Saturday, January 10, 2009
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Romney/ House GOP Watch
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Posted by:
Amanda Carpenter at
2:14 PM
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I have two items of good news to report for our loyal, conservative Townhall readers.
First, there are new signs of life among House Republicans for fighting Barack Obama's $700 billion, or trillion, or whatever number he's floating out this week, stimulus bill. The new GOP House Whip Eric Cantor is sounding the alarm, urging supporters to enlist in the fight with this web video below. You can join his "Whip Team" HERE.
As a part of Cantor's effort to draw attention to the fight he's scheduled a special hearing for House Republicans to discuss alternative policy prescriptions next week. This acts as a counter to the hearings scheduled by the Democrats on the stimulus bill last week which did not allow any experts to testify who disagreed with the idea of a second stimulus bill.
This brings me to my second bit of good news. Mitt Romney will be the first one to testify at the hearing. This means Romney will be coming to Washington on Thursday to offer his ideas on how to help heal the economy....stay tuned!
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from reading your posts i thought that LSD had more to do with your skewed vision of reality than did your lds cult. |
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I can only say you are exactly right on every point. You have great insight. |
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Doesn't your faith teach 'love they neighbor, turn the other cheek, forgive the sins of others'etc., etc. etc.? See you come off as someone who is not tolerant, forging or loving. How else do you expect people to feel about you? You get as you give. |
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I did not start it, but heck, if that's how your biggoted mind works, knock yourself out.
I don't admire folks that don't walk the talk they preach. Sorry about not willing to walk down the double standards road with ya. |
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the fact that you do good by those children is overshadowed by your own (bigoted) since you love to throw that term around so much, attitude toward Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, showing your intolerance for anyone but Romney. And the hateful things you say about Huck and Palin should not come from the mind much less the mouth of a serious, God loving and compassionate Christian. That and the fact that you voted for s man with the experience of a one year term Senator (just for childish spite) over a Mayor/Governor with at least 3 to 4 times the experience because she is a beautiful, talented, intelligent woman is the problem (I) have with you. It might be easier for you to convince people you're a kind person if you showed anything but contempt for the conservative party. |
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Acutally, I'm new to Utah. I'm a native Californian, who moved here with my wonderful husband a few years ago. I've lived all over, and have NOT confined myself to one little corner of the world. (London, San Franciso, Napa, Florida, Texas, Los Angeles, Paris, Stockholm and Naples.)
Utah is pretty, and yes, we are the fastest growing state in the country. And we do welcome others here. It's a great place to live and raise kids.
I guess it threatens you all to have a LDS REAL woman with a REAL husband and REAL family on here speaking REAL truth. You too can have the wonderful life we enjoy. but you won't seek after it. |
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Not. My children were all once wards of the state. Parents who were on drugs, or abusers. Some of our birth parents are still in prison for the abuse they did to the children while in their care. Others were deported, to face the justice system in that country for 'missing' children (still not accounted for). I know you've never sat up all night with a 18 month who is going through withdrawl from Coke or Meth. We have. Or, having daughters who are afraid of any hispanic looking man (my husband is hispanic, but is of Italian ancestory). They run when they see someong looking like their birth father. He raped them. But hey, you keep up with your nutter ideas. I know there are folks here that will buy into it.
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It's going to be hard for me to call QM on her language skills after that last post where I messed up both names with capital letters and commas where they didn't need to be. That's what I get for hurrying. |
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Have you noticed that lately QM comes on and spews her vile remarks but does not reply to the comments left about her posts by others? I think that she should have the nerve to engage in a spirited debate other than hit and run like the coward she is. |
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2cents is rather pathetic ,Utah, the fatherland, is becoming less mormon everyday and she undoubtably feels threatened . Elitism is the last resort of the insecure. It allows her to demonize any and all who fail to acknowledge her little groups obvious(only to them) greatness.This is the same thinking that lead to Hitler and nazi Germany and right on down to Jim Jones and the mass deaths in guyana and it accounts for 2cents venom . |
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Ah, you are an elitist. I knew it all along, you believe Mormons are better people across the board. As Obama, your conceit and arrogance knows no bounds. What a joke and a laughing stock you are. Now I know why you voted for Obama; you share a kindred spirit. Are you a 'person of color?' |
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The proof is in the pudding as they say, and in your case, you prove all the accusations of your jealousy that Romney lost with the fact that the only posts you reply to are the ones with Romney, Huckabee or Palin in them. Small minds think small and yours is so enamored with Romney you are blind to anything else. That's sad twocents, and pathetic actually. There is a life after Romney out there somewhere. Do yourself a favor and search for it. |
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LOL. Can't get over the fact that LDS are more educated, more successful, have better families and know who they are and where they are going. You can learn about them too, if you only open your eyes and search for truth. Your so jelous of the Man Romney is, and jelous of his faith. Got Life? Most LDS do. Try it. |
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it is an activity that private parties engage in to mutual benefit. Supposing that an economics scholar inherited an autographed Babe Ruth baseball card, while a sports fan receives a signed copy of "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith. If they trade, then both parties feel themselves better off than they were before.
