No more campaign ads. No more speculation about what will happen on November 2nd. The election is over and the results are resounding. The American people have repudiated the way the government has conducted itself over the past four years under a democrat controlled congress — and even more so — an extremely liberal/socialist administration.
Two or three weeks before the election, the halls of Capitol Hill, the blogs, and the editorial media (yup, talk shows too) started buzzing with word that conservatives and republicans were poised to take over the House by a huge margin and would compete for the Senate. With that in mind, word was, the Rs were ready to compromise with the (D)s and the Obama administration. Umm.. SAY WHAT?!
With that in mind, I started inviting every0ne and anyone who was running for office on my shows and I asked the (R)s a direct question: if you get control of at the least the House and maybe the Senate — there’s word you’re going to compromise with the Ds.. any truth to that?” Everyone I asked said, without doubt, “NO.” I believe people are basically truthful and want to be honest. I believe politics and power corrupt. And, I believe politicians and wannabe experts think there’s a difference between “campaign mode” and what a politician does once he or she gets on the job.
A solid example of that is Sen. Scott Brown the alleged (R) from Massachusetts. He ran as a solid (R) who would be the 41 vote to allow a filibuster of the extreme, liberal agenda being forced upon us, the American people, by president Barrack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Maj Leader Harry Reid. Brown had the backing of the Tea Party movement and quickly turned his back on his alleged conservative values by voting with (D)s. In fact, ABC’s Byron Wolf reported in March of 2010: “During his month in the senate, Brown is just about evenly split, siding half the time with Democrats and half the time with Republicans.” I asked why this was okay on my shows and many callers said, “Come on, Pags — that was ‘campaign mode’ this is reality.” Huh? That’s unacceptable.
With that recent history and RINOs (Republican In Name Only) like Snow and Collins from Maine looked at by the administration and (D)s as practically guaranteed votes, the knee-jerk reactionary answer to the question of compromise is NO! But, hold on — is any compromise good? I can hear you screaming “NO!” Really? Let’s look a little closer.
This past week — on the heals of the self-proclaimed election shellacking — there was word of the Obama administration indicating they might be ready to compromise on the Bush tax cuts. Reports said, the president might be ready to accept, at least, a temporary extension of the current tax rates for all Americans who pay taxes. If that’s true — that’s compromise we can deal with, no? I explained this on my shows Friday (11/5/2010) and the phones lit up with people adamant that they wanted NO COMPROMISE! Huh? If working Americans who pay taxes can plan on their tax rates NOT going up next year — that’s great news. Further, if Americans making 250k/yr or more can plan on NOT getting a tax hike (this includes employers) then you’ll see the economy continue a real-sustainable rebound. Employers can hire more workers, add more goods or services, and agree to more research and development. As it is now, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to all of our tax rates is causing companies to stay in a holding pattern. It’s understandable that they wouldn’t want to hire if they’d have to incur an 11 percent tax increase on January 1, 2011.
Will Obama really sign into law an extension of the Bush tax cuts? He might not have much choice if the House and Senate send the bill his way. With than in mind, just this weekend, the president repeated the lie that he can’t see how it makes sense that we would borrow 700 billion dollars to pay for an extension of the tax cuts for the wealthy. He’s smarter than that, isn’t he? He knows you don’t pay for tax cuts doesn’t he? It is the American workers’ money — not the government’s. Nobody’s asking for a tax cut — what we want is an extension of the current tax rates. If government shrinks and actually spends less, then at the current tax rate, the deficit and debt would both be less next year, right? So, what is this lie about borrowing to pay for tax cuts? I digress. (D)s agreeing to extend the tax rate would be a compromise I’d accept.
In the Obamacare law, there is a provision that if a business buys something from vendor for more than $599.00 the business must give the vendor a 1099. Seriously — a 1099 as if the vendor were a subcontracted employee of the business. What the heck does that have to do with health care? NOTHING! There’s word, the (D)s in congress and the president are willing to get rid of that onerous provision. That’s good, right? WRONG! In this case, I do NOT want compromise. Here’s why. If we start picking and choosing what we want in or out or changed in Obamacare, we’re admitting that the basic principles of it are acceptable. They are not. What conservatives want — those who voted in the overwhelming change in congress — is that 2000 page piece of government take over garbage be throw on the fire and Washington start all over.
So, let’s define what is and isn’t acceptable to the traditional, constitution-loving, conservative-minded American people. Compromise is great — provided it’s the left compromising with the right. Here’s what was voted in on 11/02/2010: lower taxes, smaller government, less government control of our lives, no to cap and tax, and a full out repeal of Obamacare. So, if the (D)s want to compromise and toss out Obamacare and start all over. Good compromise. If the president wants to compromise and sign an extension of the Bush tax cuts — good compromise. If the (D)s want to compromise and forget cap and tax — good compromise. If they want to compromise and shrink government and roll back spending to 2006 or 2008 levels — good compromise. But, the American voters have been clear, conservatives and (R)s who just got swept into office may NOT compromise on what it was they promised as they campaigned. There is no campaign mode, ala Scott Brown, there is “do what you said you would do, or we will vote you out as well” mode. Got it? Good.
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