Once the 11th-hour vote to avoid the potential default was passed by the Senate and the House and signed into law by President Obama, key players in the game of fiscal chicken just ended began issuing their justifications and frustrations. That game, variously called “political brinkmanship”, a “temporary fix”, “a temporary ceasefire” and “a political achievement for Obama”, does everything the president wanted while
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Charges that the GOP is Caving on the Shutdown Prove False as President Drops Further in Polls
- Thursday, 10 October 2013 11:35
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Within days of the government shutdown pundits began to estimate just how long the hard-core Tea Party members in the House would maintain their stand against funding Obamacare. One even listed the names of eighteen members who were already “caving in” while noting another four
The New York Times Reluctantly Credits Conservative Hard-Liners in Obamacare Battle
- Wednesday, 02 October 2013 12:49
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In Tuesday’s article in the New York Times, authors Jonathan Weisman and Ashley Parker were hard-pressed to say nice things about the hard core conservatives who have forced House Speaker John Boehner’s hand in confronting the president over his signature legislation, Obamacare. But they did manage to
House Speaker Boehner Schedules Obamacare Vote for Friday
- Thursday, 19 September 2013 11:48
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced on Wednesday that he would schedule a vote for Friday on his newly revised bill to continue government spending at current levels but without funding for Obamacare, in response to pressure from a small but critically important group of Tea Party conservatives. Fresh from the hustings, that group, estimated to be about 40 in number, has been reminded afresh of their constituents’ demands to
Unintended Consequences from Potential Syrian Attack Continue to Grow
- Saturday, 07 September 2013 07:09
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Following the informal meeting between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Putin made clear that he would continue to provide all manner of military aid to Syria’s President Assad. Such aid would include
Obama Ready to Launch Unilateral Military Assault on Syria
- Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:41
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US Military preparations are underway for a limited, two-day, surgical strike aimed at “punishing” Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons – nerve gas – in last Wednesday’s attack on civilians in 9 cities in the Ghouta region east of Damascus, killing an estimated 1,300 people.
According to senior officials in the Obama administration, the attack “would probably last no more than
“Defund Obamacare” Tours Begin, Putting Pressure on Reluctant Senators
- Friday, 23 August 2013 05:25
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On Monday the Heritage Foundation was joined by two Tea Party grassroots organizations, Tea Party Patriots and For America, on “Defund Obamacare” tours to bring political pressure on Senators who have not yet signed Senator Ted Cruz’s Defund Obamacare Act (Senate Bill 1292). The Heritage tour started in Fayetteville, Arkansas and will visit nine cities by the end of August. The tour backed by Tea Party Patriots and For America will start in Ohio and
Key Obamacare Mandate Delayed; Critics escalate attacks
- Wednesday, 03 July 2013 11:26
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In an online statement posted on Tuesday, Mark Mazur, an assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, said the agency would delay for one year any imposition of penalties onto companies failing to provide insurance coverage for its employees under Obamacare:
We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively. We have listened to your feedback. And we are taking action.
This was followed up with a posting on the White House website by Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett:
Thanks to Glorious Gridlock, the Senate Immigration Bill is dead in the House
- Friday, 28 June 2013 13:00
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This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, June 28th, 2013:
The founders would be proud. The Constitution has created gridlock over the Senate’s immigration bill, which will prevent this travesty from ever seeing the light of day over at the House. Many claim the Constitution is dead. Not according to House Speaker John Boehner:
Many Positives Coming from the Unfolding NSA Leaker Story
- Thursday, 13 June 2013 05:47
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This article was first posted at the McAlvany Intelligence Adviser:
Hardly a sentient soul on planet Earth doesn’t know who Edward Snowden is, but few of them know of the ramifications and positives that are already coming as a result of his leak about NSA spying on Americans’ emails, voicemails, and IMs.
Because of his top-secret clearance across a broad spectrum of surveillance programs developed by the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, Snowden had a rare opportunity to view the threats to privacy these agencies and their enablers have created. So he decided to do something about it:
Exposure of IRS Malfeasances Continue to Erode American’s Confidence in Big Government
- Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:55
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After accepting the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller (who was going to leave the agency in June anyway), and then reviewing the Treasury’s report on IRS malfeasance in the “conservative charity targeting” scandal, President Obama expressed the sentiments of many on Wednesday:
Congress has just set a new standard for hypocrisy: exempting itself from Obamacare
- Friday, 26 April 2013 06:44
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Most folks know the classic definition of hypocrisy:
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.
More and more of those folks are applying it to Congress. This latest about months-long secret negotiations to exempt members of congress and their staffs from Obamacare has gone viral in the last 48 hours and
The GOP Surrenders Without a Fight
- Saturday, 19 January 2013 15:00
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I wrote yesterday about a memo that the Conservative Action Project sent to House Republicans meeting in Williamsburg to plot strategy against Obama’s continued demands for higher taxes. They ignored the memo, and surrendered.
House Republicans revised their strategy for the coming months’ fiscal debate with Democrats, saying they’ll agree to a three-month debt-limit increase without demanding spending cuts as part of the deal.
This fits perfectly with Mish Shedlock’s prediction that they would surrender. He was just surprised at how quickly they folded. So am I. Wrote Mish:
Let’s review my precise call.
Politics of the Debate
- Obama will chastise Congress with talk of financial Armageddon if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling.
- Congress will pretend to hold the president hostage
- The secretary of the Treasury will get into the act with its own version of the default debate
- Perhaps a few payments on non-critical budget items will be temporarily skipped
- Wall Street will feign panic
- Constituents will pressure Congress to approve a new debt ceiling
- Congress will raise the ceiling with another useless warning about next time
The GOP followed Mish’s call to the letter, completing steps 1 through 3.
But then, Republicans bypassed steps 4-6 and skipped straight to step 7 without a fight.
From the Bloomberg article, Boehner used
Some more reasons why conservatives don’t trust Republicans
- Wednesday, 16 January 2013 15:00
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There are lots of reasons. But no one sums them up as well as John Hawkins. Hawkins says true conservatives don’t “trust the establishment Republicans as far as you can throw them.” And for good reason.
First,
How likely is a government shutdown over the debt ceiling?
- Friday, 11 January 2013 11:00
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Not very, if David Harsanyi is correct. Harsanyi used to write for the Denver Post and I took a writing class from him several years ago. He referred to the newsroom at the Post – Denver’s liberal paper – as “the collective.” That brought a lot of laughs.
He says that Washington faces three more “cliffs” – the “debt ceiling” cliff, the “sequestration” cliff, and the “balanced budget” cliff. He thinks that the idea of shutting down the government over the debt ceiling cliff is
Plans to Oust House Speaker Boehner are Taking Shape
- Saturday, 29 December 2012 19:00
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Following increasing dissatisfaction with House Speaker John Boehner, staffs of unnamed House members have developed a detailed plan to oust John Boehner (R-Ohio) as the first order of business on Thursday, January 3rd, 2013. Matthew Boyle, writing for Breitbart.com, obtained a copy of the plan with its strategy and tactics laid out in detail. Provided by staffers who demanded anonymity in case the plan backfires, it will be
A Tea Party House member doesn’t think there will be a fiscal cliff deal
- Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:00
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Tim Huelskamp is a House member (R-Ky.) and a member of the Tea Party Caucus who was canned by Speaker John Boehner because he didn’t “toe” the Republican line, a move that Huelskamp called “petty” and “vindictive.” I called it “instructive” about Boehner.
He has strong opinions about government spending, and wasn’t afraid to voice them. Back in February of this year,
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