As for other countries subsidizing their industries: what's going on is that the governments are stealing from their citizens (through taxes) in order to give us Americans lower prices on stuff made in those countries. That can only continue for as long as the governments of the countries in question don't go bankrupt.
I don't blame the Chinese for "manipulating" their currency, when our own central bank manipulates ours so often. If we really are serious about making the dollar worth something, then we would take it out of the government's hands altogether and go for a free market in money, preferably commodity based, issued by private firms. |
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My 'skypixie' is real. Yours is not.
Hows the new dude working out for ya? Has he left you yet? |
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Mabye because hes dumb as a box of rocks and his 15 minutes are O-V-E-R?
Too funny. You think he's got something there, when in fact, he stole the idea from someone else, and jumped on it Late in the game. I'd vote for Obama before I'd vote for Huckles the clown or anyone of his ilk. Oh yea. I did that already when MacandCheesewiz were running. |
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is already being tried--massive government intervention in the economy when the free market seems not to work. Case in point #1 is MittCare; case in point #2 was Romney's promise to extend government funds to the auto industry in Dec. of '07.
Romney's supposed committment to free trade is really the only thing going for him, in my opinion. Keep the government out of our purchasing decisions, and oppose the corporate welfare that is protectionism (high tariffs and low import quotas).
Production is what really matters, not jobs. If someone invented a machine that could build, bake, serve, and otherwise produce all our needs with a minimal amount of effort on our part...well, it would be as close to nirvana as we could get. The economic progress of civilization is always toward the ideal of more stuff for less work. Trade is a vital part of the process in bringing us as close to that ideal as possible;
technology is another vital part that people used to (and possibly still do) fear as much as people fear trade today.
But trade allows specialization, which allows increasing levels of production, which means greater wealth for the community. |
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I wonder why Huck wasn't invited?....maybe it's because he's for the FairTax...an idea that would take the power away from Washington and give it to the people...
Let's take a look at what Huck said during the primaries....
1) economy is in bad shape..all the other republicans were asleep.
2) Huck bashed wall street when it wasn't cool to do by republicans.
3) huck was against these bailouts
The Incredible Huck is by far the greatest communicator of our generation...he doesn't need a teleprompter like obama.
HUCK 2012!!!!!!! |
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Amanda, don't become another Michael Medved. Republicans a)don't fight and b)are open to any and all deals.
They will "fight" until the pork piles up in their districts and then will say that they "had no choice" but to hold their noses and vote for the multi-trillion dollar "stimulus". You couldn't have forgotten already, could you? Remember September when the Republicans voted for the bank bailout?
Even McCain voted for it despite the fact he might have actually won if he had forcefully attacked the bill. Emails, letters and phone calls were running heavily against the bailout.
Why do people repeatedly grasp at these phony straws planted by Republicans? Everyone knows that the Republicans will never actually vote to lower spending. Didn't twelve years of Republican budget busting teach you anything?
Forget the Republicans. Bombard your officials with you opposition to the Obama plan and make it clear that this is a make or break issue. Swear to them that you will dedicate your life to defeating them in the next election if they vote for the bailout.
