You Reap What You Don’t Sow!

You know there’s compromise when EVERYBODY is ticked off with any part of a deal. That’s what compromise is all about. Here’s what we got out of the Debt Ceiling Deal:

1) Your calls, emails and Tweets PUSHED a ‘brick wall’ into compromise.
2) The debt ceiling is raised which the Tea Party didn’t want.
3) Our nation will avoid default which the Tea Party was willing to risk.
4) 1 trillion – not the Tea Party’s 4 trillion - in spending cuts will be put into effect over a 10 YEAR period.
5) Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and unemployment benefits are OFF THE TABLE which the Tea Party didn’t want.
6) 1.4 trillion additional cuts covering a 10 year period must be hammered out by a BI PARTISAN SUPER COMMISSION and brought to a straight up or down Congressional vote in November. If the Super Commission vote doesn’t work, it will trigger “MANDATED” CUTS for defense (which Tea Partied Republicans don’t want) and “MANDATED” CUTS for entitlement programs (which Democrats don’t want). With Medicare, Medicaid , Social Security and unemployment BENEFITS out of the picture, the ONLY way to meet the Super Commission test – without invoking the “mandated cuts” - will be to put REVENUE provisions back in play!

One final note must be stated that I know many of you won’t want to hear. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE NUMBER OF CONGRESSIONAL VOTES. Right now Tea Partied House Republicans are in the MAJORITY. By law, the House is the ONLY sector of the Legislative Branch of Government where bills can be introduced for passage into law by the Senate and the signature of the President. The President DOES NOT have the Constitutional authority to pass a bill into law and he doesn’t have the Constitutional powers to manufacture votes where votes don’t exist, but YOU DO! So the next time ANY election opportunity pops up in your neck of the woods. GET OUT AND VOTE. That’s what the Tea Party did in 2010 when 60% of the rest of registered voters stayed home. YOU REAP WHAT YOU DON’T SOW!

No use crying over spilt “tea” though. You know what you’ve got to do at the ballot box in 2012. Now, let’s get the Tea Partied Republican House Majority to introduce a bill for JOB CREATION…

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Is either a complete patsy or a Koch-funded operative and I am not kidding. The Republicans know who is being blamed for the stress this put us through. They can't win the House in 2012 UNLESS they convince us to break ranks.

So Nader and other people are going to have lots of money to play with. And it's our rolling on the ground heads they will be playing with.

And it's a bad deal when you could have gotten a clean debt ceiling bill.

But hey, let's celebrate failure