Senator Jim DeMint on the Debt Ceiling

[vaw32]

I agree with Jim, It is time to recall Obama like We did Grey Davis here in California.

[johnxavierie]

republican whack a doodles

[httm241]

@johnxavierie this is what happens when you put fred phelps into a position of power

[httm241]

fuck you jim demint 

[robertmike57]

The retard conservatives not Koch whores or billionaires are getting screwed by DeMint and his Fascist Brigade of big business goons.

[squeekycheese]

Heritage Foundation? Anyone who claims to promote limited government along with a strong national defense can take their traditional American values and shove them up their separate but equal ass checks..

[CMK227CR]

We need a balance budget to make America stronger. Period.

[willflo11]

@CMK227CR You're right! But you don't cut off your left leg to save your right one. 

[poindexterwitkowsky]

~~~^~^~^~^^^Republican$ voted 7 times to raise the DEBT CEILING under Bush JUNIOR. Their goal is not so much to to balance the budget as it is to keep Obama from getting re-elected. What is DISTURBING is the extent they are willing to go.  If the USA defaults the economy will essentailly come to a halt. It's predicted that over HALF A MILLION ADDITIONAL JOBS WILL THEN BE LOST. ~~~^~^^^~^~^WHAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE DOING IS NOT ONLY CRIMINAL BUT ALSO TREASONOUS.~^

[foofkanon]

try taxing the rich at reagan levels at least, and cutting the ridiculous defence budget more than the rest of the world combined. America needs to return to the government of the people, not of the uber rich who control both parties. These people have no loyalty to the nation state, their off shoreing and tricle down economics have impoverished the country. Neo liberalism at home and abroad doesnt work. These bastards are going after SS,medicare and medicaid and they think their christians,sick

[Ps2Viper87]

@foofkanon Fool!

[foofkanon]

@Ps2Viper87 Your country has spent 4 trillion on wars in the last 10 years and look at the result, bancruptcy and oil price,s through the roof not forgetting half a million dead.Good job you did,t spend that money on your own people because that would be socialism. Eicke warned you of the power of the military industrial complex and you call me a fool.

[Ps2Viper87]

@foofkanon If that were true then how come the the national debt was only 1.6 Trillion at the time Obama entered office?? Read the facts!!

[jgehb]

I suggest we hold Mr. Obama to a promise he broke (one of many) when he was running for President - have this debate broadcast on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what is involved and can see what facts/truth are being presented and where those facts/truth are coming from.

Let's stop with the easy verbal attacks being made by our all-knowing representatives in Washington, DC - claims that they don't have to back up.

Everyone: Don't LISTEN to what politicians say !!!

[HemiHead66]

Go Google the NYT article (( Cost-Cutters, Except When the Spending Is Back Home)) and see how the Tea-Party Repubs have a good ol time porking it up at the expense of education and healthcare etc. etc. You people will never learn. And just remember that Obama was bashed for all of it.

[olderandfunner]

A balanced budget amendment should and must be a clean act which properly and forcefully sets up a budget process, beginning with the House, each January, issuing a budget "guideline", by agency, from which the president will have 90 days to return a proposed budget, by agency, for the House's approval, disapproval, and changes. Each budget must include a 5% surplus from which the House can make other emergency appropriations as they may arise during the next fiscal year.

[willflo11]

@olderandfunner Saying no doesn't make their policies right, but it will make them accountable. Good luck tea baggers!

[PeterHebert123]

Obama is a puppet, an incompetent, and fraud.

[HemiHead66]

@PeterHebert123 Obama is a puppet & fraud?? No, yur just buying to much GOP BS. Go look at all the pork spending these Tea-Head politicians started doing after getting elected. Bachmann trying to replace a bridge with nothing wrong with it. One Repub - Palazzo voted with other Repbs to cut millions from a military bill, only to add an amendment to restore the money & build a ship using a company in his district.. Ya got sand on NJ beaches. Tim Scott - 300 mil for dredging in SC. Yur a sucker!

[cyn725]

Go to persistenceforprosperity (dot) org to sign go the petition to fight government spending!

Join Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and the 10,000 Americans who sign daily to cut, cap and balance the U.S. budget... Act now to make a difference!

[RamenReturns]

@cyn725 "Join Sarah Palin"

No.

[olejac]

easy to fix problem; bring all US soldiers back from Iraq and Afghanistan and end the Bush oil wars. After that, cut army spending by 50 % meaning USD 400 000 000 000 and fix the tax code.

