January 30, 2012
THE BLAZE
ActBlue, a non-profit political committee who describes themselves as “the online clearinghouse for Democratic action,“ has waged war on a group of Republican legislators who they label ”the Tea Party Ten” via their own “CREDO” SuperPAC. The “Take Down the Tea Party Ten” campaign is aiming to collect donations to help take down 10 members of Congress, naming the frist six Monday; Reps. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Steve King (R-Iowa), Allen West (R-Fla), Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Frank Guinta (R-N.H.), and Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.) The CREDO fundraising page at ActBlue.com reads:
“These Tea Party extremists in Congress have spent the last year attacking women, science and the very notion of equality under the law.
Their racist, sexist, anti-science, hypocritical, corrupt and downright crazy actions and beliefs make them unfit to serve in Congress.
We need your help to take them down.”
CONTINUED:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/liberal-superpac-targets-tea-party-reps-and-their-downright-crazy-actions-and-beliefs/
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Perpetual Revolution by Robert Ringer
by Robert Ringer
Monday, November 7, 2011
As the election season revs up, bull-slinging, the favorite sport of the criminal class east of the Potomac, is in full bloom. Some of the best zingers we’ve been treated to lately include:
•Che Obama, at the G-20 in France, saying, with a straight face: “I have to tell you, the least of my concerns at the moment is the politics of a year from now.” Sure, Barry.
•Nancy Pelosi, at a recent press briefing, saying, with a straight face: “If President Obama and the House congressional Democrats had not acted, we would be at 15 percent unemployment.” Sure, Nancy.
•Joe Biden saying, with a straight face, that if Obama’s $447 billion “jobs bill” (i.e., stimulus package) is not passed, there won’t be enough police to prevent rapes and robberies. Sure, Joe.
Do they really believe any of this nonsense? No, of course not. But they do know, through experience, that slinging a decorative array of fecal matter against the wall can win over a significant portion of the electorate — particularly those who don’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
But let’s put the sleepwalkers aside for a moment. They’re pretty much already owned by the left anyway. I’m more concerned about the supposedly conservative media types who are hopelessly trapped in the Beltway Paradigm.
By Beltway Paradigm, I’m talking about those who believe the far-left zealots will ultimately fail because, in the end, the free market will overrule their desires. They are fond of saying that socialism is simply not in the American DNA, thus in the next election voters will root out those on the far left.
Their problem is that they do not understand how the left-wing revolutionary mind works. Lefties know that communism makes the masses worse off, but they also know they can override that reality through the use of force.
Media mainstreamers, even those who are usually on target, simply cannot grasp a scenario that is so far outside the Beltway Paradigm. In their minds, they naively assume there will always be a next election.
And, even more naively, they assume the government would never use violence against U.S. citizens. Underlying this naiveté is that they cannot bring themselves to believe there is a serious revolution afoot in this country — and throughout the world.
In that vein, a year ago I participated in a panel discussion with three staunch Republicans, one of whom was a high-profile Fox News contributor. At one point in our discussion — and without giving it a second thought — I happened to mention Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, and Barack Obama in the same sentence, which caused the Fox News contributor to frantically blurt out, “I didn’t say that!” to make certain the audience knew the comment had not come from him.
His knee-jerk attempt to distance himself from my comment took me aback, because I sometimes forget that mainstream guys never stray from the comfortable thoughts contained within their Beltway Paradigm. And, rest assured, revolution is not within that paradigm.
Whether it’s the Occupy Wall Street protesters, rioters in Greece, public workers defacing the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, or thugs tearing down the city of Oakland, brick by brick, they are all focused on the same objective: equal distribution of wealth and a classless society. They may not use the word communism, but communism is precisely what they yearn for.
Do I believe every person in these rowdy mobs is consciously involved in a communist revolution? No, of course not. A majority of them, in fact, are probably nothing more than “useful idiots” who are hopelessly addicted to the idea of less and less work coupled with more and more entitlements. I doubt they realize that the system they long to see implemented is communism — or ultimately leads to communism.
