◼ The Tea Party is Both Sensible and Victorious - Keith Koffler/White House Dossier
THIS COUNTRY IS ALREADY IN A STATE OF TOTAL DYSFUNCTION, AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS.
A state of dysfunction, mind you, brought to you by the “reasonable” people who have been striking deals for years that have created $17 trillion in debt and a possibly irreversible degree of Socialism that is lobotomizing our tradition of independent thinking and creativity, crippling free enterprise, and carving the soul out of the moral, God-fearing ethic that has made this nation the greatest on earth....
The Tea Party, with its willingness to demand a stop to this freak show by shuttering the government and halting debt payments, is revolutionary, but not radical. Because sometimes revolutionary action is the reasonable course. The Tea Party is no more radical than were our Founding Fathers, who also staged a revolution when there was no other choice.
Showing posts with label dysfunctional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dysfunctional. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Satisfaction with the country's governance dropped among Republicans from 11% to 8%; among independents from 26% to 15%. And -- are you paying attention Valerie Jarrett? -- among Democrats, satisfaction with their government plummeted from 54% to only 28%. In one month
◼ Hard truths: Obama's report card 1,724 days in - Andrew Malcolm/Investors Business Daily
...Last December Obama's approval rating among his political core of Democrats was 91%. Today, it is 78%, under 80% for the first time in nearly two years and just one point above his lowest approval ever. The 13-point drop among Democrats is greater even than the drop among U.S. adults overall.
Barely more than one-in-three business owners (37%) approve of Obama's job performance, despite his year-long delay in their having to implement ObamaCare. No profession surveyed delivered a majority of approving members. Business owners were the third lowest approving group, just above repairmen (35%), fisherman and farmers (34%) and just below construction workers (39%)....
Remember how in 2007-08 candidate Obama promised to be a political uniter who would end the harsh partisan divide in the nation's capital and get the federal government running efficiently? This month, for the first time since the 2008 election, jobs and the economy are no longer Americans' top concerns.
Today, the dysfunctional government is by far the top concern, listed by a whopping 33% of Americans. That's the highest percentage in three-quarters of a century, since before World War II. That eclipses the 19% who list the economy as the top national concern and the deficit, unemployment and healthcare, all at 12%. If that concern persists, voter unhappiness with incumbents could play a major role in the 2014 midterms, just 13 months away.
Two-out-of-three Americans see through Obama's hollow boasts of boosting domestic energy production to record levels. Fully 65% of likely voters do not believe the nation is doing enough to develop its own energy resources. And 57% of the same group favor building the Keystone XL pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Texas....
...Last December Obama's approval rating among his political core of Democrats was 91%. Today, it is 78%, under 80% for the first time in nearly two years and just one point above his lowest approval ever. The 13-point drop among Democrats is greater even than the drop among U.S. adults overall.
Barely more than one-in-three business owners (37%) approve of Obama's job performance, despite his year-long delay in their having to implement ObamaCare. No profession surveyed delivered a majority of approving members. Business owners were the third lowest approving group, just above repairmen (35%), fisherman and farmers (34%) and just below construction workers (39%)....
Remember how in 2007-08 candidate Obama promised to be a political uniter who would end the harsh partisan divide in the nation's capital and get the federal government running efficiently? This month, for the first time since the 2008 election, jobs and the economy are no longer Americans' top concerns.
Today, the dysfunctional government is by far the top concern, listed by a whopping 33% of Americans. That's the highest percentage in three-quarters of a century, since before World War II. That eclipses the 19% who list the economy as the top national concern and the deficit, unemployment and healthcare, all at 12%. If that concern persists, voter unhappiness with incumbents could play a major role in the 2014 midterms, just 13 months away.
Two-out-of-three Americans see through Obama's hollow boasts of boosting domestic energy production to record levels. Fully 65% of likely voters do not believe the nation is doing enough to develop its own energy resources. And 57% of the same group favor building the Keystone XL pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Texas....
The Real Dysfunction: A $17 Trillion National Debt
◼ Once again the media are full of talk about dysfunction and default, as the partial government shutdown threatens to linger until the federal government hits the limit of its borrowing capacity, possibly on Oct. 17. - CATO Institute
If in fact Congress doesn’t raise the ceiling by mid-October—or by November 1 or so, when the real crunch might come—then the federal government would be forbidden to borrow any more money beyond the legal limit of $16.699 trillion.
Congress and the president will work out the debt ceiling issue, if not by October 17 then a few days later. The real dysfunction is a federal budget that doubled in 10 years, unprecedented deficits as far as the eye can see, and a national debt bursting through its statutory limit of $16.699 trillion and heading toward 100 percent of GDP.
...Republicans and Democrats alike should be able to find wasteful, extravagant, and unnecessary programs to cut back or eliminate. And yet many voters, especially Tea Partiers, know that both parties have been responsible for the increased spending. Most Republicans, including today’s House leaders, voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, the Iraq war, the prescription drug entitlement, and the TARP bailout during the Bush years. That’s why fiscal conservatives have become very skeptical of bills that promise to cut spending some day—not this year, not next year, but swear to God some time in the next ten years. As the White Queen said to Alice, “Jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” Cuts tomorrow and cuts in the out-years—but never cuts today.
If the “dysfunctional” fight that has sent the establishment into hysterics finally results in some constraint on out-of-control spending, then it will have been well worth all the hand-wringing headlines. The problem is not a temporary mess on Capitol Hill and not a mythical default, it’s spending, deficits, and debt.
If in fact Congress doesn’t raise the ceiling by mid-October—or by November 1 or so, when the real crunch might come—then the federal government would be forbidden to borrow any more money beyond the legal limit of $16.699 trillion.
Congress and the president will work out the debt ceiling issue, if not by October 17 then a few days later. The real dysfunction is a federal budget that doubled in 10 years, unprecedented deficits as far as the eye can see, and a national debt bursting through its statutory limit of $16.699 trillion and heading toward 100 percent of GDP.
...Republicans and Democrats alike should be able to find wasteful, extravagant, and unnecessary programs to cut back or eliminate. And yet many voters, especially Tea Partiers, know that both parties have been responsible for the increased spending. Most Republicans, including today’s House leaders, voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, the Iraq war, the prescription drug entitlement, and the TARP bailout during the Bush years. That’s why fiscal conservatives have become very skeptical of bills that promise to cut spending some day—not this year, not next year, but swear to God some time in the next ten years. As the White Queen said to Alice, “Jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” Cuts tomorrow and cuts in the out-years—but never cuts today.
If the “dysfunctional” fight that has sent the establishment into hysterics finally results in some constraint on out-of-control spending, then it will have been well worth all the hand-wringing headlines. The problem is not a temporary mess on Capitol Hill and not a mythical default, it’s spending, deficits, and debt.
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