OH WHAT THE HELL, LET'S JUST SPEND OURSELVES RIGHT INTO OBLIVION!

Just think how great it would be if we could all just go around spend endless amounts of money without a care in the world because we'd never have to concern ourselves with how we'd ever be able to pay it all back. Thus is the world where Barry and his trusty sidekick, "Little Timmy" Geithner apparently reside. Because such is the concept that forms the basis of Treasury Secretary Timmy "The Tax Cheat" Geithner's latest little scheme as outlined just this past Friday. His idea, now get this, is that Congress should stop placing legal limits on the amount of money that the government can borrow and effectively lift the debt limit to…infinity. Look. I'm far from being a financial expert, my wife does our bills, but does that makes sense to anybody, other than "Little Timmy"?

It was on Bloomberg TV’s, "Political Capital" that we heard host, Al Hunt ask "Little Timmy" if he believes "we ought to just eliminate the debt ceiling." Timmy was pretty quick to respond, maybe just a little too quick, saying, "Oh, absolutely." Hunt then asked, "You do? Will you propose that?" Then Timmy launched into to his cockamamie rationale for such a nutty, and reckless, idea. "Well, this is something only Congress can solve," Geithner said. "Congress put it on itself. We've had 100 years of experience with it, and I think only once--last summer--did people decide to use it to threaten default on the American credit for the first time in history as a tool for political advantage. And that’s not a tenable strategy."

Hunt then asked: "Is now the time to eliminate it?" To which Timmy responded, "It would have been time a long time ago to eliminate it." Adding, "The sooner the better." It was Timmy who quietly warned at the end of October that the Treasury would reach its current ‘legal limit’ on the federal government's debt by about the end of the year. In August 2011, Barry and Congress agreed to lift the legal debt limit by another $2.4 Trillion, thus allowing the government to borrow up to a staggering $16.394 Trillion. However, as of the close of business on Thursday, the Treasury had only $154.3 Billion of that $2.4 Trillion in new borrowing authority left. Who in their right mind would ever think that continuing this madness is anywhere near to being a good idea?

Which leads me to believe that there has to be some sort of an ulterior motive here. And it’s one that I’m afraid does not bode well for the rest of us. And then when you hear that flaming moron, "Dingy Harry" Reid, say, as he did just last week, that the Senate stands ready to increase the debt limit by another $2.4 Trillion, that just lends more credence to the possibility that something very sinister is afoot here. When "Dingy' can so matter-of-factly say, "If it has to be raised, we’ll raise it," it should send a very cold chill down the spine of every intelligent American. Ah yes, good old "Dingy", damn the consequences, we're just going to keep printing and spending money until we either run outta trees or until everything collapses under the sheer weight of our debt, whichever comes first.

Something I think most of us learned growing up was that to use as an excuse for doing something stupid the fact that it had been done before or by someone else in the past, is a pretty piss poor excuse to keep doing it. Which brings me to our debt limit. To base the raising, or not raising, of it on the fact that we've always done it, is incredibly idiotic. Because never before in our history have we been talking about such massive levels of spending as we are now. We've now gotten ourselves to where we are rapidly approaching that point of no return. That point, that once reached, when we will have zero options available to us to save ourselves. Which, I'm beginning to think, is what Barry and the Democrats must have had as their being their goal all along.

AGAIN WITH THE "EXTREMIST" NONSENSE?

Come on "Dingy," you beady-eyed little shit, it's time to give all of this "extremist" crap a bit of a rest. Because I think it's pretty plain here, that if there is anyone who can rightly be referred to as being extremist, it would be every single Democrat in Congress along with our "community agitator" of a president. Apparently old "Dingy" has now officially decreed that he will never agree to a debt ceiling deal that would require another vote before the end of 2012, and blamed “extremists,” i.e., Republicans for blocking a deal now. So again, who is it that's sounding like an extremist? And I don't see how the Republicans are "blocking" anything. They've put forth 3 separate plan and the Democrats have yet to put forward one. To me that sounds like: Adults 3, Spoiled Brats 0.

