"The bill passed by the House this evening is by no means perfect, but it begins changing the way Washington borrows and spends money.  There is plenty to dislike in this bill from all sides, but this compromise will put the brakes on America's exploding debt problem.

cough BULLSH!T cough

This legislation--while not containing the level of spending reductions I would like to see--prevents a national default and begins to move the country's ship in the right direction.  The bill contains dollar-for-dollar spending reductions and contains none of the job-killing tax increases the Administration promoted.

cough DOUBLE BULLSH!T cough Riiiiight... Like Republicrats that brokered deals with the Neocommunist DNC never resulted in tax increases in the past.  Read my lips!

Moreover, this measure continues the government's commitment to Social Security and Medicaid beneficiaries.

Coward.

Northern Michigan citizens are rightfully frustrated with the way Washington spends their money.

And that frustration ends with your one term of spinelessness.

With passage of this bill, Congress will enact policies that begin to reverse downward the spiraling debt curve.  This bill may not be the solution I was hoping to see, but it puts in motion the reforms needed to get this country's fiscal house in order and encourage job creation."

Hello!?!?!  Doctor Dan, you weren't sent to DC to vote for crap legislation.  Excuses are indeed like assholes.  Everyone has them.  We'd all been ahead of the game with Stupak still in Office instead of creating another Federal gummint pension.

I can now officially wipe my ass with The 4 R's page.

Dan's not a career politician. He doesn't really have a political bone in his body. But when Congress passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus bill in the middle of the night that no one had read, he shocked his wife, his friends and everyone who knew him: he declared that he could either shout at this TV set for the rest of his life, or he would run for Congress. So look out Congress.
The 4 R's

Dan thinks the three R's are great for schools. But Congress need's 4 R's:

1. Read It. Dan actually thinks it's crazy that this should even need to be said, but the biggest change you could make to Congress is to make them all read the bills they're voting on. Washington's biggest messes are coming from legislation no one has read.

2. Reduce It. We're $13 trillion in the hole, and on the brink of a financial meltdown that will ruin the nation because Congress won't stop spending. Dan will. It will be hard. It will take lots of sacrifice. But we can't leave this debt for our kids to pay back.

3. Repeal It. The health care bill is a mess. It needs to be repealed, and replaced with real reforms to put patients - not bureaucrats - in charge of health care.

4. Reform It. Out with the career politicians. Out with the special interests. And in with the voices of taxpaying American citizens who agree that enough is enough.

Enough is Fluff.  Between the GOP Nerd and Doctor in this state, who needs Brewer's Democratic Party?

Remember the problems which arose from that pesky process of reading the bill? I guess that they just plain "forgot" (page 33...again!)?

Even someone like Rep. West lost all of his fire and drive on Gretta last night.

And were all just one more step closer to Cloward-Piven being placed into practice.

Yeaaa-ha.

• CD-01 (Benishek-R) aye
  
• CD-02 (Huizenga-R) aye
  
• CD-03 (Amash-R) nay
  
• CD-04 (Camp-R) aye
  
• CD-05 (Kildee-D) aye
  
• CD-06 (Upton-R) aye
  
• CD-07 (Walberg-R) aye
  
• CD-08 (Rogers-R) aye
  
• CD-09 (Peters-D) nay
  
• CD-10 (Miller-R) aye
  
• CD-11 (McCotter-R) aye
  
• CD-12 (Levin-D) aye
  
• CD-13 (Clarke-D) nay
  
• CD-14 (Conyers-D) nay
  
• CD-15 (Dingell-D) aye

One of my sports-of-choice when I was on active duty was boxing.  (Even though I haven't been in the squared-circle in many years, I'm still a registered amateur heavyweight.)  A lesson that my very first trainer taught me is that when I have my opponent on the ropes, finish him.  Had House Republican Leadership stuck to their guns on Cut, Cap, and Balance, Obama's complete inability to function as a leader would have been exposed for all the world to see.  The Democrat-controlled Senate's complete failure to pass an actual federal budget for now 825-days-and-counting (plus their insistence on tabling everything that the House passed with regard to the "debt crisis") would have been available as proof-of-point that Harry Reid was the culprit-in-chief who clearly didn't have anything even resembling a plan-of-action for solving this problem except to continue with the business-as-usual status quo.

And, as Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has already observed, it's just not possible to negotiate with someone who doesn't have a plan:

Instead, the "compromisers" in Congress (particularly in the House) have just agreed to throw in the towel and put America upside-down on its debt-to-GDP ratio, which hasn't happened since World War Two.  However, unlike then, we aren't in a declared war, and just under half of our stated debt is now foreign-held (with the chief creditor being China):

As was mentioned in the WaPo article, the Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. House is a major strategic winner in this deal (even though it certainly doesn't feel like it right now).  A few months ago, President Obama was demanding a "clean debt limit increase" and honestly expecting that he'd get exactly what he wanted.  Instead, our national government was forced to have a real debate about America's long-term fiscal stability; and the tea party movement needs to read the very fact that the debate even happened as something that should embolden them for the next fight, even if the compromise falls short of what is required.

If you want to call me a "terrorist," or a "hobbit," or a "teahadist," or whatever little piece of creative invective you can come up with (because I insist on my government living within its means and adhering to its constitutionally-defined limits), then go for broke and insult away.  The last I checked, name calling is one of the favorite tactics of people who know that they can't win based on evidentiary facts and sound logic.  The fact of the matter is that the Democrat-Socialist Party knows full well that overloading America's financial system is critical to imploding the United States as a nation.  Indefinitely maintaining an unsustainable level of debt is a key operational strategy toward achieving that necessary overload.

If this morning's Weekly Standard article is correct in that those republicans opposing the "compromise deal" on the record (with their votes) will be barred from the "supercommittee for deficit reduction," then we can effectively kiss good-bye any chance of fiscal sanity being restored to D.C. between now and January 2013.  I don't even want to think about how many more times we can kick the can down the road before some sort of doomsday scenario is actually realized.

Though the left always seems to insist on applying it only to themselves, and then only when they win, it is true that elections have consequences.  What often isn't said is that it's not only the general elections that have these consequences.  Incumbents who have gone against the express wishes of a critical mass of their constituency one time too many might quickly learn that primaries also have consequences:

With that in mind, if any of you Conservative Michiganders want to help keep one of us in his congressional seat next year, then I'd like to suggest that you take advantage of this link to donate to Congressman Justin Amash's re-election campaign . . . because of all the republicans in Michigan's Congressional Delegation, he's the only one that has earned it.