Speaker Boehner posted this summary of the debt ceiling deal last night (July 31, 2011).
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Rep. Kristi Noem – “this battle is why we were sent here”
Teaparty freshman Kristi Noem (R-SD) told Greta that Teaparty congressmen were sent to Washington to make a difference. “We all campaigned last year recognizing that this crisis is coming. Everybody talks about doing this at the last minute, well we’ve talked about it for a year and a half and we firmly believe that this battle is why we were sent here.”
The Corrupt Bargain
The grassroots Tea Party that swept the 2010 elections and made Boehner Speaker clearly want an end to an ever-increasing debt. Yet every plan of the perpetually-re-elected Republicans merely slows the growth of the debt they do not reduce the debt.
Palin warns GOP – again – Hold the line!
Sarah Palin reiterated her previous warning to incoming GOP freshmen in 2010 in a posting on her Facebook page. She echoes Mel Gibson’s character in the movie The Patriot where he is admonishing the American rebels in a battle with the British “Hold the line! Hold the line!”
Bachmann – Romney tie in NJ and NC bodes well for conservatives in 2012
GOP voters are fleeing politics as usual as they get behind the defacto third party candidacy of Michele Bachmann. To many conservatives Romney represents another polished, slippery politician who will say or do anything to get elected. While Bachmann is in a virtual dead heat with Romney at 23-22, the more conservative candidates garner a total of 58% of the votes.
Boehner falls flat in redefining “cuts” for Teaparty conservatives
House vote on raising the debt ceiling delayed.
McCain Mocks The Conservative Mentality
McCain style compromise for the sake of compromise has bankrupted the nation and insures an eventual default when there are no real spending cuts. All the “cuts” they are talking about are reductions in the the exorbitant future spending plans of the biggest spending president the world has ever known.
“We don’t trust this president with a blank check” -Rep. Joe Walsh
“I just don’t think he gets it and I don’t think he’s serious.” Rep. Joe Walsh responds to leftist propagandist Martin Bashir who desperately tries to defend Obama and the Democrats after they have spent the country into bankruptcy.
Karen Harrington Tears Into Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Former opponent for Wasserman-Schultz’s congressional seat piles on at a Teaparty rally.
George Will explains fundamental paradox of Tea Party
The Tea Party thinks Washington is easy to change, he says. If it were easy to change, there wouldn’t be a Tea Party.