Anyway, I guess some reporter asked old "Dingy" on Friday if he would be open to any sort of a compromise allowing another vote on this matter before the end of 2012. “No, no, no. We cannot be in this battle all the time,” "Dingy" said. So I guess that the only ones who are expected to, in any way, compromise, that would have to be the Republicans. Because you see, Democrats see themselves as being well above all of that silly compromise stuff. Weasels like "Dingy" want this whole issue as far removed from the psyche of the American voter as possible come election time. They are well aware of the fact that American's have notoriously short memories regarding the dirty deeds that are done in Washington.


“Right now the extremists have locked down this Congress,” Reid continued. “We’re doing nothing. The extremists have locked down the White House. They’re not able to do their work. The country is in an economic malaise and they want to keep this up.” Extremists, extremists, extremists! What a bunch of, to use Debbie Wasserman Schultz's words, "partisan politicking." This caliber of behavior that we coming from Democrats in Congress is pathetically juvenile to say the least. And I'm curious about what exactly it is that the Republicans have done that would prevent "Dingy", or even Barry for that matter, from coming up with their own plans. Instead all they've done is to sit back and take pot shots at the plans put forth by the Republicans. That's adult!


And evidently all it takes for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to now be referred to as being an "extremist" is to do nothing more than to try to gain support for his bill that would increase the debt ceiling – or the amount the government can borrow. The Boehner bill would increase the ceiling by $1 trillion and require another debt ceiling vote in early 2012 that would require an agreement on more cuts. Yup, sound pretty extreme to me! It should go without saying, and for the obvious reason I mentioned earlier, that Barry and Democrats want a single vote to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion that would last until well after the 2012 elections. Because as always, it's never about what's best for the country, but what's best for Democrats.

DEMOCRATS WITH NO BILL OF THEIR OWN, DEMAND REPUBLICANS COMPROMISE...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat from Florida, has opened her big fat pie hole yet again. This time that pillar of brain power and chair of the Democratic National Committee, actually had the audacity to accuse House Speaker John Boehner of “partisan politicking,” and issuing a threat, of sorts, she said if he doesn’t "compromise" with Democrats on a debt-ceiling deal, Republicans will “have no one to blame but themselves for the fallout.” Hey Debbie, how about we see a little compromise coming from you and some of your fellow scumbag Democrats? What she's really saying here is that in order for any deal to be struck the Republicans are going to be required to abandon all of their demands and to then completely capitulate to the Democrats, or else. Now I'm not sure about you, but where I come from surrender just does not equate to compromise. The bottom line here is that Ms. Wasserman and her perverted ilk don't want to cut spending from anywhere other than the military and then they want to jack up taxes. They like all of this spending because, after all, it's accomplishing just what they want, a very hostile economic environment specifically designed to bring about the complete collapse of our economy. So what is there exactly that Republicans should now compromise on especially when that is what we're now being confronted with? And ya know what, if the American people aren't smart to see who it is that's really heavily involved in the partisan politicking, then we're screwed anyway! Of course, when it comes to the American people and they're being observant about the goings on in Washington, I'm never too confident.

The Florida Democrat released the following statement Thursday after House Speaker John Boehner again postponed a vote on the Republicans' debt-ceiling bill. Boehner lacked the votes to pass the bill, which does not cut spending enough to satisfy Tea Party conservatives. Democrats won't back the Republican bill, partly because it raises the debt limit in two stages. “This should be a wakeup call to Speaker Boehner and the intransigent Republican Majority -- the ‘it’s-my-way-or-the-highway’ approach to solving our debt and default crisis is the wrong way for Congress and the American people," Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. "What’s been clear to everyone from the beginning should be clear to the Speaker now: it will require Democratic votes to resolve this crisis and it will require compromise to secure those votes and move beyond this impasse. “Now that his attempt at partisan politicking has failed, I hope that Speaker Boehner will finally join with President Obama and Democratic Congressional leaders in a serious way to enact bipartisan legislation to prevent an historic and catastrophic default on the United States’ debt." I find it interesting that she refers to Boehner's "it's-my-way-or-the highway" approach when the only ones I've seen employing that tactic have been Barry, "Dingy" Harry and every other Democrat out there speaking on the topic. So I think Ms. Wasserman, in this specific instance, is talking out her ass. Which is something Democrats, including our president, are very skilled at doing. The House passed "Cut, Cap and Balance," and sent it to the Senate where "Dingy" refused to bring it up for a vote. So again I ask, who is it that can be called guilty of “partisan politicking?"