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote: “In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!”
The key words here are “support every revolutionary movement against existing social conditions.” When you use these words as a filter, it’s easier to understand the connection between such seemingly disparate events as those in Egypt, Libya, Greece, Wisconsin, and Lower Manhattan. After all, the only thing that matters is that workers must always revolt against “existing social conditions.”
The result is perpetual revolution, because there are always “existing social conditions.” That’s why most rioters who have been interviewed seem not to be able to coherently explain exactly what they’re rioting about. For the left, mob violence is an end in itself. To parody Ursula the witch in the Disney classic The Little Mermaid, it’s what they live for.
One of Lenin’s more infamous statements was when he said, “We say that our morality is wholly subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat.” Translation: Anything goes, because the communists’ noble end justifies any means, including lying, stealing, cheating, or even the murder of innocent people. From whence comes the kind of absurd bull slinging we hear from committed lefties like Obama, Pelosi, and Biden.
Marx and Engels viewed the world as divided into two classes — the exploiters, who own the means of production, and the exploited, who have no choice but to sell or trade their physical labor in order to survive. And based on the worldwide uprisings we’ve seen over the past year, nothing much has changed in the 163 years since Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. Isn’t it amazing that the revolution they called for is still going strong so long after the collapse of the great social experiments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe?
Above all, Marx and Engels fervently believed that the root of all evil is private property. They cared little about freedom, because, clearly, freedom is impossible without private property. Property is an extension of a man’s life, thus if everything he creates can be taken from him, he has no incentive to create. If everything he buys with his earnings can be taken from him, he has no incentive to earn.
I don’t believe it was so much that Marx and Engels didn’t understand this self-evident reality. I believe it was more a case of their choosing to ignore it. In their narrow, somewhat childish, view of the world, workers deserved to receive all of the proceeds from the sale of whatever was produced by their labor. Management, they believed, was incidental to the production of a product, thus management and owners deserved nothing.
All this by way of reminding you that there is a revolution afoot, and it’s a revolution that Obama and his class-warfare pals can win. From Greece and Portugal to California and Wisconsin, from Italy and Spain to Illinois and New York, the socialist model is collapsing under its own weight. Economic and demographic forces are shining a spotlight on the reality that the combination of ever-bigger government financed by an ever-smaller tax base is doomed to failure.
Nevertheless, Obama and his class-warfare pals can win. The more obvious their failure becomes, the more angry and panicked the wealth redistributors, especially in Washington, D.C., will be. Their bull slinging is easy enough to laugh off, but if it doesn’t work — if it becomes clear that the Democrats are going down to defeat in 2012 — look for them to go to their weapon of last resort and use brute force to “temporarily” suspend elections.
Of course, the least of my concerns at the moment is suspension of the 2012 elections. Sure, Robert.
You have permission to reprint this article so long as you place the following wording at the end of the article:
Copyright © 2011 Robert Ringer
ROBERT RINGER is a New York Times #1 bestselling author and host of the highly acclaimed Liberty Education Interview Series, which features interviews with top political, economic, and social leaders. He has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, The Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, The Lars Larson Show, ABC Nightline, and The Charlie Rose Show, and has been the subject of feature articles in such major publications as Time, People, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Barron's, and The New York Times.
http://robertringer.com/2011/11/perpetual-revolution/
Monday, November 7, 2011
As the election season revs up, bull-slinging, the favorite sport of the criminal class east of the Potomac, is in full bloom. Some of the best zingers we’ve been treated to lately include:
•Che Obama, at the G-20 in France, saying, with a straight face: “I have to tell you, the least of my concerns at the moment is the politics of a year from now.” Sure, Barry.
•Nancy Pelosi, at a recent press briefing, saying, with a straight face: “If President Obama and the House congressional Democrats had not acted, we would be at 15 percent unemployment.” Sure, Nancy.
•Joe Biden saying, with a straight face, that if Obama’s $447 billion “jobs bill” (i.e., stimulus package) is not passed, there won’t be enough police to prevent rapes and robberies. Sure, Joe.
