McConnell’s Uber-Clever Debt-Deal Stratagem

Larry Kudlow   "Sen. Mitch McConnell’s grand design may prove to be more powerful than people think."
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"Other Republican sources are telling me they do not want to risk the destruction of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency by allowing a debt default or a downgrade. Eighty million checks have to go out. Otherwise the GOP could be blamed.
"So one way or the other the tide is turning toward a deal. Credit McConnell’s uber-clever stratagem."



Napoleon Obamapart by Alexander
 Hunter for The Washington Times



Obama Owns the Debt-Ceiling Fiasco  "His tone also hasn't helped achieve a comprehensive agreement. The president's two most recent press conferences, in which he accused the GOP of foot-dragging, convinced Republicans that he was interested in scoring political points and attracting independents, not facilitating a deal. Convening high-profile White House meetings without offering substantive concrete proposals and then having his aides leak madly (and inaccurately) to the press afterward further squandered trust."  Karl Rove.

Obama’s Waterloo; By overreaching, the president has positioned himself for defeat:  "Republicans have a golden opportunity to break Barack Obama’s presidency, ensuring he will be a one-termer. Mr. Obama has backed himself into a corner on the debt-limit talks; the GOP can smash his re-election prospectsif they have the will - and intelligence - to do it"

http://terrellaftermath.com/
       

Democrat demagoguery

Resorting to scare tactics "It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Democrat National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I can understand why. She is ripe with over-the-top quotes that do nothing to further an intellectual debate. In short .. she’s the perfect person to have running the DNC. She’s a loon, and you can only imagine the type of people who vote in her district. Before we continue, let us recount a few of her recent quotes, shall we?"

And speaking of reckless rhetoric  "Obama knows damn well that the Social Security checks are going out in August. He knows it, Congressional Democrats and Republicans know it, and the ObamaMedia knows it; but all of these people also know that senior citizens who rely on Social Security and a good percentage of the dumb masses DON’T know it. So what Obama was really saying to these people was that the evil Republicans hate old people and will take their money away from them if they don’t get their spending cuts. Common political hacks might resort to this type of demagoguery, but it’s really a pity when the President of the United States does this … but that’s Obama for you. Truly classless."
Neal Boortz

One President Left Behind: McConnell Schools Obama on Debt

Ann Coulter  "But now, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has checkmated the Democrats. He has proposed a bill that will allow Obama to raise the debt ceiling three times, up to $2.4 trillion, over the next 18 months, but only provided Obama proposes equivalent cuts in spending each time.
"Finally, the Democrats will be forced to pony up spending cuts -- or default on the debt and crash the economy."

From Verum Serum: Call His Freaking Bluff   "This is why negotiations like this never, ever work out for conservatives. In the end, it really does matter that almost the entire media is on the President’s side. It matters that the judgment call about whether the President is said to be cracking or standing on principle will always turn out favorably for him. It matters that the Greek chorus of the left is already damning Cantor for failing to play the President’s game. In these close situations, the press is never averse to putting a thumb on the scales."
 

Obama Aims for the Money You Don’t “Need” "Over the past several weeks, America has seen on grand display in Washington a singular mindset emanating from the White House: We must raise taxes so that we can keep on spending. This week, though, America was treated to something different—a glimpse inside President Barack Obama’s mind, a roadmap of his economic worldview. And what was revealed was a philosophy that is fundamentally at odds with America’s job creators.
"That insight came during the President’s press conference on Monday in which he broached the subject of raising taxes as part of the debt limit deal:"....

Democrats go hardball on tax hikes while Republicans play softball. "The president is now calling for a “big” deal that would reduce the debt by $4 t[r]illion over ten years, while we’ll borrow more than a third of that this year. In fact, over those ten years, we are expected to run up more than $13 trillion in new debt."


Leadership by Default  "Obama is at it again, saying fine things about cutting trillions of spending without making any public disclosure of what specifically he would cut. At the same time he is portraying the Republicans as obstructionists who are threatening Grandma’s Social Security checks."


Obama walks out of debt limit talks Wednesday   "Wednesday’s meeting came to a quick halt when Speaker of the House John Boehner responded negatively to spending cuts offered by the White House and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor offered to support two separate debt ceiling votes."

“Eric, don’t call my bluff,”  "CBS says President Obama “abruptly” left the debt negotiations meeting with Congress. He said “enough’s enough” and that he had been “very patient.”"

Obama 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 . . .

Victor Davis Hanson  "But the ad hoc making-it-up-as-he-goes-along that comes from inexperience explains just as much: From 2009 to 2010, the creed was gorge the beast — borrow so much money for pet programs and liberal nostrums that higher taxes would have to follow, a good redistributive thing in itself. When that didn’t happen, he suddenly froze and for the first time in 30 months is talking, in Jerry Brown post–Prop 13 style, of reining in the debt that he himself advocated and piled up."

http://www.comicallyincorrect.com/comicallyincorrect_002.htm

Light bulb ban repeal bill fails in the House

Washington Times  "The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, H.R. 2417 would end federal bulb standards passed in 2007 that Republicans have since held up as a prime example of federal overreach. House Republicans brought up the bill under a suspension of the rules, which requires two-thirds of voting members to support it.


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"That means even though a majority might support it, it is unlikely to be approved Tuesday in light of Democratic opposition."

House GOP fails to turn off light bulb standards  "Republican presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota complained earlier this year that, under President Barack Obama, "we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy.""



The BULB Act and the Inertia of the Administrative State  "If “we the people” can’t even reverse a lousy federal ban on incandescent light bulbs, how will we see the light on the larger things of our national future?"