In fact, it has been Speaker Boehner who has spent many hours in discussions with a White House that has been anything but willing to compromise. Hours spent all in an attempt to reach some sort of a deal. Those talks collapsed when, to use Boehner’s words, Barry "Almighty," as he so often does, “moved the goalposts.” And isn't that always the way with Democrats? Boehner said a tentative deal fell through when Barry insisted upon raising taxes and “refused to get serious about cutting spending.” So I'm more than a little confused when this bimbo, Wasserman Schultz, say something as idiotic as, "There’s not much time left to solve this problem, but if Republicans are finally willing to sit down with Democrats, we can achieve a real solution that protects our credit rating, avoids default and begins to get our fiscal house in order. If Republicans, at this late hour, refuse to do so, they’ll have no one to blame but themselves for the fallout.” That this is the way this imbecile thinks is more than a little scary to me. And for her to describe the Republicans as being the ones who are being intransigent, very clearly reveals the level of deceit that is underway from her and her fellow sleazy Democrats. The only ones putting up any number of speed bumps and/or road blocks regarding the prospects of a viable deal being reached are the Democrats. That, my friends, should be painfully obvious here. What Debbie and her friends are hoping for here is that they can hang tough just long enough that a few Republicans will go squishy and send up the white flag out of their fear of being labeled by the Democrats. Maybe Debbie and her pals in Congress should be concerned about a little possible fallout.

BABS BOXER THROWS IN HER 2 CENTS…

Apparently not wanting to be left out of the conversation, and with all the brainpower of your less than average ice cube, Senator Babs Boxer, Democrat and left wing loon from California, felt compelled to provide her brilliant insight regarding the ongoing debt ceiling discussions. In so doing, she perpetuated the standard line of Democrat rhetoric/talking points in her criticizing Republicans for using the term 'job creators', calling their rhetoric “so much bull.” “Why do they cut and cap our hopes and dreams? To protect tax breaks for the millionaires and the billionaires. It’s quite obvious. They call them – what do they call them? The job creators,” she told a news conference at the Capitol on this past Wednesday, referring to the “Cut, Cap and Balance” bill that passed the House but was rejected in the Senate as what “Dingy” Harry referred to, as being the worst piece of legislation in history. No, “Dingy,” actually that would be “Obamacare.” Actually, who it is that has been busier than anyone else over the course of the last 2+ years, in going about the killing of the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans? Who is it that, through his socialist policies, has created an environment where 2.4 million jobs have been lost since he assumed office? The answer to that question, my friends? None other than Barack Hussein Obama!

“They say, ‘don’t tax the job creators.’” Never the least bit shy about resorting to the telling of telling a few lies here and there if the need arises, like all Democrats, Babs says she has officially checked it all out and is now here to tell us the whole truth and nothin but the truth. She claims, “the fact is if you look at the biggest job creation motor in this country, small business, only 1.4 percent of them earn more than 450,000 – 3 percent of them earn more than 250,000 so that’s just so much bull. Let’s put that baby to rest. When Jon Stewart, the comedian starts making fun of you for constantly saying job creators is they don’t know how to say the words millionaires and billionaires so they came up with this slogan which is false on its face.” I’d say anything that this moron Stewart sees as being necessary to be made fun of, just might be something that he’s trying convince people is totally unworthy of their consideration and should be ignored. Because besides it being the truth, it is something that just might help Republicans. I think that most people with absolutely any amount of intelligence can very plainly see that without his staff of writers standing behind him, Stewart is essentially just another dim bulb, not some brilliant mind that many claim. But hey, birds of a feather flock together, as they say.


