Obama: Desperate for Big Deal, RElying on Republican Betrayal

"Obama open to signing stopgap measure on debt, if deal near"


That is the pesent propaganda headline from Yahoo and AT&T (boycott Yahoo and AT&T), But go beyond the propaganda, and realize that this headline again proves this blog right. What I have been telling you is that it is OBAMA who wants the "big deal", because he knows that is the way he can DECEIVE to get what he wants. The above hedline shows that Obama is not even "open" to a shrot-term "deal", butr wanst to FORCE the deceptive, Obama-type "ten year deal".


Kent Conrad haS told you--at least if you are not a leftist Democrat--that the Gang of Six ten year "plan' is intended to deceive you (see previous article, about how a plan can increase revenue 1 trillion dollars and decrease taxes 1.5 trillion dollars, all at the same time and with the same plan, using the very same numbers). You should not have needed Kent Conrad. OBAMA is telling you that he is DESPERATE for the DECEPTIVE "big deal". As this blog has told you, as the result of my SACRIFICE for you in surfing MSNBC, that MSNBC leftist Democrat are fearful of ONE thing: that Republicans will force Obama into a "small deaL".


Obama is relying on Republican politicians to BETRAY conservatgives yet again--for many of us, for the VERY LAST TIME. No, Republicans are NOT going to get their "cut, cap and balance" bill". So what. Does that mean that conservatives should therefore accept a Republican TEN YEAER BETRAYAL. Not this conservative. House Republican (voing for or against such a plan). Senat Republican (ditto). Repubilcan candidate for President (whether you approve lthe ten year plan or not). If this betrayal occurs, I am going to BLAME YOU ALL. You can stop this, if you want. I will assume you do not want, if we ned up with a ten year paln. It will be enve worse if we tget a "stopgap" measure based on a ten year plan to be formulated later.


Nope. Obama will NOT veto a short-term extgensioin--deal or no deal--if his coicce is that or what HE says wilkl destroy the country Now we know that Obama does not listen to what he, himself, says. He does not listen on "living within our means'. He did not listen when candidate Obama said lthat an "individual mandate" owas a MISTAKE in health care reform. He did not listen when Senator Obama said that hitting tthe deb ceiling was proof of FAILED LEADERSHIIP, and a signal for fiscal discipline. Nevertheless, I don't think Obama can afford to veto a "clea" extension of the debt ceiling.


Yet, Obama is TELLING you that he does not want a "clean" extension of the debt ceiling without a "big deal". Do you realize just how big a betrayal it was for Tom Couburn and his merry band of Senate traitors to assume that we have to have a "big deal", even though Coburn does not even have one draftted? Yes, the Republican bill is the ONLY plan for raising the debt ceiling that has been DRAFTED. It is the only game in town.


"But Skip, you say that the Republican plan will not pass the Senate, and will never be accepted by Obama.". Yes, I do say that. Obama, as the headline says, is relying on Republican BETRAYAL, and Tom Coburn encouraged him in that belief. So waht Republicans can say that they are going to FIGHTT for their plan year by year, and bill by bill, and that if Obama would prefer to RUIN the country (shich his own words say he would be doing) by refusing to engage in this battle on the merits, then Obama is eposing himself for the partisan idologue he really is. As I have said, Obama evidently has no FEAR of htting the debt ceiling Republicans should have no FEAR either, but they should fight the battle on their terms. If they really are willing to hang in there for a Balanced Budget Amendment, fine. I don't think they are willing to do it, and I bel believe it is politically dangerous. But it is NOT politically dangerous, in my view, to say you are going to continue to FIGHT for "cut, cap and balance". That means Republicans promise to continue to FIGHT for a Balanced Budget Amendment, for a cap EVERY YER on spending, and for a CTU THIS YER in spending. Tht means Republicans pass a bill to get usthrough September 30 (the end of this fiscal year), and say that the only current "deal they are intereted in is a deal on SPENDING for next year, and a deal to incrase the debt ceiling just enough to cover that spending (through next September 30). In other words, Republicans say they intend to IMPLEMENT their "cut, cap and balance" approach, to the extent they can, and if they can't get it done they will conttinue the fight ON THE MERITS, year by year, until it does get done.


You may be able to come up with a variaton on this, but Repubicans need to get away from SHAM ten year plans, and SHAM numbers (trillions of "cuts" here, and trillions of "cutgs" there, but nary a "cut" anywhere" (a variation on" water, water everywhere, but nary a drop to drink").


Nope. The very CONCEPAT of a "ten yer plan" is a BETRAYAL. And I will never forgive lthe Repubilcan Party, which will then be dead to me, if it happens. And no, I am NOT interested in Mitch McConnell's political games designed to make Obama take responsibility for failing to cut. FIGHT on the spending bills for the year beginning on October 1, 2011. Make a deal there, and then make clear how much that REQURIES the debt ceiling to be raised. Propose your "cut, cap and balance" bill AGAIN. Then go ahead again and raise the debt ceiling just enough to cover the spending that has ALREADY passed.


Or just pass a "clen" raise of the debt ceiling by 2.4 trillion, and say that you are UNILATERALLY implementing "cut, cap and balance", to the extent Obama and the Democrats will let you. Say that it is up to the VOTGERS whether you are gong to be able to implement "cut, cap and balance", and that the dbet ceiling fight has accomplished its purpose of defining what this country NEEDS to do. Say it is now up to the WILL of the voters whether you can get it done. Say you will submit the Balanced Budget Amendment. You will FIGHT for the spending cuts for the coming year. You wil FIGHT for the cap in futre years. But you can only win if voters support you . Say that the "debt ceiling" fight has unfortunately gotten away from the focus on the things you thingk are important, helped by the mainstream media deception, and that lyou have decided to put the focus right where it belongs: ON "cut, cap and balance", whether you currently have the ovtes to pass it or not. Say thta you hope you can get it passed, but that the fight will continue if you can't. That is why you are dong a short-term bill to key the debt ceiling to SPENDINg, so that voters will know exctly how much is being added to the debt by each year's spending bills-startting with the current year.


You say "conservatives' will not like this "cave"? What cave? To say you are going to FIGHT to implement your own plan rather than accept a sham ten year plan? But maybe conservatives, or many of them, will dishonestly say that you could have FORCED a Balanced Budget Amendment. I say "dishonestly", because I don't think it can be done. The ONLY excuse I will accept here is if Republicans in the House GET IT DONE---refuse to raise the debt ceiling until it gets done, even if the country is imploding around them. . I don't believe it. Do you? But what I do believe is that Republicasn do NOT have to accept some sort of "deal". That is absurd. And if the Republican politicians try to tell me otherwise, their ass is grass--and I am the lawnmower.


You can see that I don't think this "debt ceilig" fight was exactly the right fight. I would have prfeferred a government "shut down" OVER SPENDING for this current year. Instead we got what everyone agrees was a SHAM DEAL. Now Republican politicians want--I guarantee you they want it--to sell us an even "bigger" SHAM DEAL. Fine. By so doing, they will decare themselves my ENEMY--including many who will cast "conveninece" votes against the plan.


P.S. No proofreading or spell checking (bad eyesight).