No, Mr. President, the time for compromise is NEVER!
Mathew Staver, Chairman Liberty Counsel Action
enough votes last night to pass his debt ceiling bill
and had to pull it from the floor. Sensing an advantage
while the Speaker was retrenching, President Obama called
a special press conference Friday morning. His message's
sound bite? "The time for compromise is now!"
By "compromise," of course, the President means he wants
to raise the debt ceiling, raise taxes, and generally
continue the disastrous spending of the past 30 months.
But Liberty Counsel Action says, "NO"!
This is a crucial time for grassroots, conservative
Americans to prove that the power of last fall's elections
were not a flash-in-the-pan event. We must make certain
our voice continues to be heard! Read my urgent
message below - Mat.
As I write this, Speaker Boehner and other House Republicans
are frantically drafting another revised debt ceiling bill in
order to pass it and get it to the Senate before the August
2nd deadline. A vote in the House is expected later today,
assuming the Speaker thinks he has enough votes to pass it.
Further, the delay in the House has emboldened Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid to re-start efforts to produce
a Senate version of the bill, allegedly engaging Republicans
in the process.
So, as of right now, the ONLY debt ceiling bill to
emerge out of either congressional chamber is the
House's original "Cut, Cap and Balance" legislation.
It has proven to be one of the more level approaches to
this dire national crisis. It overwhelmingly passed the
House, while Senator Reid called it a "waste of time"
and made sure it got tabled in the Senate. Nonetheless,
it contains the basic principles necessary to forge a
path out of this escalating fiscal crisis!
The "Cut, Cap and Balance" concept IS what most conservatives
want out of Congress. It is what we hoped for when the power
of our votes "flipped" the House and dramatically changing
the makeup of the Senate last November.
That's why Liberty Counsel Action continues to call on
every concerned American to take part in a massive "Fax
Barrage" to Senators urging them to pass a bill containing
the core elements of the "Cut, Cap and Balance" initiative!
We steadfastly continue to call for a step in the right
direction to reign in government spending, exercise fiscal
restraint, and create more accountability!
Our massive Fax Barrage includes an immediate and
steady stream of faxes to your two Senators and other
key leaders.
Obviously, no one knows the exact form a successful bill
will eventually take, but we MUST continue to insist that
the Senate endorse the core principals the House originally
passed!
Even if you have already sent faxes, please click here to
get your personalized messages delivered to the United
States Senate:
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If you prefer, we always encourage you to send your own
faxes. We have provided all the information you need to
reach Senators here:
http://www.lcaction.org/r.asp?U=45713&CID=652&RID=32101292
++Watch for the "blame game" - and the media's leading role!
I fully expect that President Obama and the Democrat
leftist-controlled Senate will ramp up the blame toward the
House and Senate conservatives concerning this crisis - from
now all the way to Election Day 2012!
But no matter what the President and his followers say, here
are some undeniable facts about this intensifying crisis:
1) President Obama does NOT have a debt plan and he has yet
to offer anything specific other than calling for increases
in revenue through tax restructuring (code words for raising
taxes). You really can't blame him - his budget proposal in
February was obliterated by the Senate with a 97-0 vote!
2) The President has successfully created class warfare in
America by calling for more taxes on the "rich" and
suggesting the "rich" don't pay their fair share (this
naked assertion is completely untrue, but it serves the
administration's purpose).
3) The Democrats have NOT brought any proposals to the
table, with the exception of Harry Reid's proposal, which
is riddled with gimmicky accounting and is rightly being
panned for including "savings" like "fraud reduction" and
defense savings AFTER we withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq.
4) The August 2nd "deadline" is entirely arbitrary and has
been used to create a counterfeit motive for passing a less-
than-desirable piece of legislation. The United States
government will NOT default on our loans or hold benefit
checks if August 2nd comes and goes without a debt ceiling
bill in place.
Here's the bottom line: We cannot allow irresponsible,
out-of-control government spending to continue taking
the United States further into insurmountable debt!
We all know that if leftists continue to
have their way in rampant spending, increasing entitlements,
and expanding government, America won't last much longer. We
cannot stand by silently during the most important policy
battle of our lifetime!
I believe the pressure from Liberty Counsel Action team
members across the nation is having a real impact! Click
here to send your personalized faxes to the Senate:
http://www.lcaction.org/r.asp?U=45714&CID=652&RID=32101292
And thank you, as always, for being a valued team member
of Liberty Counsel Action!
God bless you,
Mathew Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action
P.S. The House is open this weekend! Remember that August
2nd is an artificial deadline created by the fear-mongering
tactics of the leftists! To grassroots Americans, it is
MUCH more important that Congress do the right thing in
changing our catastrophic fiscal course than to force
through a bad bill by August 2nd. Fax the Senate now!
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