Do they really believe any of this nonsense? No, of course not. But they do know, through experience, that slinging a decorative array of fecal matter against the wall can win over a significant portion of the electorate — particularly those who don’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
But let’s put the sleepwalkers aside for a moment. They’re pretty much already owned by the left anyway. I’m more concerned about the supposedly conservative media types who are hopelessly trapped in the Beltway Paradigm.
By Beltway Paradigm, I’m talking about those who believe the far-left zealots will ultimately fail because, in the end, the free market will overrule their desires. They are fond of saying that socialism is simply not in the American DNA, thus in the next election voters will root out those on the far left.
Their problem is that they do not understand how the left-wing revolutionary mind works. Lefties know that communism makes the masses worse off, but they also know they can override that reality through the use of force.
Media mainstreamers, even those who are usually on target, simply cannot grasp a scenario that is so far outside the Beltway Paradigm. In their minds, they naively assume there will always be a next election.
And, even more naively, they assume the government would never use violence against U.S. citizens. Underlying this naiveté is that they cannot bring themselves to believe there is a serious revolution afoot in this country — and throughout the world.
In that vein, a year ago I participated in a panel discussion with three staunch Republicans, one of whom was a high-profile Fox News contributor. At one point in our discussion — and without giving it a second thought — I happened to mention Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, and Barack Obama in the same sentence, which caused the Fox News contributor to frantically blurt out, “I didn’t say that!” to make certain the audience knew the comment had not come from him.
His knee-jerk attempt to distance himself from my comment took me aback, because I sometimes forget that mainstream guys never stray from the comfortable thoughts contained within their Beltway Paradigm. And, rest assured, revolution is not within that paradigm.
Whether it’s the Occupy Wall Street protesters, rioters in Greece, public workers defacing the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, or thugs tearing down the city of Oakland, brick by brick, they are all focused on the same objective: equal distribution of wealth and a classless society. They may not use the word communism, but communism is precisely what they yearn for.
Do I believe every person in these rowdy mobs is consciously involved in a communist revolution? No, of course not. A majority of them, in fact, are probably nothing more than “useful idiots” who are hopelessly addicted to the idea of less and less work coupled with more and more entitlements. I doubt they realize that the system they long to see implemented is communism — or ultimately leads to communism.
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote: “In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!”
The key words here are “support every revolutionary movement against existing social conditions.” When you use these words as a filter, it’s easier to understand the connection between such seemingly disparate events as those in Egypt, Libya, Greece, Wisconsin, and Lower Manhattan. After all, the only thing that matters is that workers must always revolt against “existing social conditions.”
The result is perpetual revolution, because there are always “existing social conditions.” That’s why most rioters who have been interviewed seem not to be able to coherently explain exactly what they’re rioting about. For the left, mob violence is an end in itself. To parody Ursula the witch in the Disney classic The Little Mermaid, it’s what they live for.
One of Lenin’s more infamous statements was when he said, “We say that our morality is wholly subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat.” Translation: Anything goes, because the communists’ noble end justifies any means, including lying, stealing, cheating, or even the murder of innocent people. From whence comes the kind of absurd bull slinging we hear from committed lefties like Obama, Pelosi, and Biden.
Marx and Engels viewed the world as divided into two classes — the exploiters, who own the means of production, and the exploited, who have no choice but to sell or trade their physical labor in order to survive. And based on the worldwide uprisings we’ve seen over the past year, nothing much has changed in the 163 years since Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. Isn’t it amazing that the revolution they called for is still going strong so long after the collapse of the great social experiments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe?
Above all, Marx and Engels fervently believed that the root of all evil is private property. They cared little about freedom, because, clearly, freedom is impossible without private property. Property is an extension of a man’s life, thus if everything he creates can be taken from him, he has no incentive to create. If everything he buys with his earnings can be taken from him, he has no incentive to earn.