So in her ridiculous rant Boxer, being completely unable to come up with anything that can even remotely be called an original thought on the subject, could do no better that to refer to comments that she heard Stewart make on, what I guess was, last Monday’s edition of his idiotic television show, “The Daily Show.” You have to wonder though, what does it say about the intelligence of a U.S. Senator who can do no better than to parrot what is being said by some moron standup comedian, even one who takes great pride in his being lauded as some brilliant political satirist or pundit, a supposed modern day Will Rogers? “Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as job creator. You can’t even use the word rich. You have to say, this chocolate cake is so moist and job creator,” is what Stewart said on his stupid little inconsequential program. It’s not funny and it’s not true. And it reveals a certain recklessness on Stewart’s part that he would so blatantly misrepresent the truth while he does nothing more than go in search of a laugh. He adds nothing of benefit to the discussion, he seeks only to distract from the seriousness of the situation by making fun of those who have the “only” viable plan for getting us out of the mess that his people got us into. These people are really quite pathetic.

AND THEN CAME "DINGY" HARRY...

You can always very plainly see how deeply it is that our dear "old" friend, "Dingy" Harry Reid, truly cares about the American people. He feels our pain as we fill up our gas tanks, buy food for our table, about not being able to find a job to support our families, or when the bank takes our home. So it was then after taking all of that into consideration and without even a hint of bipartisanship, that Senate Majority Leader "Dingy" Harry Reid on Thursday proclaimed the Republican deficit-reduction plan – the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act” – as a waste of the Senate’s time. “I think this piece of legislation is about as weak and senseless as anything that has ever come on this Senate floor. And I’m not going to waste the Senate’s time day after day on this piece of legislation, which I think is an anathema to what our country is all about,” "Dingy" said on the Senate floor.

Stating as only a true statist dunderhead like Reid could, he described things with his typical arrogant fashion by saying, “So everyone, understands. We’re going to have a vote tomorrow (Friday)…I’m not going to wait until Saturday. We’re going to have a vote tomorrow, and I feel confident this legislation will be disposed of one way or the other. The American people should understand that this is a bad piece of legislation – perhaps, some of the worst legislation in the history of this country.” Bad for who exactly, "Dingy?" Bad for you and Barry who want to spend this country into oblivion? What the Democrats are doing is nothing short of unconscionable. And really, the Republicans in the Senate, at least those in leadership positions, are no better. So, the vote will be today. And we need to be watching very closely to see how those who are supposed to be on our side vote.


The Republican proposal would cut government spending, cap the growth of future spending, and allow a vote on a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. "Dingy" invited Republicans to go ahead and debate the bill “to their heart’s content.” He also complained that “the loudest voices from the Republican Party are not reasonable leaders, but Tea Party extremists.” Again with the accusations of being extreme. If it is anyone who is operating from the extreme, it's "Dingy" and his fellow Democrats. In his comments on the Senate floor, "Dingy" urged “reasonable Republicans” to join Democrats in reaching a compromise “that is good for the country.” Such a compromise, he said, must avert default and cut the deficit “in a balanced way” – balance in this case meaning tax increases.


The House of Representatives passed the Cut, Cap and Balance bill on Tuesday. As House Speaker John Boehner noted, Senate Democrats still haven't passed legislation of their own to prevent a government default. "It's time for the Senate to act," he said. So far, all legislation attempting to put the country back on a sound fiscal footing has come from House Republicans. But the weak-kneed Republicans and in particular those involved in that idiotic "Gang of Six" have not help matter much as far as in getting this plan brought to the forefront. And I think it safe to say that they have been somewhat deliberate in their efforts to sabotage to entire plan by bringing out their ridiculous plan on the same day of the vote in House "Cut, Cap and Balance."


I heard Sen. Saxby Chambliss on Hannity's radio show yesterday, and talk about a clueless individual. This moron just doesn't get it! The three Republican stooges who took part in the "Gang of Six," served no other purpose than as willing accomplices to Barry "Almighty." This level of irresponsibility is not acceptable and cannot be permitted to continue. If guys like Chambliss insist upon being what are essentially unindicted co-conspirators here, then they need to go, and at the earliest possible opportunity. The stakes are too high for these buffoons in the Senate to do nothing more than to simply play politics. Action needs to be taken, and any Republican who chooses to vote against "Cut, Cap and Balance," should be considered as being very firmly in the enemy camp.

AND THE ATTACKS KEEP ON COMING, or, LIBERAL MORONS ON PARADE...