[MorganaSC]

Cut, Cap and Balance is just political posturing, since it is obvious that, among other things, it is essentially impossible for the Senate to muster the needed 2/3 majority to pass a Budget Balance amendment. And as our President has said, "we don’t have any more time to engage in symbolic gestures; we don’t have any more time to posture. It’s time to get down to the business of actually solving this problem." Threatening to shoot the hostage/vote down the debt limit extension is irresponsible.

[WhereDidItAllGo7]

McConnell must step down. He is giving Obama ammunition to blame the GOP for a failed economy and grab once again the Presidency.

[asfdaadf]

the interview would be believable if you took that sh*t eating grin off your face sir. talk about a scripted interview. FAIL.

[pfizzbones]

@asfdaadf I would say, that it is completely believable when you have someone that speaks every day of his beliefs, and doesn't waiver. It's easy to speak about what is right for this country, when you actually believe it and stand by it, like Sen. DeMint does.  You can't say the same for most of the other weasels who have to change their message for each interest group. Truth flows pretty fluent from the lips when you stand by it.

[DennyB65]

To paraprhrase Lt. Col. West, anyone who votes for Obama in "12" has to have their gene pool questioned.

[RamenReturns]

@DennyB65 Yes ... because Michele Bachmann is such a viable alternative

[DennyB65]

@RamenReturns Anyone would be better than BO!

[RamenReturns]

@DennyB65 Nope.

[willflo11]

@DennyB65 Ridiculous comment! Everything Obama has done since in office has a good chance to improve the United States into the next decade. You definitely can't say that about the last Republican President. Get on board or go down in flames with the tea baggers!

[DennyB65]

@willflo11 LOL!! Well, I guess if you like cumbersome debt, stifling regulation and total disregard for our constitution (to name a few things) then yes, you would love this president. Bush 2nd term sucked ALMOST as bad as he started the spiral. Both parties suck. You might want to think about drinking the TEA, because it's here to stay!

[willflo11]

@DennyB65 Stifling regulation? Taxing the rich that look for every excuse to ship jobs overseas doesn't bother me a bit! If the super rich corporations are going to screw the American people by exporting jobs we might as well get more taxes for their indiscretion.

[DennyB65]

@willflo11 Now here is something we can agree on! I am all for closing tax loopholes for big corporations unless they agree to do 100% of their manufacturing/hiring in this country. The problem with that is that Obamas EPA is making that all but impossible. As far as personally wealthy individuals go, I am thankful for them as they have helped to keep the "wheels" rolling in an otherwise dead economy. They already pay more than their share of taxes. Less than half the population pay all the tax!

[oberonave]

Please!, Sen. DeMint, Please don't let the Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader forget what the American people communicated to our elected officials last November. Enough is enough....the more money the Dems want the more money they spend and it never ends. Please be our voice. Thank You!

[RamenReturns]

@oberonave Yes, even if it destroys the entire economy, we have to make a stand! Because we want a balanced budget, just like Ronald Reagan had!

Do you realize how dumb you sound? I have pointed it out in case you do not.

[willflo11]

@oberonave If the democrats weren't fiscally sound, do you think Clinton would have been able to hand over a surplus to Bush? Focus the blame where it belongs, on 2 wars.

[willflo11]

@willflo11 Noone can say republicans have a better track record for economic policy than democrats. Yet the tea baggers decide to pinpoint the largest problem we face in the last few decades and exploit it in a difficult economy just to advance their political standing. Dispicable! 

[PattonsBoots]

@willflo11

Why did Clinton have a surplus when he left office? Because after the Republican Revolution in 1994, he adopted centrist policies and abandoned the failed policies of the liberal left. Obama hasn't done that and instead has taken Bush's bad economic policies even further and deficit spent even more---more bailouts, a healthcare plan he wants to ram down our throats, and while we're mentioning wars, dare I say, Libya?

[willflo11]

@PattonsBoots I can't argue with the centrist comment, but if the Republicans had their way we would have taken the lead in Libya. Look it up! It's laughable how party politics comes back to bite you in the ... Or was it just another example of taking the opposite position because anything not Obama is the most popular option, even if letting Europe take the lead makes the most sense.