The New Republican Virtue Of Cowardice

Michael Barone:

Many Republican House members, and the bloggers and tea partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010, seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation.

They believe, reasonably, that their victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government by the Obama Democrats. They want to see those policies reversed, and pronto. And if the dilatory Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the all-campaign-no-governance President Obama want a confrontation, so much the better.
Such impatience is unbecoming in those who call themselves “constitutional conservatives.” It is James Madison’s Constitution that prevents the winners of one election from directing the course of public policy as unilaterally as, to take one example, the British Labor party marched Britain into a socialist welfare state on the basis of one election victory in 1945.

This is utter hog-wash!We who want less government and to reduce its power over our lives DO NOT expect a return to Constitutional government over night.In fact most of us know it won't happen in our lifetimes.

We know we will have to have both the House and a filibuster proof Senate,with the Presidency just to begin to restore our nation to its Constitutional roots.We also know that the battle will not just be in Washington,but in the streets all across America.The Left -the Union-thugs and Occupy Wall Street- will rage with violence at the end of government programs that they have been conditioned to be dependent upon;being encouraged to do so by the crony capitalist who have enriched themselves at the expense of the state.It will be a very long and enduring fight.

The problem that I and others have with the Republicans in Congress,is not in their prudence in picking the right fight,but in their refusal to stand up and fight at all.Their strategy seems to be to avoid confrontation with Obama and the Democrats at all cost,caving in at every opportunity.They may not be able to roll back the welfare state,but they DO NOT have to be a party to its expansion.

Patience is a virtue,but cowardice is not.This exactly what John Boehner and the GOP leadership in the House has exhibited,cowardice.I will not be lectured to,by Michael Barone or any other Washington insider on being impatient,when we are led in Washington by a bunch of cowards.

'Obama Lite'

From Andrew McCarthy:

Well, we know the leadership is the same old GOP: As I noted last week, the Boehner Highway Boondoggle might as well be called “Obama Lite” — and it’s really not all that lite at $262 billion, which is about $70 billion more than dedicated fuel taxes will generate and $14 billion per annum more than House Republicans proposed just seven months ago. This is exactly the sort of recklessness that got the GOP booted from power in 2006 and 2008, and that they promised voters they had sworn off. 

As Erick Erickson points out, moreover, House Republican leadership is using the same sort of sleight-of-hand Obama Democrats employ to conceal their profligacy and bribe resisters: budget busting provisions are diverted into separate legislation, to be paid for out of general funds, to hide the fact that the Highway Trust Fund is being blown out; domestic energy production is purportedly ramped up (the Left will never go for it) to woo fiscally responsible conservatives into voting yea — even though there is no reason why energy production should be linked to transportation, and if there is a surplus to be had from it, responsible lawmakers would use it to pay down some of the mountainous debt they are saddling our children and grandchildren with, not fund more “stimulus.”

The House Republicans proved how spineless they were last year in the debt ceiling debacle and I fully expect them to cave again to this pork barrel spending.

'Boehner Folds Up Once Again .........'

Via Hell On Earth:

If there is a tax we whould be paying it is this one. The tax they cut last year and extended for another whole two months is the one that funds Social Security and Medicare. Since there is no Social Security "lockbox

All this "tax cut" does is short change the Social Security system and add to what our government has to borrow each year. We are going to wind up paying for it anyway.
Boehner needs to quit being such a pussy and stand up. Be a man. If he never intended to follow through with this thing he should have saved himself the humiliation and gave in from the beginning. Now he just looks really lame.
We need someone else in charge of the House. Someone with a PAIR of balls...

If you look up the word chump in the dictionary,there next to it will be a photo of John Boehner.

Obama Bows To Boehner's Wishes

Via Michelle Malkin,photo shop credit: Roger B.Add caption

From Sweetness & Light:

President Barack Obama has acceded to House Speaker John Boehner’s wishes

I have just one question.Where was this John Boehner,a month ago,when he and the rest of the Republicans caved and increased our debt limit?Well,lets make it 2 questions.Why does Speaker Boehner feel the need to stand up to Obama over a political debate ,that doesn't matter,that only polictal junkies will watch any way and not stand up to him over bringing our fiscal house in order,which our whole national survival depends?What kind of @$$-backwards logic is that?Sorry,that was 3 questions. :p

The Largest Non- Budget Cut In U.S. History

From My Way News;

The details of the agreement reached late Friday night just ahead of a deadline for a partial government shutdown reveal a lot of one-time savings and cuts that officially "score" as cuts to pay for spending elsewhere, but often have little to no actual impact on the deficit.
As a result of the legerdemain, Obama was able to reverse many of the cuts passed by House Republicans in February when the chamber approved a bill slashing this year's budget by more than $60 billion. In doing so, the White House protected favorites like the Head Start early learning program, while maintaining the maximum Pell grant of $5,550 and funding for Obama's "Race to the Top" initiative that provides grants to better-performing schools.
Instead, the cuts that actually will make it into law are far tamer, including cuts to earmarks, unspent census money, leftover federal construction funding, and $2.5 billion from the most recent renewal of highway programs that can't be spent because of restrictions set by other legislation. Another $3.5 billion comes from unused spending authority from a program providing health care to children of lower-income families.

All John Boehner and the Republicans accomplished was to rearrange the chairs on a sinking ship.From Obama and the Democrats you expect it,but if the Republicans wont stand up for fiscal discipline who will.

It Would Make A Bad Precedent

Like most people I was kind of perturbed to learn that Frank Buckles,last surviving veteran of WWI,would not be allowed to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol by Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Ried.Frank Buckles represents more than himself,he was our last living link to all those men who went "over there" the first time and they all should be honored vicariously through Mr. Buckles.

On second thought though,I agree with Speaker Boehner and Dingy Harry, because it would establish a very bad precedent to allow someone the honor of lying in honor at the Capitol just because they were the last of their particular generation or group.

In our present political climate the door would be opened to honor the last veteran to storm the beach at Normandy,the last member of the 101st airborne who was at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge,the last living survivor who survived Pearl Harbor,and so on and so on.This is not to mention what the liberals would do under such precedent.Every liberal icon from Jesse Jackson to Barney Frank would lie there.It would be the Paul Wellstone funeral every week then.

If you would establish such a precedent it would be miss used and abused by the left.