Apparently you can now count Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Democrat of course, as joining in amongst the growing number of those on the kook left fringe who now seem to have made a collective decision, that they must see as being to their political advantage, to present a united front against anything that the Republicans may try do to get our country back on track and on some semblance of firm fiscal footing. What this moron has now done was to essentially start taking pot shots at Republicans, as he made it quite clear that it is his opinion that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and the “dinosaur wing of the Republican Party” are actively trying to ruin the economy by undermining debt-ceiling negotiations. RUIN the economy? Where has this idiot been for the last two and a half years, living under a rock? (Not a reference to any GEICO commercial) If anybody can rightly be accused of trying to ruin the economy, and to a very large part succeeding in that endeavor, Mr. O'Malley need look no further than the current occupant of the Oval Office.

Speaking to reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday, this clown O’Malley described what he sees as being a scenario where certain elements of the GOP are trying to undermine the economy for not other reason that to harm Barry "Almighty" politically. O’Malley claimed that these Republicans are trying to either push the country into default or hurt the economy by cutting government jobs. I'm not sure I'm getting his rationale here, but I'm sure it must make sense to him. “I believe that there are some members – some members – of the Republican Party who, in order to defeat President Obama in the next election, would like to kill the jobs recovery now, either by default or by massive sudden cuts to public sector jobs,” O’Malley said. Jobs recovery? What jobs recovery? There have been over 2.4 millions jobs lost in the private sector since this guy's hero, Barry "Almighty" first came strutting in the White House. Barry has done more damage, nearly singlehandedly, than has the party to which Mr. O'Malley refers to as having a "dinosaur wing.”


When asked by CNSNews.com after the press conference which Republicans he was talking about, Gov. O’Malley firmly fingered the House Majority Leader and a “dinosaur wing” of the GOP. “I’m talking about Eric Cantor and the dinosaur wing of the Republican Party,” O’Malley said. Asked whether other conservative Republicans – such as Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) – might be part of his “dinosaur wing,” O’Malley refused to answer, saying only that he hoped the “Republican Party of Lincoln” would prevail. “I won’t go further than that because I want to allow space for the goodness of the Republican Party of Lincoln to re-emerge,” he said. This guy is so full of shit it amazing. Where does he get off talking about the party of Lincoln? You know, guys like this imbecile make me laugh. And who was it, exactly, back in Lincoln's time, who were working so hard to thwart Lincoln's efforts to put a stop to slavery? Ah, that would have been the Democrats! Mr. O'Malley's party is the party of slavery and of racism. Every segregationist that has ever served in Congress has been a Democrat. Mr. O'Malley would serve himself much better, I think, if he were to dismount from his rather high horse.


Then as now, Democrats have consistently been on the wrong side of everything that improves the live of the American people. All of the American people not just those who are stupid enough to vote for Democrats. There can now be no doubt, that what we now have is truly a band of liberal idiots on parade here. The level of hypocrisy now on display from these pathetic Democrats is nothing short of astounding. It's always they who are to be considered as the only ones who truly have America's best interests at heart. But really it's just the opposite that is much closer to the truth. Democrats are the biggest frauds to ever walk this planet. They are liars and deceivers of the highest order. And they mean to do this country and those who love it great and grievous harm. To believe anything that they have to say is to place yourself, and our country, in grave danger. Their sole purpose in life is to amass as much political power as is possible and to insure that they, and they alone, remain in positions of power. They are ideologes on a mission, and that mission is to destroy America.

A FEEBLE-MINDED TOM HARKIN SLAMS REPUBLICANS...

Poor old senile Tom Harkin, Democrat Senator from Iowa, has finally gone round that proverbial bend, either that or he must be imbibing just a bit too much Iowa corn and apparently in the liquid form. His brain, apparently, is now in the rather advanced stages of turning to mush, or is it mash. Whatever the reason, he seems to have now officially joined in the chorus of Democrat "Cut, Cap and Balance" naysayers and has now essentially set about accusing Republicans of being what he calls "dead-beat debtors," among other things. Man, is this guy clever, or what. It all came down during a Democrat press conference on Wednesday morning where old Tom was joined by some of the more stellar members of the Democrat Party. Sorry there Tom, but if you really want to see what a real dead-beat debtor looks like, just walk over to the nearest mirror. "The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there," Harkin said. The guy's a genius! Where does he some up with this stuff, by watching Jon Stewart? Either that or from that other mental midget, that former MSNBC star, Keith Olbermann. Either way, old Tom needs to find himself a new source for his snappy political innuendos, because he's starting to repeat himself.

