Ok, yesterday turned out to be another nail biting day and not the big day.
Warning: today might be the same
I’d like to add a few things to my observations yesterday.
1) I was asked about the crazy tea partiers and how can they think like they do. I think this NYPost column by Charles Gasparino spells it out one aspect pretty well. Tea Partiers came into being because Obamacare was their last straw of government spending/interference. They’d/we’d just put up with TARP and the stimulus and cash for clunkers and and and and. Tea Partiers rose up and said screw it. Every freaking “save” from hell is for the benefit of the big. And all in trust of what famed economists are promising.
When was the last time a famed economist predicted correctly?
See. The world will end as we know it if the debt ceiling is not raised. I am cynical, or it trusting enough to believe it and I don’t want to risk it. Tea Partiers have said “Enough!”.
I said yesterday we are not a “conservative nation” and tea partiers don’t get to win everything. However, they do have the power to stop this because they represent a huge portion of Americans. That needs to be respected.
2) I heard a man on the radio last night getting interviewed and though….”He makes sense!” Who was it?
John Bolton. I like that guy. Anyway he likened this to a battle and I have to agree.
Conservatives have not won the government but they can if they are smart and strategic. This debt ceiling thing is a battle to be won and not an answer to all our problems. What Boehner has strung together can be called a solid “win” leaving the right with more power for the next battle.
IF tea partiers decide that this is the war and not just a battle, then me thinks their strategy will fail and the actual war will be lost.
(I suppose such words are enticement for violence, but nyah, nyah)
So I say – once again – call your representatives and support Mr. Boehner today. This is a strong win.
Read Jennifer Rubin
Read Charles Krauthammer who is also thinking of this as part of a long term strategy to win back the White House and this country. As he says “We’re only at the midpoint”.
Also read House of Eratosthenes who holds the more conservative position. He’s got what people know in their guts. We can’t function this way forever and now is the time to change that.
I am a TEA Partier and I am not trusting enough to believe that if the debt ceiling is not raised “the world will end as we know it.” But I am cynical enough to believe that Washington will never allow us to find out, that they will absolutely cave in to the fear mongering and raise the debt limit, and thus I support the Boehner plan as the best way to give in. I see it as a substantive enough cut to show independent voters, “see, the world does not end when government spending is cut” and to convince them to send more Republicans to Washington to do a bigger and better job next time.
Those in the Rand Paul camp seem to believe this will be their last best chance to rein in an out of control government. I believe there isn’t a single bill big enough to do that, no matter what is in it.
I completely agree.
Am I a “tea partier”….I’m not sure what that means, but sure, I’m “mad as hell and don’t want to take it anymore”, so yes.
Jim DeMint is NOT my spokesperson however, nor is Michelle Bachman so…maybe I’m not.