If any of our GOP "leaders" think for a second that the can actually trust this president or any of the so-called Democrat "leadership" in Congress, all they need to do to remind themselves of what a fallacy that is, is to simply take the briefest of glances back over their shoulder to a few moments in some pretty recent history that glaringly demonstrate why they cannot allow themselves the luxury to once again believe anything that they may be told by the slime that resides in the Democrat caucus. It is paramount that they present a united front and resoundingly reject any Democrat demands for tax hikes. This is not the time to be raising taxes, anyone's taxes. And besides, Barry's claim that he wants only to raise the taxes on those rich guys who fly around in private jets rings more than just a little hollow. He could take every penny that they make and still come nowhere near achieving the level of "revenue" that is needed. And after the "rich folks" have been sucked dry, who’s next?
At the same time, though, they must remain just as resolute and focused like a laser beam on significant spending cuts as being the primary method of reducing the deficit and as being required before agreeing to any raising of the present debt limit. As Barry and Little Timmy "The Tax Cheat" attempt to ratchet up the rhetoric, our team cannot, actually they must not, allow themselves to be drawn into yet another trap put in place by these sleazy Democrats who seem to be so determined in their efforts to bring about a complete economic and financial collapse in this country. Both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were hoodwinked and got sucked into accepting similar plans that ended up amounting to absolutely nothing. As much as Barry has claimed that "we are not Greece," he and his liberal cohorts in Congress are definitely trying their level best to, if not turn us into Greece, possibly something much worse than Greece. Because unless they are somehow stopped, by the time Barry and his Congressional allies are done we may well be much worse off than Greece.
Barry seems to only want a deal that will not include any spending cuts at all until after the next election. And that means they will never happen, or so says Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert. Gohmert, whose district covers an area on the Louisiana border, refuted Barry’s claims that many Republicans favor revenue-increasing measures alongside spending cuts. He said those who do should have learned a very valuable lesson from the mistakes made in the past. “After 1986, that tax reform that Reagan did, he was promised all kinds of tax cuts in return for what was done to the tax code. Well the cuts didn’t come,” said Gohmert, who has been in Congress since 2005. “President GHW Bush was promised all kinds of cuts in spending in return for just a tiny ‘oh come on President Bush, we know you said read my lips, no new taxes, but just a little bitty raise here.’ “Once he did, they beat him up for breaking his pledge of no new taxes and the cuts never came.” Democrats have a very obvious track record that shows they are not to be trusts, AT ALL! We need to have substantial cuts in writing, and not some mythical or hypothetical spending cuts, before there is ANY agreement on raising the debt limit.
When asked if current Democratic tactics were intended to once again “snooker” Republicans just like Bush, he said, “That is exactly what’s going on and the best evidence of that being the case is there is no agreement to cut anything in the short term, in the next year and a half." Rep. Gohmert added, “You surely realize what it means to agree to cuts over 10 years. You get more than a year and a half out, they will not happen. There is no agreement to cut anything while he’s president this term. That’s just shocking to me that he would propose anything that didn’t have firm commitments in the next 18 months. Because that means there is no commitment to cut.” What the Republicans need to do here is to show a little spine and not be afraid to very firmly slam on the brakes on this idiotic process until some very specific spending cuts, and not just on defense, are very clearly identified before progressing any further beyond where we are right now. And they need to ignore all of the sophomoric scare tactics currently being employed by Barry and his team of miscreants.
Gohmert said he cannot believe that Barry "Almighty" can say “with a straight face” that the American public wants such a deal. “This president has proposed no deal. He hasn’t put anything in writing. He hasn’t made any form of proposal at all. He keeps requesting that the Republicans do what he asks and that includes raise taxes. But he has no deal.” Gohmert also said the president’s claim that Social Security payments may not be made after the Treasury’s Aug. 2 deadline for an agreement on raising the debt ceiling was bogus. Barry has even come out and said that 80 percent of American agree with him regarding raising taxes on "millionaires and billionaires." That we know is nothing but a bald faced lie! I'm not sure why the fact that Barry is so willing to lie should come as a big surprise to Mr. Gohmert, or anybody else for that matter. It is pretty common knowledge that Barry is a pathological liar, it's all that he knows how to do. Look back over his entire career, what there is of it, and it becomes painfully obvious.