Lying through his teeth, as is always the typical behavior that we have come to expect from any Democrat, poor old Tom said, "Democrats are willing to do whatever is necessary to raise the debt ceiling, not for future borrowing but to pay the debts that we racked up in the past. Which, mostly was racked up by a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican President in the last 8 years. Yet, they're not willing to pay the bills," Harkin said. Well duh, of course slimy Democrats are willing to do "whatever is necessary" to raise the debt ceiling, and to make the imbecilic claim that it's the Republicans who are solely to blame for "racking" up all the debt is more than just a little hypocritical. It also shows us that old Tom's mental condition may have deteriorated much more than any of us thought. You know, it's amazing how these sleazy Democrats were able to pass legislation that effectively seizes control our healthcare without ever having read it, while at the same time telling us about all of the great and wondrous things that it would do "for us." But this time around, in the case of the "Cut, Cap, and Balance" bill, they still obviously haven't bothered to read it, but now, it’s not so much about all of the nonexistent benefits that it will provide or all of the money that it will save, as it was with Obamacare, instead it's all about the severe damage that this legislation will do to our economy, the poor and America's reputation in being able to pay its bills.


And still another act that very clearly reveals that he is most definitely suffering from what can only be described as being some sort of mental disorder, Harkin went so far as to actually label the Republican Party as being "kind of a cult" at the Capitol on Wednesday. "The sad reality is that America no longer has a two party system. One of our two parties has morphed into a kind of a cult driven by a singular fixation and obsession – preserving and expanding tax breaks for the wealthy at all costs. This so-called balanced budget amendment would make it all but impossible to raise revenues in the future," said Harkin at a press conference on the "Cut, Cap and Balance" legislation passed by the GOP-led House on Tuesday. Look, if there is a political party that has morphed into some kind of screwy cult, that would very plainly be the Democrat Party. And while spewing the standard Democrat talking points and nothing more, old Tom rambled on saying, "This would permanently lock in the benefits of special tax breaks for the wealthy as well as the outrageous 15 percent tax rate for hedge fund billionaires so millionaires and billionaires get royal treatment. It’s the middle class would be devastated by the ‘Cut, Cap and Kill’ Medicare bill." This moron truly is living in some alternate universe. Harkin is living proof that yes, ignorance truly is bliss.

IF REPUBLICANS GO ALONG WITH THIS, THEY'RE OFFICIALLY DONE...

Barry "Almighty" has now thrown his support behind the proposal by the latest Senate gang, this time it's the "Gang of Six" senators, saying it was broadly consistent with his approach on reducing debt and deficits. And you gotta know that if Barry likes it can't be good for either the country of for the American people in general. He has urged Senate Majority Leader "Dingy" Harry Reid, a fellow Democrat, and Senate Republican leader Mitch "Spineless" McConnell to get started "talking turkey" about it. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, another scumbag Democrat and one of the six Democratic and Republican senators who have been working since December on a deficit-reduction plan, said the proposed $3.75 trillion in savings over 10 years contains $1.2 trillion in new revenues. I'm just wondering if the "savings" this moron is talking about are actual "cuts." Somehow I just don't think so. And don't you just love how these political scumbags think we're so stupid? Like we're not going to know that when they refer to new revenues what they're really talking about is new tax hikes.

The group briefed about half of the 100-member Senate and "the response was very favorable," Conrad told reporters. Hopefully he's talking about just the Democrat half. Because if the Republican half were favorable to this they're doing themselves, or the country, no favors. He said the group asked that fellow senators take 24 hours to look over the proposal and "report back to us." According to an executive summary of the plan, it would immediately impose $500 billion in deficit cuts, cut security and non-security spending over 10 years with spending caps, make the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs operate more efficiently and abolish the Alternative Minimum Tax. In short, it comes nowhere near to addressing the problem on the level that it presently needs to be addressed. Asked whether the plan could become part of urgent negotiations that link deficit reduction to raising the U.S. government's borrowing authority by August 2, Conrad said: "Could the two get married? Could they get combined at some point? I'm sure that's possible." It had better not be possible, on any level!


