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From Hot Air:

The Senate just voted down the House Cut Cap and Balance bill, 51-46. Reid danced on its grave, proclaiming it “over, dead, and done.” Back to the Democrat plan:

Nothing!

Which is exactly right – the thing to do, now, is to re-pass it in the House, maybe adding a few changes.  You know, deeper cuts to spending, lowering income tax rates, imposing a wealth tax on the billionaires who back liberalism.  Send it right back to the Senate and see if they keep at it…or, some day, come up with an alternative plan.  Either way, we win.

UPDATE:  Turns out this bill is not quite dead – Senator DeMint is going to try and force a vote next week.  Could be done, you know – those “2012 Democrats” don’t want to have a bunch of votes on record against a balanced budget; only need a few of them to break lose and it passes – and then it will be up to Obama to sign or veto.  So, we don’t at this point need to re-pass it in the House…but we should be prepared to do so, just in case.

Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air notes the CNN poll:

…One has to go thirteen paragraphs into the story to find CNN addressing this at all:

“Republicans like the “cut, cap, and balance” approach to the debt ceiling, as do Democrats and independents. Most Americans support a balanced budget amendment, and most, but not as many, think an amendment is necessary to get federal spending under control. A balanced budget amendment passed the House earlier this week, but a vote in the Senate is expected to fail.”

Er, yeah.  In other words, a consensus exists across all political lines that the CCB/BBA approach would be a good idea.  When one scrolls down to the crosstab sections of the raw data, the consensus becomes very, very clear.  The CCB/BBA approach wins majorities in every single demographic — including self-described liberals.  Sixty-three percent of Democrats back the House bill.  The least supportive age demographic is 50-64YOs at 62/37; the least supportive regional demographic is the Midwest at 61/39.  Even those who express opposition to the Tea Party supports it 53/47…

Naturally, CNN buried the story – they don’t really want to broadcast widely a poll of their own showing that Obama and his Congressional Democrats are out of step with the mainstream.  But, it is there – and it is clear:  the people want the government to cut spending, cap it and balance the budget.

The compromise, if the Democrats are at all interested, is to add a mix of tax hikes to CCB.  I know, I know, fellow Republicans – might as well ask us to have our finger nails ripped off.  But, seriously, we do have a liberal, Democrat President and a liberal, Democrat controlled Senate.  While we are clearly winning the debate on what needs to be done, we can’t ignore the will of the people as expressed in 2008 – elections do have consequences and we’ve got Barry and the (liberal) Boys until at least January 20th, 2013.  So, let’s talk compromise – my preference would be to insert my “wealth tax” proposal in to the mix (ie, a tax on wealth in excess of $5 million), but given the realities of the situation, we’d probably have to go along with some sort of income tax hike, though we would want to work it to be least damaging to small and mid-sized businesses.

But that, of course, would be if the Democrats were interested in compromise – or, indeed, if they even knew what compromise is.  They don’t – liberals are entirely “my way or the highway”.  And, in truth, they are rather stuck – if the budget is balanced and government stops growing, there ceases to be a reason for liberalism – as they have constructed it – to exist.  Real liberalism – even though still fundamentally wrong – could continue to exist; but this quasi-socialist, racialist, neo-fascist liberalism of modern America has no place in an America where the era of big government is really over.

For us it is just a matter of holding firm – do not give in.  Just keep insisting on CCB.  The Democrats will either be dragged kicking and screaming to it, or they’ll blow the whole thing wide open and be forced to carry a defense of Big Government in to 2012.  There is no way for us to lose unless we give in.

Sherry Jeffe over at NBC LA:

…The outcry that followed the Commission’s first draft of new district lines seemed to knock the new approach off-kilter.

Latino leaders demanded more districts, to reflect their increasing demographic and political clout (not to mention the mandate of the federal Voting Rights Act).

Their cries of “Foul!” were echoed by Republicans worried that, because of the state’s changing demographics, their new districts will include dangerously high numbers of Latinos—not a GOP-friendly voter group.

African-American activists decried proposed boundaries that could lead to fewer black lawmakers. L.A.’s Westside is reeling from the possible loss of at least one of the most powerful Jewish-Americans in Congress…

Here’s the thing, Jeffe clearly considers this bad – bad that the citizens commission didn’t make more Latino districts, didn’t make more black districts, may force GOPers to compete for hispanic votes, that an entrenched Los Angeles politician might lose his life-seat.  To me, this is all just great – and, in fact, the more “screwed up” the commission makes the districts, the better.

You see, what Jeffe – and everyone else who is either of the Ruling Class or unable to break free and start thinking independently – doesn’t realize is that having things made messy is a feature of a democratically governed republic, not a bug.  It is supposed to be like that – we’re not supposed to have life-long, professional politicians and their aids working things out for us.  We’re supposed to do it all on our own – with untrained, inexperienced regular folks just getting together to hash it out and then going back to be citizens living under the laws they made.

Bill Buckley once opined that he’d rather be governed by the first 100 names in the phone book than an Ivy League faculty – and he said this because, at bottom, he knew that was the way it is supposed to be.  Self rule must be just that – we, the people, ruling ourselves.  Sure, representative democracy…but the people who represent us are supposed to be us.  You know, send your neighbor Fred to Congress for a couple years and then send Nancy and after that maybe Jeff down the block.  We’re not supposed to have 18 term House members who are so entrenched that they start to seek a chosen successor when senility finally makes them incapable of spending other people’s money.

And we’re not supposed to be carved up by skin color, religious affinity or anything like that.  We’re supposed to be carved up by the area we live in, because it is a certainty that people living in a given area have similar interests.  That is why districts are supposed to be compact – not drawn with part of the district going down the middle of a street so that two entirely different areas can be stitched together to give a hack politician an easy ride to re-election.

Furthermore, inexperienced politicians can’t be crooks on the same level as career politicians.  It takes time to both learn how to steal on a grand scale, as well as to develope the ego necessary to think you should.  You have a worry that Congressional staffers would then really be in charge?  Simple – get rid of the Congressional staffers.  Make the Congressmen write their own bills and answer their own constituent mail…that will tell us who can put together a coherent sentence all on their own.  It’ll also give them less time to think up laws to impose on us, as well as less time to grand stand on fashionable issues.

Enough of this elitist mentality – as well as the serf mentality which sustains it.  Are we Americans, or not?  Have we even an ounce of the blood of Washington, Jefferson and Madison in us?  If we do, then it is time we proved it – by taking our government back.