NEVER TOLERATE TYRANNY!....Conservative voices from the GRASSROOTS.
Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, Bob Corker, John McCain.
Remember George Bush the elder and his LIPS?
YEP! These new REPUBLICAN leaders of ours forget to read HISTORY!
They are giving up their promise to never raise taxes.
Politics is not a game that comes naturally to Republicans. Little boys in Republican families usually want a briefcase, not a baseball glove, a football or a boxing glove for their sixth birthday. Ronald Reagan, the modern Republican icon, was a Democrat first, after all.
The giants of Congress when Congress was respected – and, more important, feared – by nearly everyone, were mostly Democrats, and Southern Democrats besides.
So there’s no surprise now that Barack Obama, armed with a well-fitting suit, well-shined shoes, a gift of gab and a unique skill at hijacking America for extended guilt trips, is about to roll the Republicans at the lip of Fiscal Cliff.
Several Republicans who were breathing fire (or at least an occasional puff of smoke) only yesterday, loudly proclaiming themselves warrior heroes in the war on irresponsible spending and the evils of big government, are searching now for something white to run up the regimental flagstaff.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia – what passes now for stalwart Republicans – have signaled to the White House that now that they’ve got the speechifying off their chests, they’re ready to do what they said they would never do. They want to relieve the president of any notion that he’ll have to offer something in return for their help to raise taxes. A pat on the head would be nice, but not necessary.
Republicans are brought up to believe that it’s always easier to switch than fight, and better manners besides. Making noise, even to call a lifeguard when someone is drowning, is a breach of pool-side etiquette.
Nearly everyone understands that something must be done about the national debt and the mortgage on America held by China, lest Barack Obama and the Democrats turn America into Greece without the garlic. This might even require a combination of selected tax increases and deep cuts in spending, particularly cuts in the entitlements that have reduced large swaths of the population – Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” – to waiting for government checks, drawn on the public’s bank account.
But a surrender before negotiations begin is a craven and silly strategy. The November election results have frightened many Republican politicians who read daily prescriptions for Republican recovery in the New York Times and the Washington Post and conclude that the only strategy for winning like Democrats must be sex-change surgery.
Saxby Chambliss, for one prominent example, led the flight from the sound of the guns, renouncing his no-new-taxes pledge even before hearing an Obama promise to cut spending. In the past, such Democratic promises haven’t been worth much. Mr. Chambliss is an experienced sunshine soldier.
He took military deferments during the Vietnam war, and never served; in an earlier, more robust America, this would have been called “draft-dodging.” Running later against Sen. Max Cleland, who left several arms and legs on the Vietnam battlefield, Mr. Chambliss suggested in one campaign commercial that the amputee warrior was a soulmate of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein simply because he was skeptical of the creation of the Homeland Security Administration.
The campaign commercial, over the line or not, was clever, one Republican strategist said, because it worked. John McCain, who had proved a thing or two about patriotism and raw courage in a prison cell at the notorious Hanoi Hilton, called the Chambliss commercial “worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”
But even Mr. McCain sometimes has trouble with what the Marines call “fire discipline,” shooting when the shooter later wishes he hadn’t. A fortnight ago, he warned President Obama not to appoint Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, as secretary of state because she led the White House cover-up of what happened in Benghazi. But now he and Miss Rice are blowing kisses at each other. Lindsey Graham, who had romped when Mr. McCain stomped, now says she only should be held “accountable” for whatever it was that she did, if she did.
Second thoughts may be better than no thoughts at all, but politicians who succeed at flying by the seat of their pants know that the climb-down from brave talk never feels as good as blowing hard in the first place.
Republicans tempted to renounce their no-tax pledges in return for a few nice words from the Democratic media should keep in mind what happened to President George Bush the elder. He invited one and all to “read my lips, no new taxes.” One and all did just that. The rest is history, about what happens to faithless politicians.
Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.
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Do these mental giants think the liberal progressive democrat machine is EVER going to let the voters of this Republic forget that they went back on their pledge to NOT raise taxes??? I can't scream that question loud enough on this computer!!!
The answer of course is a big fat NO!
With leaders like Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Graham, Chambliss, Corker, etc. who needs enemies.
When a person has NO core beliefs OR who is willing to compromise those tenants upon which their personal and political character is built, THAT person cannot and should not be trusted and should not be a leader.
George Bush the elder learned that lesson the hard way when he told We the People, "read my lips, NO NEW TAXES."
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And don't give me any of that crap about, "but we're about to go over a "fiscal cliff" ! Our economic "crisis" is only a recovery away. The recovery will happen with or without meddling by congress and no matter how many billions, make that (T)rillions of dollars Obama gives away to his favorite compatriots, the muslim terrorists, or his wife and family for vacation travel.
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Here's the NEW TEA PARTY cry:
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NO NEW TAXES! TAKE US OVER THE CLIFF! LETS SEE WHAT"S DOWN THERE!
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