Environmental Release of Mercury from Broken Compact Fluorescent Lamps   January 18, 2011

  "A new study published in Environmental Engineering Science warns that after it is broken, a CFL bulb continues to release mercury vapor into the air for up to months at a time at a level that may be unfit for human exposure."  So keep the EPA guidelines handy.

Mitch McConnell Sets The 2012 Narrative

Legal Insurrection  "I have praised Mitch McConnell before, when he was fighting an almost impossible battle to hold the line in the Senate on a variety of issues when the Democrats had a filibuster-proof or near filibuster-proof majority.
"Now McConnell may have set the narrative for 2012 on the most important issue facing the nation, the national debt. That narrative is that no real deal is possible so long as Obama is President, as reported by The Wall Street Journal:"...

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/ericallie

‘MILF’: How the MSM Uses Popular Culture To Do Their Dirty Work

Big Hollywood  "Piers Morgan is a CNN primetime host, a valued position at a cable news network that likes to present itself as down-the-middle, objective, centrist, and fair … everything it says their competition is not. But if you watch the clip below, you have to ask yourself why a supposedly objective news outlet would host a comedian famous for being vulgar and openly hostile towards conservative women.
"And it gets worse…"



"Well, if you notice, when Maher refers to Governor Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann as MILFs, Morgan audibly chuckles.
"That explains a lot."

Lights Out for the Light Bulb Ban?

The Foundry  "Some politicians in Washington don’t think you’re all that bright. They believe that you can’t make wise decisions in your day-to-day life, so they have taken it upon themselves to impose regulations to protect you from yourself. And there’s no better example than Congress’ ban on the incandescent light bulb, which is up for repeal in the House today."

House to Vote on Lightbulb-Ban Repeal


"Thankfully, the House is finally making moves to repeal this - at best, ill-thought-out; at worst, you-will-go-green-and-you-will-like-it - law. On Monday, expect to see a vote on the Better Use of Lightbulbs (BULB) Act, meant to reverse the 2007 law's provision on banning incandescents."

The Unbearable Smugness of Liberals: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Pajamas Media   "Belladonna's first PJ Advice column answers the age-old question: How do you deal with the intense anger and condescension that Democrats express toward conservatives?"

...what I find increasingly unpleasant is how smug and nasty liberal Democrats are when referring to conservatives, Republicans, or even independents. I’d like to remain close to old friends and form new friendships, too. How do you suggest I deal with the demeaning attitudes and intense anger that so many liberals express toward conservatives these days?

Smug liberal photographer,

Read Leftycartoons For Your Daily Dose of Liberal Smugness

Trivia Quiz Proves Liberals Smug, Anti-American

Why are liberals so condescending? "This condescension is part of a liberal tradition that for generations has impoverished American debates over the economy, society and the functions of government — and threatens to do so again today, when dialogue would be more valuable than ever."

Karl Marx

Engaging with a liberal about 'fairness'  "...the purpose of taxation is to raise the revenue that is needed to fund the essential and constitutionally appropriate functions of government. The left goes further – much further – with this. They view the power to tax – the power to seize property from an individual citizen at the point of a gun – as the power to reorder a free society to more closely mirror their ideas and desires. This is why these social engineers will always start bleating about “fairness” When progs start talking about fairness any chance for rational discussion is out the window." ....

What is considered “fair” and who gets to define it?

How Islamic Absurdities Prove Islamic Violence

Raymond Ibrahim  "In other words, the Muslim mentality that feels the need to address adult breastfeeding, simply because Muhammad once advised it, must certainly be sold on the prophet's constant incitements for war and conquest.''
"Living in an era where the Muslim world is significantly weaker than the infidel world, and so currently incapable of launching a full-on offensive, one may overlook this fact. But the intention is surely there. One need only look to how non-Muslim minorities, especially Christians, are treated in the Muslim world — where they are persecuted, kidnapped, raped and ransacked — to be sure of it."

radicalislam.org

AUSTRALIA: ‘LIBERAL’ political advisor axed for speaking the truth about Islam


"A record of his posts between March 24 and June 17, obtained by The Sun-Herald, show the criticism only spurred him on to make more offensive remarks. ”The religious babble you refer to is Islam,” he commented on June 4. ”There was no war. It was terrorism. Muhammad was the first terrorist in the name of Islam.”
"He followed up with: “Why are you getting upset? I’m not the one who is teaching others to kill in the name of Islam. Mohommed is not my hero.”"

Obama’s Libya Venture and Double Standards

Bruce S. Thornton  "The champion of shameless chutzpah has always been the guy who murders his parents then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan. But White House spokesman Jay Carney might be the new champ, given his response to the House vote not to authorize President Obama’s un-war in Libya: “We think now is not the time to send the kind of mixed message that it sends when we are working with our allies to achieve the goals that we believe are widely shared in Congress.”
"A Democrat like Carney has to be brimming with chutzpah to talk about sending a “mixed message” to our allies and enemies. What did his party do for eight years but undercut with “mixed messages” President Bush’s foreign policy? Bush was “working with our allies” in Iraq and Afghanistan to pursue the presumably “widely shared goals” of making us secure by destroying jihadist bases, taking out dysfunctional regimes that facilitated terrorism, and replacing them with democratic governments. And unlike Obama and his Libyan adventure, he obtained Congressional approval for both wars. But once the tin-pot Jacobin Howard Dean gained political traction by exploiting a left-wing-organized anti-war movement, major Democratic politicians felt no compunction in undercutting our efforts, knowing full well that we are fighting an enemy who knows it cannot win on the battlefield, but only by destroying our morale — precisely the strategy that those “mixed messages” aided and abetted. "  More...