Conrad was quick to say that while there are $1.2 trillion in new revenues, the overall plan envisions a $1.5 trillion tax cut that would be achieved through broad tax reforms. Empty rhetoric designed to nothing more than to pacify. Most Republicans, especially Tea Party members in the House of Representatives, have already vowed to block any revenue increases, and if they're smart they'll stick to that. The Senate group's hope has been that if the three conservative Republican members embrace revenue increases, the idea could catch fire among other Republicans in the Senate and House, especially if popular but expensive entitlement programs such as Medicare also shoulder some cuts. If any Republican members chooses to "embrace" this thing, then we'll know one thing for certain, he or she is not a conservative. In what is portrayed as being another politically risky move, the Gang of Six plan would achieve significant savings in healthcare programs, Conrad said. The specific spending cuts would be decided later by congressional committees.


Conrad said a separate measure would reform the Social Security retirement program to stabilize its finances for the next 75 years. The effort got a boost as conservative Republican Senator Tom Coburn rejoined the group after taking a "sabbatical" in mid-May amid heavy disagreement over Medicare spending cuts. It was not yet clear how Coburn's concerns have since been addressed. And if Coburn signs on to this things he's no conservative either. On Monday, Coburn unveiled his own plan to cut $9 trillion in deficits over a decade, including nearly $1 trillion in revenue increases. Revenue proposals are not likely to include income tax rate increases. Instead, they could center on repealing or rolling back special tax favors such as those for ethanol blenders and companies that operate corporate jets, as well as preferential tax treatment for fund managers. On the face of it, Coburn's own plan sound more palatable than what the "Gang of Six" has concocted.


Also those on the political left have been pressing both the White House and Congress pretty hard to inflict a wave of very substantial budget cuts for the Pentagon on a scale not seen since the post-Cold War 1990s. Liberals are now enthusiastically using the excuse of the debt crisis and present troop drawdowns from Iraq and Afghanistan to argue that now is the perfect time for the Defense Department to shed people, missions and weapons after a decade of doubling arms spending after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The proposals, including one from the ultra-Liberal Center for America Progress, go well beyond Barry "Almighty's" call in April for $400 billion in defense cuts over 12 years. The center, run by leftist loon John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to "BJ" Clinton, wants that much in reductions over the next three years and $1 trillion more from what had been projected increases over the next decade.


Some House Democrats, led by that kook and well-known "Gay Caballero," Rep. Bawney Fwank of Massachusetts, also have called for $1 trillion in cuts. “I think this is the time because of a combination of the deficit and the changing way in which we’re going to deal with threats from groups like al Qaeda,” said American Progress’ Lawrence Korb, a longtime defense analyst in Washington. Mr. Korb said the Obama administration has dumped President George W. Bush’s overall war strategy of preemptive attacks against terrorist states, and he cited just-retired Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ warning against any future land wars in the Middle East. The bottom line is that the center wants projected increases ended and the overall arms budget reduced to $500 billion by 2016, which would be $111 billion below the Pentagon’s already pared-down projection. “Gates said we don’t have to go back to Cold War levels,” Mr. Korb said. “Well, we’re above Cold War levels. And that’s part of the problem."


Gordon Adams, a defense budget official in the "Slick Willie" White House, told the House Budget Committee this month that Barry’s $400 billion number “is a very small step.” He endorsed, and is very much in favor of, the more than doubling of that figure. The Pentagon has not heard such outlandish "peace dividend" rhetoric since the Berlin Wall fell and Presidents "BJ" Clinton and George H.W. Bush squeezed as much as 35 percent out of intelligence and defense spending. And it readily apparent where that landed us. Anybody still remember 9/11. Not many I'm afraid! But it was after al Qaeda’s attack on the United States, that defense proponents said that such a deep downturn had been a serious mistake, leaving intelligence agencies and some aspects of the military not ready to fight a global war against terrorists. Now, they say, America is about to repeat the mistake, as China and Iran flex their muscles and radical Islam remains a global threat. So is this really the time to be quite literally slashing out defense capabilities? Apparently Bawney thinks so.


