From PT Tatler:
…Yesterday House Speaker John Boehner made it clear he would not accept another temporary fix in the federal budget that did not include major cuts. According to Politico, his comments “triggered an immediate and fierce response from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who ramped up a cross-chamber fight Democrats have been waging against House Republicans for weeks over whether the GOP spending-cut demands could culminate in a shutdown on March 4, the date the government runs out of money. ‘”
As House leaders have repeatedly noted, only Democrats have been talking about shutting down the government, not Republicans. But it appears Democrats are in the mood for a show down that they hope will change the political calculus in their favor…
Remember that Obama’s Organizing for America group is behind the Wisconsin antics – it seems that our liberals are spoiling for a fight. The thinking seems to be that what rescued a Democrat President in 1995 was a fight over spending; that at the end of the day, the people don’t really want substantive cuts and will thus rally to the Democrats if government is shut down. Wisconsin is just a test of this – as this unfolds, Democrats will check polling and figure out if its working and if it needs to be tweaked. But the plan does seem to be to force a show down.
Our tactic should be to patiently but firmly keep repeating the obvious – we’re bankrupt. We can’t spend as much as some people would like. Everything has to be cut in at least some manner. Failure to do so is a betrayal of the United States. This is not, by the way, a sure-fire way to victory – maybe, in the end, the people will abandon us. Maybe so many have become hooked on Big Government that there is no ability to reduce spending. If that is the case, then so be it – once the complete collapse comes, they will turn back to us…but, meanwhile, there is no upside for us in compromise.
With that said, I do believe that firmness will lead to victory; things have changed mightily in the United States since 1995. First off, we’re vastly more in debt than we were back then. The economy is worse. America has suffered intense relative decline in the world. The New Media has arisen to provide alternative sources of information, thus breaking the 1995 near-monopoly on information the MSM had (really, back then, it was Rush, a few other talkers and a few small, conservative magazines; that was all we had to counter balance the networks, CNN, almost all the major dailies and scores of other outlets). The left will not be able to write a script and keep to it – already, because there is a New Media, the reality of those union stooges in Wisconsin is being shown to the people…and people aren’t liking the sight of taxpayer-funded union workers calling out sick to create a workday ruckus…nor the sight of Democrat Senators fleeing the State to avoid a fair, up or down vote.
So, let’s have this knock down, drag out; I’m ready for it. It’ll be fun, educational and, in the end, victorious for conservatism.
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