Just FIVE votes short of killing the debt ceiling raise in the Senate
That makes Traitorous Thom Tillis’ YES vote even tougher to tolerate. Just 36 of the 100 senators — including our own Ted Budd — had the courage to step up and say HELL NO. (Forty-one NO votes would have stopped this travesty dead.)
As we’ve said before, all of this talk about DEFAULT is 100 percent bullcrap. So is the alleged threat on veterans and retirement benefits.
Money is printed nearly non-stop. We have the inflation to prove it. The only way we would default on our financial obligations would be for someone in power to say: “No, I’m not writing the check.”
And THAT won’t happen.
We’re already headed for a major national economic disaster. Stopping this travesty MIGHT have softened the coming blow a little.
The debt ceiling legislation caps defense spending, even though debt service payments and social welfare payments are our two biggest bills every year. (I won’t go as far as to say there is no waste in the military. It has a money-wasting bureaucracy just like all other areas of the federal government. But there are other areas that deserve belt-tightening much more.)
This bill even raises the debt limit HIGHER than what Biden originally asked for!
Back to Traitorous Thom. Will Michael Whatley give him another award for his YES vote here? Voting YES on the debt ceiling IS party disloyalty. It flies in the face of the platform. Running up massive debt is bad for my and your household. It’s just as bad for our communities, our states, and our country.
Oh, there will be plenty of people to still cheer Thom on. You’ll find them mostly at the NCGOP convention and at various NCGOP functions. Those people claim they are all about ‘growing’ the Republican Party. Well, what would be your selling points? The party has endorsed growing government bigger (Medicaid expansion), running up even more unmanageable debt, and the radical gay agenda.
The Democrats offer the SAME thing! Except they never never never move to the right or ‘cross the aisle.’ They wait for GOP weaselly tail-tuckers (like Tilli$$$) to come running to them.
Want to send a message about this nonsense? Send Tillis’ boy Whatley packing at the NCGOP convention. After all, Traitorous Thom put him in the job. Show TT an example of what’s waiting for him if he’s stupid enough to run for reelection (or anything else).
The hysterical left, their supporters in the media, and the RINOs all want to act like tax money stops coming in.
Here is the fact of the matter.
Tax money is still rolling in. When we hit the debt ceiling, the government just can’t spend more than they take in….You know, like all American citizens.
Current federal deficit spending is ~22%.
Assuming that is true, that means govt.org has to cut back spending ~22%, raise revenue through taxes or selling things, or a combination of both.
But, here is the real way to look at it.
Since 2019, Federal Government spending has increased 32%.
Go back to pre-pandemic spending levels and the entire deficit is erased while also ending inflation.
The best way to send a message to Tillis is to take out his errand boy Whatley as NCGOP chairman. It is outrageous that we have a Tillis puppet in that position.
NEVER TILLIS, NEVER WHATLEY.
Thom Tillis doesn’t give a d@#n about anybody other than Thom Tillis. If the NC GOP State Convention doesn’t fire his errand-boy, Michael Whatley, they deserve what they’ll get, which will be hundreds (if not thousands) of conservatives abandoning the party. I’ll be first in line!
Michael Whatley continues to do everything he can to protect Tillis. He appointed a full-time paid Tillis staffer to the resolutions committee over my objections as then NC11 Chair. And then his appointed committee chair put her in charge of the censure!! Are you kidding me??
He has weaponized the Resolutions Committee to prevent the censure from a floor vote. He stated tonight 51 counties voted to censure Tillis, but when asked if he would vote to censure him, HE REFUSED TO ANSWER!
Whatley has asked for endorsements all over DC & Jones St & he has only 1. Can you guess? Yes – Thom Tillis!
We have a chance to make real change at the NCGOP with John Kane!!
If not now, then when?
If not us, then who?
IF you want to be incensed and lose your mind, listen to Matt Boyle on Breitbart this morning. He has THE YEA R Senators on TO DEFEND themselves, give them cover and clap like a seal HOW THIS WAS A GOOD BILL!!
BB is fox-lite right now but soon to join FN as yet another GOPe, RINO, Establishment network.
Boyle actually made the statement, McCarthy was a GOOD leader.
In the past, I never missed BB’s 6am show but turned if off months ago. Cheerleaders for the Uniparty now.
While driving this morning, tuned into the show. I listened to Joni Ernst and Derik from Iowa, cheerlead for themselves, the party, THE BILL, and became so angry, changed the channels.
Whether it is in NC or nationwide, there is simply no conservative principles or leaders or anyone that dares call out the hypocrites.
I wondered after I changed the channel, if our dear comrade Murphy had called in to join the celebration and the defense party?
I was pleasantly surprised that more Republican senators voted against this McCarthy-Biden boondoggle than voted for it, with 31 against and 17 for it. Sen. Joni Ernst was a disappointment. I remember her campaign ads her first election mentioning that as a child on the farm she learned how to castrate hogs and her tag line to elect her and “make them squeal”. She certainly did nothing this time around to make anyone squeal. Ted Budd did what I expected and made us proud, just like the late Walter Jones and the late Jesse Helms used to do.