2166.new.html#new

[trapeze]

There can be almost zero doubt that O'Bama will not be re-elected in 2012. The voting public simply cannot pull the lever for more of the same. He owns the economy and no amount of demagoguery and sympathetic media is going to change that.

History says that the new Republican president will come into office with two things: More seats in Congress due to the coattails effect and, equally important, a very large mandate for economic change.

What is in doubt is who the Republican president will be. If it is an establishment clone (like, say, Romney) then there could be some real trouble ahead. If it is a Tea Party adherent (Bachmann being the best example since she heads the Tea Party caucus in the House that she created) then it will be the "Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!" type change that may be the only hope for turning things around quickly.

There will either be long term suffering with a RINO as the country deteriorates into global irrelevancy or some rather intense short term suffering followed by a robust recovery if a Tea Party candidate succeeds.

At this point (barring the unlikely outcome of a veto proof Tea Party majority in Congress), I see the Republican candidate as the only thing in question as to the outcome of our country's future.

[trapeze]

And meanwhile the Minnesota state government shutdown enters another week and no one (outside of some state workers) seems to be noticing.

This is called a template.

[Libertas]

It's also called "I love it"!  But I enjoy light traffic and government bureaucrats not blowing money and spreading regulatory tyranny!

 

And I hope you are right about 2012 Trap, I am not seeing the defeat of Stymie as a gimmie, it should be, but the wrong candidate opposing him and the level of fraud, theft and thuggery we will witness from the left will I think be epic.  I don't deceive myself into thinking they think the stakes are puny.

[trapeze]

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Great little post about McConnell saying there won't be a tax increase. Maybe they can learn.

[Libertas]

Yeah, but Unca Shug says the taxes don't kick into effect till 2013, when the Obama recovery is supposedly in full swing. 

 

What's driving that recovery, neither he nor anyone else knows!

 

I'd like to think Repub's will learn, but I've been burned so many times I don't qualify for skin grafts anymore!