Rep. Gohmert commented on Barry's threat that he could not guarantee that checks would go out to our seniors on August 3 if members of Congress could not reach some sort of an agreement before that time. “The fact is there’s $2.6 trillion in Treasury notes in the Social Security trust fund,” Mr. Gohmert said. “There is enough money to pay every social security check for at least three years.” And he said the seniors should stop worrying that they will not be getting their checks, as non-payment would be illegal. “In 1996 a very conservative new Congress passed a law so that it would be even clearer … that if there is a shortfall that needs to be made up in the cash on hand, you can sell some of the Treasury notes to pay the Social Security." Now what should cause everyone to stop and consider the ease with which this man lies, is the fact that Barry knew this was the case when he made is very thinly veiled threat against our seniors.
Barry’s scare tactics are “absolutely unconscionable,” he said. “He ought to be out there being a statesman, and saying, ‘We’ve got nothing to fear but fear itself. Be calm, we’re going to work this out, we’re going to take care of things, we’re going to take care of our commitments. Seniors don’t worry.’ “Instead of that you’ve got this Scarer-in-Chief out there scaring the elderly. It’s a tactic he’s been using since he became president and told America you’ve got to pass this $800 billion stimulus, which is more like a trillion, because if you don’t then the unemployment rate could go as high as 8.5 percent.” What the Representative from Texas fails to understand is that this is the only way that Barry knows how to conduct business. He's nothing more than a common thug. Barry is about as far removed from being any kind of a "statesman" as either of the last two Democrat presidents that we've had. Maybe even more so. Far from being any kind of statesman, Barry is nothing more than a common, low rent, street thug.
Gohmert also took a bit of a swipe at his own party’s leader in the Senate for putting forward a plan that would essentially allow Barry to get his way on the debt limit while saving face for the Republicans who would not have to vote on it. “I can understand Mitch McConnell’s concern about America getting mad because they think the Republicans aren’t doing anything,” he said. “But it’s ridiculous to push forward such a drastic cave for a plan because when you have a plan B and the other side knows what it is, plan B becomes your plan, and they say we’ll forget your plan A, we’ll go straight to your plan B. “We should not be making a proposal like that.” I could not agree more! Republicans should not be looking for ways to simply dodge the bullet, what they need to be doing is to demonstrated some much needed "leadership" on behalf of the American people.
And speaking of the goings on over in the Senate, Majority Whip "Little Dick" Durbin is positive about the possibility Senate leaders will be able to work out a compromise plan to avert an economic default ahead of the Aug. 2 deadline, Politico reports. Ya know, I always get a little worried what guys like "Little Dick" run around saying that they are positive about something that is very likely to cost me money. I start asking myself, "Ok, what has McConnell caved on this time?" If the Senate Republicans under the lackluster leadership of McConnell find themselves being incapable of holding the line, then that responsibility will fall to those in the House. They may very well prove to be the last line of defense for the American people against what appears to be a Democrat Party, as well as a sitting president, Hell bent on destroying our country.
"The good news is that Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are sitting down and working out an approach that we're going to try to tackle this week in the United States Senate," the Illinois Democrat said on CBS's "Face the Nation." Sorry, but there is nothing about that that is "good news." McConnell is a wimp who is drastic need of growing a backbone. We can only hope that he chooses to do so before giving away the farm. Once senators "check the boxes" and reject the conservatives' constitutional amendment to balance the budget, Durbin said, "we basically have to accept this responsibility and do this job and lead.” Now that's rich, a Democrat talking about actually "leading." Democrats as whole are totally incapable of actually leading. Their whole Democrat approach here is to demonize the opposition by using some of the most incendiary and inflammatory rhetoric in an attempt to "persuade" opponents of their ideas to vacate their principles and agree to meet Democrat demands. Republicans can no longer afford to allow this to happen. Their own political futures may very well be at stake.
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