I don’t believe it was so much that Marx and Engels didn’t understand this self-evident reality. I believe it was more a case of their choosing to ignore it. In their narrow, somewhat childish, view of the world, workers deserved to receive all of the proceeds from the sale of whatever was produced by their labor. Management, they believed, was incidental to the production of a product, thus management and owners deserved nothing.
All this by way of reminding you that there is a revolution afoot, and it’s a revolution that Obama and his class-warfare pals can win. From Greece and Portugal to California and Wisconsin, from Italy and Spain to Illinois and New York, the socialist model is collapsing under its own weight. Economic and demographic forces are shining a spotlight on the reality that the combination of ever-bigger government financed by an ever-smaller tax base is doomed to failure.
Nevertheless, Obama and his class-warfare pals can win. The more obvious their failure becomes, the more angry and panicked the wealth redistributors, especially in Washington, D.C., will be. Their bull slinging is easy enough to laugh off, but if it doesn’t work — if it becomes clear that the Democrats are going down to defeat in 2012 — look for them to go to their weapon of last resort and use brute force to “temporarily” suspend elections.
Of course, the least of my concerns at the moment is suspension of the 2012 elections. Sure, Robert.
You have permission to reprint this article so long as you place the following wording at the end of the article:
Copyright © 2011 Robert Ringer
ROBERT RINGER is a New York Times #1 bestselling author and host of the highly acclaimed Liberty Education Interview Series, which features interviews with top political, economic, and social leaders. He has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, The Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, The Lars Larson Show, ABC Nightline, and The Charlie Rose Show, and has been the subject of feature articles in such major publications as Time, People, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Barron's, and The New York Times.
http://robertringer.com/2011/11/perpetual-revolution/
Monday, January 17, 2011
Why Obama will repeal ObamaCare within 60 days
MAKING BOEHNER'S BONES
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 13 January 2011
As the Loughner Lefties at the New York Times realized they jumped the shark in blaming the Arizona Massacre on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Right, they smoothly shifted their strategy yesterday (1/12).
In a transparent ploy to monkey wrench the 112th Congress' program to dismantle ObamaCare and other Dem disasters, the NYT is now claiming that Boehner & Co must "play a less partisan role," and not "allow the House to slide back into confrontational politics." Translation: Republicans need to surrender to the Democrats.
And Boehner's response? As Eliza Doolittle said to Professor Henry Higgins, "Not bloody likely!" Zero and the Dems (and the Enemedia) are going to get the shock of their lives when they learn what Boehner has planned for them.
Get ready for this, folks, for it's going to knock the polka dots off your undies. This is going to make Boehner's bones.
Remember how Reagan made his? On August 3, 1981, 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike, shutting down 7,000 flights at the peak of the summer travel season. They demanded $10,000 a year salary increases and an extortionate array of increased benefits.
Reagan branded the strike illegal and gave them 48 hours to return to work or else he would fire them all. They controllers laughed at him for what they thought was a foolish bluff. Except for 2,000 who did return to work, joining 3,000 FAA supervisors and 900 military controllers. 80% of flights went back to normal.
48 hours later on August 5, Reagan fired all 11,000 striking controllers - and imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring them. Then he had the Federal Labor Relations Authority disband PATCO - the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Not only were the strikers permanently fired, their union ceased to exist.
That's how to make your bones in Washington. No one ever messed with Reagan again.
So how is John Boehner going to do it? Hold on to those undies now... he plans to get Zero to sign, not veto, a bill to repeal ObamaCare.
Yes, repeal, repeal the whole damn thing, Zero's pride and joy. Here's the strategy.
First, the fallback remains: defund it, refuse to appropriate any money to implement any of it. But to go for the jugular means repeal. Of course, any stand-alone repeal bill such as HR 2 passed by the House will be blocked in the Senate, or if passed faces a certain presidential veto that cannot possibly be overridden.
HR 2, the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," takes 36 words to eliminate 2,000 pages of ObamaCare legislation: "Effective as of the enactment of Public Law 111-148, such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted."
