Senate to vote on “cut, cap, and balance” plan tomorrow
It is being reported here that the Senate has scheduled a cloture vote on the House’s “cut, cap, and balance” debt ceiling bill for tomorrow, and this was confirmed by my House Representative Frank Guinta in a live telephone conference call which I participated in earlier today.
Frank Guinta reaffirmed what most of us thought was fact; this bill has basically has no chance of passing the Senate with the 60 votes required to send the bill to the floor for debate and an up or down vote, but he remained hopeful that over 50 Senators would vote in favor of the legislation. Harry Reid’s statement on this bill confirms the notion that this will fail in the senate when he declared that this was the “worst piece of legislation in the history if this country.” We can debate this asinine statement all we want, but that is not what is at issue here.
Frank Guinta believes that if more than 50 Senators vote in favor of this bill, coupled with a poll he quoted–I forget which one–that found 70% of Americans support a balanced budget amendment as a condition to raising the debt ceiling, that this would send a clear message to the president that there is real support for this legislation among the American people. And that just might be true, but what my congressman is forgetting is the fact that Barack Obama simply does not give a damn what the American people want because he doesn’t feel as if we are smart enough to understand the problem in the first place.
This issue is really starting to heat up and it will be interesting to see if my congressman is right; will there actually be a majority of Senators voting in favor of this proposal? If so my Frank Guinta will be right; a message will be sent to the president that many people in the country actually support this measure, but we have already seen what the president thinks of the American people and their opinion.
Once this bill is pushed aside in the Senate all of the focus will be on the “gang of six” proposal which is making its way through the Senate as I write this and Frank Guinta has assured his constituents during this telephone conference that the House will never vote in favor of such a proposal even if it makes its way through the Senate; they are committed to holding firm on the no new taxes promise which helped bring them to power last year.
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Steve, unfortunately I believe you are right – His Anointedness could care less about the Will Of The People. His arrogance and lust for absolute power know no bounds. I think the best we can hope for is minimal damage before Nov. 6, 2012. And then a 2 1/2 month lame duck. Even without 4 more years, I still shudder at the thought of his Lameduckedness. Could be a lot of carnage.
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Even with an election victory in 2012 we will have to be very wary of that lame duck session, he could go for everything all at once knowing he has nothing left to lose.
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This whole thing is a shell game, meant to agitate, poke and prod the conservative movement.
Obama will most likely follow Clinton’s suggestion, regarding raising the debt ceiling, and thumb his nose at Congress and order the ceiling raised by Executive Order,
Obama wasn’t bluffing when he warned, “Don’t call my bluff!”
Paralleling Caesar’s part in the fall of Rome, Obama will most likely follow Clinton’s suggestion, regarding raising the debt ceiling, and thumb his nose at Congress and govern by Executive Order, …. as he’s begun to on other issues, making Congress near obsolete!
According to Bruce Bartlett, former policy analyst for the Reagan Administration, the 14th Amendment not only demands America’s debt be paid, it justifies the president acting on his own to raise the debt ceiling.
Clinton told “The National Memo’s” Joe Conason, that if he were in Obama’s situation, that’s what he’d do …. that he‘d invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to raise America’s debt ceiling “without hesitation, and force the courts to stop me.”
That would not only deflate the Tea Partyer’s demands; it would distract the media from what divisiveness, Obama continues to work, behind closed doors
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And you know the courts wouldn’t stop him either because we have already seen him ignore court orders in the past.
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Now this is poker. Who will flinch first?
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It is getting interesting to watch, that’s for sure.
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Why did the “Gang of 6” put out their compromise on the same day this was to be voted on? Another thing that really irritates me is the way they figure budgets and other fiscal issues. There are so many different ways they use to figure these numbers you just know your going to get the stinky end of the stick. It is like polling. Just change the question a little until you get the results you need. And when they tell you it will save X amount in X number of years ( usually not to coincide with their re-election) you know they are lying. Liars figure and figures lie.
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I heard Chambliss on the radio today and he claimed they have been working on this bill for months and that it was not part of the debt ceiling debate. The president sure made it sound as if it was part of the debt ceiling debate. Chambliss also claimed it was coincidence the bill was nnounced on the same day as the vote on cut, cap, and balance. I am not buying that one.
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Please call (I called mine) your two Senators and DEMAND that they pass the Cut, Cap and Balance Act to save our country from bankruptcy. Thanks, 777denny
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Well, it has failed as expected and my Senators voted one in favor and one against.
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God Bless those who stand firm on Cut-Cap-Balance and GD those who don’t. Because it is the virtuous-Moral thing to do.
I called my Senators…don’t have to worry about Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson is an ASSLIB.
Please call these 3 Sen. I deleted their names but the ph#’s are: 202-224-3954 402-391-3411 and 406-252-0550 These dudes are called ‘Vulnerable’ by a TeaParty Action Group.
God Bless and Aloha !
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