Will House Republicans unite against raising the debt limit?
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But Boehner must be referring to some tea party his wife, Debbie, is organizing – not the tea party movement that made him speaker.
There is not a single major tea party organization in America that supports Boehner's conciliatory, supplicating, appeasing approach toward Barack Obama and the Democrats.
In fact, I believe the tea party movement stands with me on the proper approach to this issue, which begins with opposing any hike in the debt limit thereby forcing Democrats to make dramatic and historic cuts in spending. (If I am wrong about this, I invite any tea partiers out there to let me know. I will be glad to hear from you and make your position known to the world – at which point you will likely be drummed out of the movement.)
Here's what Boehner told George Stepalloverus – er, excuse me, Stephanopoulos – of ABC News: "Listen, there's no daylight between the Tea Party and me."
"None?" Stephie asked incredulously.
"None," replied Boehner. "What they want is they want us to cut spending. They want us to deal with this crushing debt that's going to crush the future for our kids and grandkids. There's no daylight there,"
There's not only daylight – there's enough midday sunshine to deepen the speaker's tan.
The tea party may be quiet, right now – too quiet, if you ask me – but everyone I know in this movement believes Boehner is not using the power he has to extract the biggest cuts in the federal budget in American history without any bargaining or compromise or tete-à-tete with any Democrats in Washington.
All he has to do is give his fellow House Republicans permission to vote no on the impending debt limit increase. The rest takes care of itself. We're on the road back to constitutionally limited government that operates on its own ample revenues rather than borrowing from future generations.
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But that's not the approach Boehner has chosen.
He has chosen to dance with the Democrats – a tango that will end badly for him and the country and his party.
Make no mistake about it. Republicans were given control of the House because the tea party wanted to see real changes in the way business in Washington is conducted.
As we speak, at least one national tea party group is preparing to challenge Boehner's re-election bid in his own district in 2012. The tea party movement is furious with him.
What planet is this guy living on?
Boehner has neutered his own caucus' power by sending smoke signals to the Democrats from day one that he intends to approve raising the debt limit. He has said repeatedly it must be raised. In so doing, he has disarmed his most potent weapon in the battle to seek real budget reform that will cut the debt, not add to it.
He has fallen under the spell of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (or is that redundant?), who claim falsely that a refusal to raise the debt limit automatically spells default on U.S. loan obligations.
What refusal to raise the debt limit spells is (with apologies to Aretha Franklin) R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Americans need to send Boehner a message. And I have just the mechanism to do it.
It's called the "No More Red Ink" campaign.
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April 15, 2011