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Gov. Haley Barbour just issued a verbatim statement about the debt deal: "The Budget Control Act is a major victory for conservatives both Republican and Tea Party. It is not perfect, but it is a big step in the right direction, which is all you can ask for when you have a Democrat Senate and a Democrat President. While there will be much left to do after this passes, this is a big step forward."

A couple random thoughts: Interesting how he separates Republicans from the Tea Party. And it's funny to see him, and other conservatives, buy into this childish game to refer to the "Democrat Senate" and "Democrat President," rather than Democratic. It makes them sound juvenile and a tad illiterate, sorry.

Shall we start calling them the Republic Party? I say yes.

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164199

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Delbert Hosemann even does it on the secretary of state's website: "Democrat Primaries." Funny.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2011-08-01T16:17:28-06:00

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164200

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Here's what Wikipedia says about the "Democrat Party" practice, or "epithet": "Democrat Party" is a political epithet used in the United States instead of "Democratic Party" when talking about the Democratic Party.[1] The term has been used in negative or hostile fashion by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party in party platforms, partisan speeches and press releases since 1940.[2] ... and now on taxpayer-funded government websites. Nice way to play partisan politics on the public's dime, Delbert.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2011-08-01T16:21:04-06:00

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164204

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The other thing that's interesting about his assertion is how much history there is to disprove it -- we generally do better under Democratic presidents (economically) and worse under Republicans. Each of the past three GOP presidents experienced a recession on their term -- after their policies had time to play out -- which might coincide with the modern GOP's anti-Math policies of lowering taxes in order to increase revenues, while increasing spending in order to raise the debt. "Borrow and spend" GOP policies are, on balance, worse than "tax and spend" Democratic policies.

Author

Todd Stauffer

Date

2011-08-01T16:38:42-06:00

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164205

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I'm not into name calling. I'm going to go with, Resist the Destroyer and he will flee from thee.

Author

Walt

Date

2011-08-01T16:47:03-06:00

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164215

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Senate passes the debt ceiling deal: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/02/debt.talks/index.html

Author

Todd Stauffer

Date

2011-08-02T10:51:08-06:00

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164218

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There's been some chatter out there I've seen over this idea that if you didn't vote for the debt ceiling deal, then you won't be "eligible" for the "super committee" that will decide the additional cuts and (hopefully) revenues that will come out later in the fall. While there might be some logic to that idea, it's interesting to see the conservative Weekly Standard get in a huff about it... and then walk it back quickly when they get through to someone of McConnell's staff. There’s the problem. If, say, a dozen of the strongest fiscal conservatives vote against the deal, the pool of Republicans that can be expected to hold the line on taxes shrinks very quickly. And if a key Republican objective for the committee is to block tax increases, the exclusion of these strong fiscal conservatives makes meeting that goal more difficult. What is the baseball on this thing? Do we get cuts coming from the supercommittee and then Obama gets a chance to veto the extension of the Bush tax cuts? That's what *actually* needs to happen... with the cuts back-loaded to get out of the way of growth after the recession... to get us back into some level of fiscal order. Could it be (odd as this might seem) that reasonable heads could prevail and some policy come out of this? (By the way, I'm undernourished right now and might be woozy, so the optimism is probably misplaced.)

Author

Todd Stauffer

Date

2011-08-02T12:16:54-06:00

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164297

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Much like the GOP theory that cutting taxes will raise revenue, we have now seen the GOP answer to rising unemployment is to Fire People! (cutting funding to the agencies that employ them) Also, their answer to a stalling economy is to pull money OUT of circulation. How can these be considered good policy?

Author

BobbyKearan

Date

2011-08-05T10:57:59-06:00