Tuesday After
Restoring the Lost Republic
Flipping through today’s WSJ I came across the quoted letter written in response to the July 30th “Hobbit” opinion piece. Kudos to Mr. Stevenot. Well said!
Regarding your editorial “The Debt-Limit Hobbits” (July 30): I join with my other southwest Ohio tea-party leaders in opposing the Boehner plan because we’ll get less than 3% “real” spending cuts in a government that has bloated 40% in four years, and this is not enough. Authorizing $1 trillion in new debt today for the promise of cuts which may or may not work out to be more than that over 10 years is an unfavorable deal.
Kudos to the Club for Growth, Heritage Action, Jim Jordan, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann and others for standing on principle and opposing this plan.
As for Middle Earth, to quote Gandalf, standing before the hordes of Mordor at the Black Gate, “Surety you crave! Sauron gives none. If you sue for his clemency you must first do his bidding. These are his terms. Take them or leave them” . . . But as for your terms, we reject them utterly. . . . Begone!”
Ted Stevenot
Co-founder
Clermont County Tea Party
Cincinnati
Today we wake to the news that a compromise has been reached in the looming debt crisis. Sadly that compromise is more of the same hollow Washington gamesmanship. I looked for a copy of the proposed bill and thanks to Jake Tapper on Twitter a link to the 74 page spending bill was provided. I do not profess a legal background and Lord knows how far into the weeds you must go to understand the statutory language but the bottom line is the measure does nothing to reduce debt and only hints at a Balanced Budget Amendment.
I woke up this morning to the news of a Government shutdown being averted. “It’s morning in America” as Ronald Reagan is often credited as saying. Sadly little appears to have changed. Many news sources appear to be trumpeting the success achieved in bringing intransigent Republicans around to accepting approximately 38.5 Billion dollars in cuts for the remainder of the budget year. The Philadelphia Post-Gazette online carried a New York Times piece by Carl Hulse; Budget Deal Reached to Avert Shutdown; Vote Set Next Week After 6-Day ‘Bridge’ detailing the generalities of the debate.
The article built as its premise budget cuts and fiscal sanity as the drivers behind the public mood in general and TEA Party specifically with regard to the Federal Government. Mr. Hulse quotes Speaker Boehner, presumably coming out of the late night meetings “This has been a lot of discussion and a long fight. But we fought to keep government spending down because it really will in fact help create a better environment for job creators in our country.” He goes on to quote the President’s response “Programs people rely on will be cut back. Needed infrastructure projects will be delayed.” In my opinion these two quotes show how fundamentally disconnected the elites in the Capital are from the public who sent them there.
Sen. Chuck Schumer - Ron Sachs / CNP
The past couple of days have been buzzing with the revelation that the strategy of the Democratic Party was to focus on forcing a Federal Government shutdown over budget negotiations. The revelation came from none other than the party’s standard bearer Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). In the beginning moments of a scheduled conference call to discuss the budget impasse he revealed the leadership’s marching orders. “I always use the word extreme, that’s what the caucus instructed me to do the other week, extreme cuts and all these riders, and Boehner’s in a box. But if he supports the TEA Party there’s going to inevitably be a shutdown. What we are trying to do here…” It is at this point the Senator appears to realize not just the party faithful are on the call.
Validating this strategy former DNC Chairman Howard Dean suggested the party quietly root for a shutdown. “I wouldn’t like a shutdown from a statesman-like point of view. But if I was head of the DNC, I would be quietly rooting for i. From a partisan point of view, I think it would be the best thing in the world to have a shutdown.” Chairman Dean was speaking as part of a panel addressing the National Journal Insiders Conference on March 29th, 2011.
A notice came home late last week buried in my son’s homework and pass backs of completed work. Like most parents I’m used to seeing notices for this or that and gave this one the cursory scan. This notice, however, commanded closer scrutiny. Coming from the Office of the Superintendent Round Lake Area Schools CUSD #116 announcing a necessary amendment to the school calendar. The notice opens
Please note that due to a necessary amendment to this year’s calendar Monday, March 21,2011 will be an early release day for students in grades K-12. Please see the release times for each school listed below. (emphasis mine)
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