It will be voted on and passed by the House next week. It is only a warning shot. For its destiny is not to be a stand-alone bill, but an amendment to two other bills.
These two bills form the sides of a vise in which Dem cojones are inextricably trapped. They are: the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government past March 4 when the current CR ends; and the bill to raise the debt ceiling (call it the DR, the debt raise).
These bills are "must pass" bills - for if they don't pass, the government shuts down, no checks go out to pay for anybody or anything, and government debt gets defaulted on.
Thus the repeal strategy: HR 2 will be appended to the next CR and the DR by the House. That's step one. Step two is for McConnell and DeMint to block any passage of either in the Senate unless HR 2 is appended.
And to keep those Dem cojones in an ever-tightening vise, both the CR and DR will be very short term - say 60 days for the former and $100 billion instead of a trillion for the latter, maybe less. This forces the Dems to fight the battle for more spending over and over again.
Step three is where it gets really interesting. The "ghost of 1995" haunting the Pubs is Gingrich forcing just such a government shutdown back then, which Clinton won and the Gingrich Pubs disastrously lost.
To avoid this happening again, companion legislation will be introduced in the House specifying those "essential services" of the federal government that would continue to be paid for at current levels should a CR or DR not be passed.
Call it the Essential Services or ES Bill. It will include the standard popular goodies people demand and the Dems scaremonger with: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other payments to individuals (but not to government employees - they get nada).
There is an argument over how long or short the ES list of government functions should be. Yet there is little need for it to be overly-long if it is amendable at any time by a simple concurrent resolution.
That way, when the Dems find some cute starving children who will die because of the heartlessly inhuman Republicans' refusal to spend taxpayers' money to save them, the Pubs have the option to add the relevant program to the ES list if the public clamor (not the Dem's) is loud enough.
And of course, the ES list would have no "non-essential" services or programs like the EPA, or funding for any agency to write and implement any new regulations whatever.
With the ES Bill, the vise really starts to squeeze. How will Harry Reid explain he opposes the ES Bill and would rather have a full government shutdown instead; that he would rather keep ObamaCare on life support rather than have seniors get their Social Security checks or Medicare payments? How will Zero?
In other words, the ES Bill puts the onus, fault, blame, and responsibility for a government shutdown on the Dems - not on Boehner & Co. Both Boehner and McConnell believe that there are enough Senate Dems wanting to keep their seats in 2012 to vote for the ES Bill, and the HR 2-appended CR & DR bills.
Which means they will be on Zero's desk for his signature or veto. If he doesn't sign them, all government services stop, pretty much immediately, and the government starts defaulting on Treasury interest payments. If he only signs the ES Bill, the same thing happens save for continued funding only for "essential services."
Boehner is betting Zero will buckle and sign the HR 2-appended CR & DR bills. With that, ObamaCare ceases to exist as if it never happened.
If he vetoes them and just signs the ES bill, Boehner still wins. Government has been truncated to "essential services" at a stroke, and now the whole debate is what government programs are "essential" or not, with the Dems on the defensive in the debate. This is orders of magnitude better than defunding one program at a time.
And if he vetoes all three, shutting the government down just to save ObamaCare, he gets the full and total blame for the shutdown -- a shutdown that would leave vast swathes of government programs and agencies in ruins.
Once that happens, millions of Americans would discover two amazing things: that they can get along just fine without all these Federalie programs and agencies - and with the government out of the way, they have innumerable opportunities to get a job or start a business they didn't have with the government in the way.
Oh, yes - a shutdown of course disintegrates the implementation of any part of ObamaCare, so it's useless to resist, Mr. President, it's best to cut your losses and sign, not veto.
If Boehner pulls this off, it doesn't just make his bones - he will be the King of Washington DC. Zero will be castrated. President Eunuch. His only possible hope for 2012 will be to work with the House and Senate Republicans in creating an environment for solid economic recovery that he can take credit for.
So... the trillion dollar question is: does Boehner have the stones to make his bones?
