More and more good news keeps coming out of the House – from NRO:
…As of Monday early afternoon, House Republicans were officially undecided as to whether they’d take on entitlements when they write the budget this year. Fiscal-hawk extraordinaire Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, danced around the issue in a meeting with reporters. After trashing Obama’s budget for its failure to include entitlement reform, Ryan refused to say whether he’d include it in his own. Little did he know that just as he was reluctantly deflecting the question, House majority leader Eric Cantor was dropping a bombshell in a pen-and-pad briefing with reporters elsewhere in the Capitol: Republicans, Cantor said, are all-in on entitlement reform…
I watched Obama’s presser on Tuesday morning – or, to be honest, as much of it as I could stomach – and was just disgusted with both his dishonesty as well as his clear contempt for the people…and even for the reporters who were, on the whole, just asking the obvious questions (such as when Obama was asked how his “not add to the debt” pledge can be squared with the fact that his proposal adds debt for each of the next ten years). But what clearly emerged from it is that Obama is resigning the offensive on real budget reform to the GOP – whether its because of a conviction in favor of spending or fear of offending his grasping, leftist base, Obama simply will not address the actual fiscal crisis. That leaves the field to the GOP – and the GOP seems to be realizing that Obama’s retreat is a stunning opportunity for GOP victory.
The people are demanding that the government get its fiscal house in order – and no funny business! No pretend cuts and secret tax and spending hikes hidden behind a fog of budget-cutting rhetoric. Right now is the time for the GOP to act – to present a budget plan to the people which really does make the hard choices and genuinely brings spending under control. At that point, let Harry Reid block it in the Senate – and if we get it through there (and we probably will, on the votes of the “2012 Democrats” fearful of being defeated), then let Obama veto it. Democrats have dreams of a 1995-style government shut down redounding to their credit as it did to Clinton’s – but it won’t, because the New Media will ensure that the people know the truth of it, and that was absent in 1995. Additionally, people have heard it all before – not least in 1995: how budget cuts are about beating puppies to death with tire irons and spending is giving food to granny. We know – the people know – that those who don’t want to cut spending just want to keep the gravy train rolling.
Let’s have this fight – let’s do some deep cuts to spending and present it to the people. I believe they’re up to it – and if by some chance they reject us on it, then that works out ok, too. If the people reject steep budget cuts now and punish us in 2012, then when the final crash comes, we’ll have proven ourselves to be both correct, and courageous. At that point, it’ll be a no-brainer; they’ll turn to us, and give us the power to do what needs to be done. But I think they’re ready right now – that when it comes to a fight, and even a shutdown, the people will back the GOP.
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