Dan Riehl has a blog I really like - Riehl (pronounced real) World View. He, Erick Erickson and Michelle Malkin consistently share interesting insights from a conservative perspective. However, there is no monolith of opinion among conservatives, which sometimes makes it tough sledding at critical junctures like we face now with the debate to support yet another capitulation on principle or to stand our ground on the debt negotiations in D.C.
Speaker Boehner had a very effective rebuttal to our ubiquitous president's class warfare refrains - sing it with me, because of Bush . . . and my poor grandmother's college education grants, eating dog food that Republicans want to serve them and handicapped children - everybody now! Boehner did so well in offering a direct and immediate televised response, that his web site shut down from supporters. It's like the visceral response Trump and Chris Christie get in some quarters because they take on opponents in an unabashed and direct manner. But like Trump, Christie and recently Steve Wynn, Boehner is no conservative.
Riehl, like Eric Cantor who told conservatives to stop whining and vote, supports the new Boehner plan and used the businessman's creed to bring a solution, not a problem to frame his argument. My response, posting as 2nd Treatise, follows:
"So Dan, in the businessman versus politician formulation you're advancing here, what successful enterprise negotiates against itself to the advantage of competitors? Does Costco yield to Sam's Club on Sam's Club's terms just because that's what Sam's Club wants?
Why exactly must the House pass a new plan, especially one that gives Obama a blank check in exchange for $1 billion (or just 1/1000 down payment) in enforceable 1st year cuts and a panel? Sounds like a sub-prime no job, no income loan! Let's say the Senate doesn't pass the Boehner plan, are conservatives required to capitulate again and acquiesce to tax increases?
Cut cap and balance wasn't defeated, it has been tabled in the Senate. The House passed legislation that addresses the fiscal crisis that has the U.S. Debt rating under threat, the new Boehner plan will trigger a downgrade because it doesn't address the debt, only the less fiscally important ceiling.
Why is it it incumbent upon conservatives to yield when they've provided the tool that 20+ Democrat Senators are on the record for supporting, one that also provides a debt limit increase?"
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