Until this repeal strategy emerged, all the talk was about trading raising the debt ceiling for a bunch of budget cuts. That's peanuts compared to zeroing out ObamaCare, which will save hundreds of billions by that alone.
Further, individual budget cuts, Boehner is advised, will be far more of a political liability. Remember how Tim Coburn got wasted (even by Fox News!) for opposing the $4 billion entitlement given to the 9/11 "first responders" by the Lame Schmucks? That's just a hint, Boehner is being warned, of what's to come with attempts to cut the budget a bite at a time.
Far better, and far more likely of success, to go for the gold, run for the roses, make your bones doing what you were elected to do: Repeal, not just defund, ObamaCare. Repeal it in less than sixty days from now - by mid-March.
The final decision hasn't been made, but Boehner, Cantor and the House leadership are edging up to it. They need all the encouragement and backup they can get. Let's give it to them. Let's make our bones too.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4372/2/
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 13 January 2011
As the Loughner Lefties at the New York Times realized they jumped the shark in blaming the Arizona Massacre on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Right, they smoothly shifted their strategy yesterday (1/12).
In a transparent ploy to monkey wrench the 112th Congress' program to dismantle ObamaCare and other Dem disasters, the NYT is now claiming that Boehner & Co must "play a less partisan role," and not "allow the House to slide back into confrontational politics." Translation: Republicans need to surrender to the Democrats.
And Boehner's response? As Eliza Doolittle said to Professor Henry Higgins, "Not bloody likely!" Zero and the Dems (and the Enemedia) are going to get the shock of their lives when they learn what Boehner has planned for them.
Get ready for this, folks, for it's going to knock the polka dots off your undies. This is going to make Boehner's bones.
Remember how Reagan made his? On August 3, 1981, 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike, shutting down 7,000 flights at the peak of the summer travel season. They demanded $10,000 a year salary increases and an extortionate array of increased benefits.
Reagan branded the strike illegal and gave them 48 hours to return to work or else he would fire them all. They controllers laughed at him for what they thought was a foolish bluff. Except for 2,000 who did return to work, joining 3,000 FAA supervisors and 900 military controllers. 80% of flights went back to normal.
48 hours later on August 5, Reagan fired all 11,000 striking controllers - and imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring them. Then he had the Federal Labor Relations Authority disband PATCO - the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Not only were the strikers permanently fired, their union ceased to exist.
That's how to make your bones in Washington. No one ever messed with Reagan again.
So how is John Boehner going to do it? Hold on to those undies now... he plans to get Zero to sign, not veto, a bill to repeal ObamaCare.
Yes, repeal, repeal the whole damn thing, Zero's pride and joy. Here's the strategy.
First, the fallback remains: defund it, refuse to appropriate any money to implement any of it. But to go for the jugular means repeal. Of course, any stand-alone repeal bill such as HR 2 passed by the House will be blocked in the Senate, or if passed faces a certain presidential veto that cannot possibly be overridden.
HR 2, the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act," takes 36 words to eliminate 2,000 pages of ObamaCare legislation: "Effective as of the enactment of Public Law 111-148, such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted."
It will be voted on and passed by the House next week. It is only a warning shot. For its destiny is not to be a stand-alone bill, but an amendment to two other bills.
These two bills form the sides of a vise in which Dem cojones are inextricably trapped. They are: the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government past March 4 when the current CR ends; and the bill to raise the debt ceiling (call it the DR, the debt raise).
These bills are "must pass" bills - for if they don't pass, the government shuts down, no checks go out to pay for anybody or anything, and government debt gets defaulted on.
Thus the repeal strategy: HR 2 will be appended to the next CR and the DR by the House. That's step one. Step two is for McConnell and DeMint to block any passage of either in the Senate unless HR 2 is appended.
And to keep those Dem cojones in an ever-tightening vise, both the CR and DR will be very short term - say 60 days for the former and $100 billion instead of a trillion for the latter, maybe less. This forces the Dems to fight the battle for more spending over and over again.
