just a vote<\/em>. This is wholly unacceptable. If Barack Obama wants to increase the debt ceiling, the GOP should go all or nothing \u2014 they must have their Balanced Budget Amendment in exchange for it. A vote is utter nonsense without a commitment from the Democrats to pass it by a two-thirds vote from both Houses.<\/p>\nBut it gets more insane from there. Everything we feared, everything we knew would happen, is coming to fruition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because you, the “Senate GOP Leadership”, the ones who’ve been there forever, fear another government shutdown.\u00a0 You remember – and have created a mid-level “leadership” that remembers – how badly the last shutdown cost you at the polls.<\/p>\n
But that was in the cha-cha nineties, when things were generally awesome and the greatest crisis facing this nation was a lothario President, when the stock market was booming and people were generally fat ‘n happy, and the media was only too happy to tell them so.<\/p>\n
But – I’ll emphasize this – it’s 2011 now<\/em>.\u00a0 The Obama Recession is underway.\u00a0 A vast movement of Americans has had enough<\/em>.\u00a0 They reversed the Obamascenscion and put your – our – party back in power twenty years earlier than anyone thought it would be possible<\/em> in 2009.\u00a0 Because we are <\/strong>that pissed off<\/em>!\u00a0 There is a blogosphere, and talk radio, and Fox News; the mainstream media don’t have the stage all to themselves.\u00a0 We can control our own narrative this time <\/em>– if you are bold enough to seize the opportunity.<\/p>\nYou, the “leadership”, apparently don’t get that.\u00a0 Erickson (again, emphasis added):<\/p>\n
Why? Because the GOP is finally being forced by the base to push for actual, substantive spending cuts instead of the death by a thousand paper cuts strategy of the leadership…Luckily for us, conservatives made such a stink about the last short term CR being, in fact, the last short term CR, the GOP is now forced to be a leader. The leaders are, however, reluctant.<\/p>\n
Look, it is very simple \u2014 demand passage of a balanced budget amendment, defund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood, and if the Democrats balk, shut the government down<\/strong>.<\/p>\nUnfortunately for you and me, the GOP leadership is scared to death of and hell bent on avoiding a government shutdown. They may have no choice, so they better get ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Look – here’s the deal; we sent you there to kick ass, and kick Ass.\u00a0 We sent you there to repeal Obamacare, to slash spending, to roll back tax hikes.<\/p>\n
And we – the people who sent you to Washington <\/em>in the greatest electoral turnaround in decades – are hungry for exactly that<\/em>.<\/p>\nAnd if you don’t have the cojones <\/em>to do the job, we will send someone to DC that does.<\/em><\/p>\nCut the budget.\u00a0 Shut down the government if you need to.\u00a0 We’ll be there if you do.\u00a0 The situation is different than in the nineties;\u00a0 the media that covered the Democrats’ behinds back then doesn’t have a complete stranglehold now.\u00a0 So do it.\u00a0 Do what we sent you there to do.<\/p>\n
And if you don’t?\u00a0 You can join your constituents on the unemployment line.\u00a0 Soon.<\/p>\n
Do it.<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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