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dmaestro 03-Jan-13, 00:19 |
 Thanks Speaker Boehner...Shame on you, you heartless partisan creep! But once again you proved to a majority of Americans why we do NOT want the GOP back in power. |
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by Rep. Jeff Landry (R-LA) 2 Jan 2013 It’s an embarrassing time to be a Republican Congressman—albeit an outgoing Congressman. As negotiators, we utterly failed to meet our two objectives: to reduce spending and prevent tax increases. President Obama demanded tax increases with small spending cuts, and that’s exactly what passed. Thanks to the leadership of Speaker John Boehner, the House passed a bill which raises taxes by $620 billion while cutting spending by a mere $15 billion over 10 years. Usually, a compromise is an even trade (one-for-one). In this trade, House and Senate Republicans traded $41 dollars in tax hikes for every $1 dollar in spending cuts—not exactly a balanced approach. Conservatives can thank the Republican establishment for this profound failure. While establishment Republicans and the media blamed Tea Party conservatives for holding up a deal, we found out last night that Speaker Boehner was willing all along to balk 150 members of his caucus and join with the Democrats to raise taxes. Speaker Boehner and his merry band of establishment Republicans wanted to blame the tea party freshman for putting him between a rock and a hard place during these negotiations, but that wasn't the case. The truth is, protecting the establishment from their own votes is what has put him in such an untenable spot. By running out the clock, the Speaker gave his establishment members cover to vote for a deal with President Obama. Boehner is more interested in cutting deals that don't rock the boat with President Obama than defending conservative, debt-reduction principles. This type of compromise is what gave us this fiscal cliff in the first place. In the last two years, the Speaker has given the Democrats exactly what they wanted. Remember, he agreed to creating the failed Super Committee—planted as a Trojan Horse by Reid and the President—which gave Democrats what they really wanted: deep cuts to the military and tax increases, both of which they could blame on Republicans. In the last month, he destroyed his negotiation leverage by starting with an opening offer of an $800 billion tax hike. Instead of forcing President Obama to lead, he capitulated more revenue every time President Obama gave a counter-offer. He spoiled the political capital given him in the 2010 elections. He negotiated with himself, he never forced Obama to lead, and he never forced the President to put his offers in a bill and force Democrats to vote on it. All the while, Speaker Boehner’s approval rating has dropped to 17%—lower than Nancy Pelosi and every other national leader. His speakership has been a massive failure. The question is begged, should Speaker Boehner remain? Moving forward, he will never embrace a successful narrative to lead conservatives into policy and electoral victories. He’ll only lead us to more capitulation, more tax hikes, and more spending. So will Republicans let Boehner lead us to electoral defeat in 2014? Democrats will run against Boehner in 2014 like Republicans ran against Nancy Pelosi in 2010. Unpopular Speakers are toxic in swing districts, and there’s no question Republicans will struggle to keep the House under Boehner’s unpopular leadership. Then a majority of Americans enter the voting booth in 2014 and 2016, they should be thinking that the "Obama Taxes," the "Obama deficits," and "Obamacare” are the cause of their discontent. However, if Boehner retains the gavel, the American people likely will blame both he and the President—giving up any high ground conservatives had. Republicans like Speaker Boehner are holding hands with Democrats to their own demise. They’ll share the blame for the “Boehner-Obama tax increases” and the “Boehner-Obama deficits.” As an outgoing member of Congress, let me say what my colleagues can’t: We need fresh leadership now, or the Republican party will lose in 2014 and beyond. We can’t afford to lose the debt ceiling debates, the budget debates, and every battle in between. We need a leader to make a moral case for the Republican vision, not to fall into President Obama’s narrative and negotiation ploys. For our movement’s sake, I hope someone steps up to the challenge tomorrow on the House floor. Congressman Jeff Landry represents the Louisiana’s 3rd district. Today is his last day in office. www.breitbart.com |
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Surprise! Republican Leaders Have No Backbone Charlotte Cushman On January 1, 2012 the Republican leadership broke their promise about not raising taxes on the rich. "The deal passed by the Senate early this morning, with the endorsement of all but seven of the 47 Republicans, would raise $620 billion in new revenue, hiking tax rates on households earning more than $450,000 a year." "'Keep in mind that just last month Republicans in Congress said they would never agree to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans,' President Obama said Monday. 'Obviously, the agreement that's currently being discussed would raise those rates and raise them permanently.'" It reminds me of the speech that Yaron Brook gave at the Tea Party Patriots Summit in Arizona February 25, 2011 when he talked about the Republicans having a hard time with the budget. He said, "They don't have a principle." The Founding Fathers had a principle. I find it interesting that for all the attention that the Founding Fathers are getting right now, people are still missing the one principle that they stood for, a principle without which there never would have been a United States of America. It is this single idea that all the rest of their ideas rested upon and it is how they came up with our unique system of government. Does any Republican leader even know what that one principle is, let alone stick to it? Yet the Founders were willing to risk their lives and everything they had for it -- the principle of individual rights. Individual rights are spelled out very clearly in the Declaration of Independence: Our rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (our happiness, not anyone else's). They went on to say that the government was created among men to protect those rights. And that is all the government should be doing. It is very depressing to see these Republicans just bow down to the wicked, to our enslavers, and give them everything they want. The men of today have absolutely nothing in common with the men of 1776. Yaron Brook pointed this out about the Founding Fathers: "They didn't say, 'We just want a little bit less taxes, please, King George.' They didn't say, 'Give us some liberty, please, King George.' They changed the world because they asked a fundamental question. And the question they asked is, 'Who does your life -- does my life -- belong to?' That's a question that people had never asked, because it was always obvious: your life belongs to the state, to the king, to some emperor, to somebody else -- and it's your job to do his bidding. The Founders of this country said 'No: sovereignty belongs with the individual. My life is mine. Your life is yours. And nobody can take that away -- not a king; but not even a majority!" Until politicians come forth that understand this principle and have the courage to act on this principle there will be no change. We can just count on more compromises as they bend over to satisfy those who want to control our lives. And our time is running out. Charlotte Cushman is a Montessori educator at Minnesota Renaissance School, Anoka, Minnesota and has been involved in the study of Ayn Rand's philosophy since 1970. www.americanthinker.com |
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