Or, you could let your Republican representative get a freeway named after him built in your district. If you're lucky, your home won't become an off ramp. |
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We need to adopt the following:
1.) Eliminate most-favored nation status for China
2.) Remove the fast-track power for trade agreements from the executive branch so that the Congress can amend agreements appropriately
3.) Secure the border and put a stop to the drain on wages due to illegal immigration
4.) Impose a series of quotas, tariffs, and subsidies fighting off:
(a) European & Canadian industry subsidization, including airplane manufacturing and paper manufacturing among others
(b) Chinese attempts to dominate the steel market
(c) Chinese attempts to purchase "hard assets" such as non-renewable natural resource deposits and firms that enjoy the benefits of market power
(d) Chinese attempts to manipulate the bilateral exchange rate of the dollar and yuan renminbi
(e) Poisoned Chinese goods and the lack of genuine Chinese effort to make any improvements on these which in turn endanger our civilian population (e.g. lead, melamine, et al)
Only after we eliminate our current account deficit (the sum of interest payments on our debts to the Chinese, our trade deficit with the rest of the world, and the loss of real money due to international remittances pertaining to illegals), pay down the national debt, and get serious about fighting off international attempts at robbing us will we be able to reestablish an independently determined foreign policy that works towards the best interests of the United States.
We were once the world's largest creditor nation, and we have gone to being its largest debtor. It's time to settle accounts. |
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We need to adopt the following:
1.) Eliminate most-favored nation status for China
2.) Remove the fast-track power for trade agreements from the executive branch so that the Congress can amend agreements appropriately
3.) Secure the border and put a stop to the drain on wages due to illegal immigration
4.) Impose a series of quotas, tariffs, and subsidies fighting off:
(a) European & Canadian industry subsidization, including airplane manufacturing and paper manufacturing among others
(b) Chinese attempts to dominate the steel market
(c) Chinese attempts to purchase "hard assets" such as non-renewable natural resource deposits and firms that enjoy the benefits of market power
(d) Chinese attempts to manipulate the bilateral exchange rate of the dollar and yuan renminbi
(e) Poisoned Chinese goods and the lack of genuine Chinese effort to make any improvements on these which in turn endanger our civilian population (e.g. lead, melamine, et al)
Only after we eliminate our current account deficit (the sum of interest payments on our debts to the Chinese, our trade deficit with the rest of the world, and the loss of real money due to international remittances pertaining to illegals), pay down the national debt, and get serious about fighting off international attempts at robbing us will we be able to reestablish an independently determined foreign policy that works towards the best interests of the United States.
We were once the world's largest creditor nation, and we have gone to being its largest debtor. It's time to settle accounts. |
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...Consider me underwhelmed. I saw him on Lou Dobbs once claiming that if American wages went down it wouldn't be due to free trade since the value of the marginal product of American labor was so much greater than that overseas.
Unfortunately, it never seemed to dawn on Romney that the only reason we enjoy such an advantage in that department is superior technology, and as soon as multi-national corporations move that tech overseas and train workers who are willing to accept less for their labor, American wages will go down in real terms.
But even with Romney's misguided overcommitment to free trade, it won't matter when we have Barack Obama who's committed to having underbidding illegal labor coming over to the U.S. to raise our unemployment rate even further, and send our national debt soaring with trillion dollar deficits for years to come. |
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I would like to point out that mitt was against the bailout before he was for it . It was guys like mitt with a lot of help from the dems that have trashed our economy .We need new solutions not the same old crap we have been getting from both parties . end the progressive income tax, neither party really wants to, cut corporate taxes , cut social programs .both parties have lead us down the road to socialism it needs to stop now! |
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Want to talk Fraud? Whre do we start with the huckabigot? He was on the local news station in Salt Lake, being interviewed. He's a bigot from the git go. You know, and you might even be one yourself.
Huckabigot is a total fraud. He took money from little old ladies to feather his own nest. At least Romney worked for his cash. |
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I noticed huckabigot was not called to Washington, to offer up his expert adivise. Pity, your guy now is nothing but a mediawhore. |
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HUCKABEE ??
Can you be serious? You could never, and I mean NEVER, get me to vote for Huckabee. |
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The only time Mitt & "good news" should be used in the same sentence is when Romney announces he will never run for president again.
how's that Romney universal Healthcare plan in Massachusetts working?
This is also the guy who was for the 700 billion bailout....he was against the auto bailout, but when campaigning in michigan last year, he promised to save every job in Michigan.
he's a liberal when it helps him and a conservative when it helps him.
he is a fraud..period!
Huckabee 2012!!!!!! |
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If Mitt can present a clear plan on the economy it could be something the GOP could rally behind. |
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