Step three is where it gets really interesting. The "ghost of 1995" haunting the Pubs is Gingrich forcing just such a government shutdown back then, which Clinton won and the Gingrich Pubs disastrously lost.
To avoid this happening again, companion legislation will be introduced in the House specifying those "essential services" of the federal government that would continue to be paid for at current levels should a CR or DR not be passed.
Call it the Essential Services or ES Bill. It will include the standard popular goodies people demand and the Dems scaremonger with: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other payments to individuals (but not to government employees - they get nada).
There is an argument over how long or short the ES list of government functions should be. Yet there is little need for it to be overly-long if it is amendable at any time by a simple concurrent resolution.
That way, when the Dems find some cute starving children who will die because of the heartlessly inhuman Republicans' refusal to spend taxpayers' money to save them, the Pubs have the option to add the relevant program to the ES list if the public clamor (not the Dem's) is loud enough.
And of course, the ES list would have no "non-essential" services or programs like the EPA, or funding for any agency to write and implement any new regulations whatever.
With the ES Bill, the vise really starts to squeeze. How will Harry Reid explain he opposes the ES Bill and would rather have a full government shutdown instead; that he would rather keep ObamaCare on life support rather than have seniors get their Social Security checks or Medicare payments? How will Zero?
In other words, the ES Bill puts the onus, fault, blame, and responsibility for a government shutdown on the Dems - not on Boehner & Co. Both Boehner and McConnell believe that there are enough Senate Dems wanting to keep their seats in 2012 to vote for the ES Bill, and the HR 2-appended CR & DR bills.
Which means they will be on Zero's desk for his signature or veto. If he doesn't sign them, all government services stop, pretty much immediately, and the government starts defaulting on Treasury interest payments. If he only signs the ES Bill, the same thing happens save for continued funding only for "essential services."
Boehner is betting Zero will buckle and sign the HR 2-appended CR & DR bills. With that, ObamaCare ceases to exist as if it never happened.
If he vetoes them and just signs the ES bill, Boehner still wins. Government has been truncated to "essential services" at a stroke, and now the whole debate is what government programs are "essential" or not, with the Dems on the defensive in the debate. This is orders of magnitude better than defunding one program at a time.
And if he vetoes all three, shutting the government down just to save ObamaCare, he gets the full and total blame for the shutdown -- a shutdown that would leave vast swathes of government programs and agencies in ruins.
Once that happens, millions of Americans would discover two amazing things: that they can get along just fine without all these Federalie programs and agencies - and with the government out of the way, they have innumerable opportunities to get a job or start a business they didn't have with the government in the way.
Oh, yes - a shutdown of course disintegrates the implementation of any part of ObamaCare, so it's useless to resist, Mr. President, it's best to cut your losses and sign, not veto.
If Boehner pulls this off, it doesn't just make his bones - he will be the King of Washington DC. Zero will be castrated. President Eunuch. His only possible hope for 2012 will be to work with the House and Senate Republicans in creating an environment for solid economic recovery that he can take credit for.
So... the trillion dollar question is: does Boehner have the stones to make his bones?
Until this repeal strategy emerged, all the talk was about trading raising the debt ceiling for a bunch of budget cuts. That's peanuts compared to zeroing out ObamaCare, which will save hundreds of billions by that alone.
Further, individual budget cuts, Boehner is advised, will be far more of a political liability. Remember how Tim Coburn got wasted (even by Fox News!) for opposing the $4 billion entitlement given to the 9/11 "first responders" by the Lame Schmucks? That's just a hint, Boehner is being warned, of what's to come with attempts to cut the budget a bite at a time.
Far better, and far more likely of success, to go for the gold, run for the roses, make your bones doing what you were elected to do: Repeal, not just defund, ObamaCare. Repeal it in less than sixty days from now - by mid-March.
The final decision hasn't been made, but Boehner, Cantor and the House leadership are edging up to it. They need all the encouragement and backup they can get. Let's give it to them. Let's make our bones too.
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