An Open Letter
Dear Tea Party Republicans,
I’ve been with you from the start. One of the very first Tea Party rallies — a scant 70 or so attendees — was on the Capitol building steps in Denver, here in the state I’ve called home for even longer than I’ve actually lived here. At that moment, I was attending CPAC in Washington, and when I heard the news I thought, “I’m in the wrong place. I should be there, not here.”
That’s what I want you to know, before I say what I’m about to say.
Fake spending cuts are better than fake spending cuts paired with genuine tax hikes.
Do you get that? We don’t — yet — have the numbers to produce real reform in Washington. To do that, we must capture the Senate and the White House next year. And we cannot do those things, we cannot do the things we sent you to Washington to do, if you don’t compromise right now with Harry Reid’s Senate.
I know that’s awful. I know it hurts. But if you screw this up today, there won’t be a tomorrow for you. For us. For this country.
Compromise now, and you’ll put Obama in a box from which it will be very difficult for him to escape. Refuse, and he will box us all up good and tight, then throw the box in the Potomac.
I’ll say it again: Fake spending cuts are better than fake spending cuts paired with genuine tax hikes.
Take the deal. Take it so we can fight another day. Refuse it, and go back to the wilderness.
Yours,
-VodkaPundit.
Amen brother
Ditto. This is as good as we are going to get this time around. Do it. Move on. Do some more next time around.
We need to relentlessly press how much Reid, Obama and the Dems have obstructed on this issue. No let-up.
This is the issue for 2012.
And we need to pray that it won’t be too late by then. Even with a TP sweep in the Senate and White House, it’s going to take an extraordinary amount of fast and hard work to right the ship.
Is there any mathematical way to get a super majority in the Senate? ‘Cause that’s the only way to get the changes through without the Dems filibustering us to death.
is there a mathematical way to a republican super majority? yes. last i heard the republicans are defending 10 seats and the dems 23. if the repubs hold all ten, then picking up four gives a majority, nine more a super majority of 60 and seven more a veto proof 2/3. can it actually be done, hold all ten and pick up 13 of 23? well, that’s why we have the election.
I don’t think that the Tea Party Folk – BTW, like you I support them in general – are very good politicians. I can’t help stopping them from cutting their own throats, but I don’t want them to cut mine In Aid Of The Cause.
They don’t seem to have read or heard two basic maxims:
1 – “Politics is the art of the possible”
2 – “One step backwards, two steps forward.”
Even Lenin agreed with these two…
No, we must send Robespierre to the guillotine for not being ideologically pure enough! Because the French Revolution ended so well, replacing a king with an emperor.
Reminds me of the Consigliere’s cruel advice to Acting Don Santino Corleone in The Godfather:
If we lose the old man, we lose our political contacts and half our strength. The other New York Families might wind up supporting Sollozzo just to avoid a long, destructive war. This is almost 1946, nobody wants bloodshed anymore. If your father dies, you make the deal, Sonny.
Do we have the numbers to prevent the tax hikes regardless of whether the spending cuts are fake? Why yes, I believe we do.
The same people saying OMG WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW EVEN IF IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!!! are the same ones who gave us TARP and Porkulus and the GM and Chrysler bailouts.
When D.C. wants to start a stampede, the thing to do is stand your ground. August 2 is a phony deadline, and failure to raise the debt ceiling will not lead to default.
With opponents like Boehner and McConnell, he won’t need to escape — they’ll let him out.
Principled politics make good politics. Nothing good coming out of the House will pass the Senate so one might as well do the right thing. Our rating gets downgraded without trillions in real cuts whether the debt ceiling is raised or not. Might as well do the right thing.
Resistance is not futile.
As I said in another thread, it’s all about January 2013. Pass some lifeboat legislation that gets us there, so we can shred it and write what we want.
In fact, in an updated historical re-enactment, Tea Partiers could dress up as gangsters or hackers and “raid” Congress, grab a big copy of the Obamacare bill, the Boehner plan, and the EPA budget, tear them to pieces, and dump them into the Potomac.
Just like the R’s dealt with entitlements WAY back in 05 when they held both houses and the Presedency?
There is no damn deal!
I don’t understand all of this talk of ‘taking the deal’ the deal will be whatever reid says it is, and writes into the boehner bill.
I am glad that everyone ‘on our side’ is so ready to jump onto the blame the Tea Party bandwagon.
Barry will win in 2012 because he will face the party of stupid and weak yet again.
>>Barry will win in 2012 because he will face the party of stupid and weak yet again.
Obama won’t be facing a “party” in 2012; he’ll be facing our candidate. I’m detecting smart and strong in a few of the aspirants.
another advantage of getting a deal done is getting on with the campaign. I can hardly wait for the BHO quotes!! what fun!!