Daniel Goure, an analyst at the pro-business Lexington Institute, said the left has it entirely all wrong. The Pentagon needs more money, unless it abandons or curtails its presence in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, he said. “You’d better change our military approach to the world,” said Mr. Goure. “If you do what we did the last time, which is to essentially salami slice, take bits and pieces from everything and everybody, then you are essentially going to back where you were after Vietnam and at the end of the Cold War drawdown. Too many missions. Too many deployments. Not enough stuff. Not enough people.” But you see. All of this is of very little concern to Liberal Democrats. Democrat like Bawney and Barry could not care less if America is left very much exposed to our growing number of potential, and very real, adversaries. They view us as being deserving of whatever harm may befall us. They are a most demented group of people and what they are proposing is essentially nothing short of suicide.


That stalwart group and ardent defender of our democracy, The Center for American Progress, also proposes a list of weapons terminations and troop cutbacks. The number of V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft would be stopped at about 150. The next-generation workhorse jet fighter, the F-35 — which is mired in big cost overruns, would be bought only for the Air Force, not the Navy or Marine Corps. The Navy’s 11 carriers, a key way America projects immediate air power overseas, would be trimmed to nine, and with it other surface ships. A full third of 150,000 troops in Europe and Asia would be ordered home. “You may not be able to keep as many carriers forward-deployed,” said Mr. Korb. “You would have to surge them, but I don’t see any missions you could not do.” This is nothing short of pure, unadulterated insanity. And what really scary, at least for me, is the fact that the only thing that stand between this plan becoming a reality and it being stopped dead in it's tracks, is the Republican Party. And frankly, I'm not sure it's members in Congress are up to the task!


House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, released a detailed budget plan that calls for modest defense drawdowns over five years. He argued that the Defense Department’s total budget share already has decreased from 25 percent to 20 percent. A smattering of faux conservatives are advocating more shrinkage. Some Republicans on Barry's deficit commission supported cuts above $400 million. With all troops due to be pulled out of Iraq this year and Afghanistan by 2014, the Pentagon could save $100 billion annually on those two accounts alone. Mr. Gates instituted more than $100 billion in savings, although some of that money was redirected into other arms programs. I'm a not a strong proponent of anything but the most minimal cuts in defense. And I am counting on the Republicans in Congress to prevent some of these more blatantly irresponsible cuts from taking place.


The next phase is likely to be revealed in Mr. Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget in February or in some grand deficit-reduction agreement between him and Congress. Adm. Mike "Yes Man" Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this year: “We can’t hold ourselves exempt from the belt-tightening. Neither can we allow ourselves to contribute to the very debt that puts our long-term security at risk.” Defense Secretary and "BJ" Clinton retread, Leon E. Panetta, who proved a hawkish director of the CIA, vowed to Congress that he would not let the military go hollow as it did in the late 1970s. Sure there Leon, as my dad used to say, "Talk is cheap, it takes money to buy whiskey." On July 8, he urged the White House and Congress to base cuts on a strategy. He expressed his concern about negotiators who would “just pick a number and throw it at the Defense Department without really looking at policy, without looking at what makes sense." I just don't see him as standing up to either Barry or the Democrats in Congress when it come to making what are sure to be some very excessive cuts in our national defense.


So anyway, I think the ball is going to be very firmly in the Republican's court, and the question remains, will they be up to the challenge. Past history would tell us probably not, which does not bode well for our being able to survive as that beacon of freedom for very much longer. Barry has decided that he is the one to preside over the American stature and reduce the prominent role that it had to play in world events. And that is something that does not bode well for the entire planet. The stability that had as its foundation the United States of America will be no more. The resulting chaos will cause the world to descend into what Ronald Reagan described as being "1000 years of darkness." I pity what may lie ahead for our children and our children's children. And we will have brought this all on ourselves through the election of one man and the weakness of the Republican Party to stand up to him. They remain our last line of defense against what is the obvious insanity of this man and his party. Our president and the political party of which he is a member hate our country and are determined to destroy it. GOD HELP US.

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO GO DOWN THIS ROAD YET AGAIN…

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.