Harry Reid Changes Senate Rules…Goes Nuclear

Oh boy….Reid has gone over the edge and he will rue the day once the Republicans retake the majority in the Senate:

In a stunning turn of events this evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used an arcane legislative maneuver to effectively rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes on the majority.

Democrats Threaten Government Shutdown, Hold Up Of Disaster Relief, To Protect Green Energy Cronies

So let me get this straight. With unemployment over 9%, with our economy in shambles, and the world starting to panic over their own economy, the brilliant plan by Reid and his cronies is to shut down the federal government?

Wow!

Harry Reid’s Picks For The ‘Super-Committee’ Are In….Politics As Usual

Evidence that this country is on its way to the trash bin of history ala Rome:

In the first of what will be a closely watched selection process for a powerful new deficit panel, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he will appoint Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Max Baucus (Mont.) and John Kerry (Mass.) as his three choices for a super committee charged with finding more than $1 trillion in spending cuts by the end of this year.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me all the time, I am a democrat [Reader Post]

Caught this article in Obamico Politico:

President Obama looks past debt debate to job creation

President Barack Obama on Tuesday called a compromise to raise the debt ceiling and launch the U.S. government on a path toward deficit reduction “just the first step” toward strengthening the country’s economy and creating jobs.

Debt Limit Drama Continues….Boehner Producing Bill Tied To A Balanced Budget Amendment; Update: More on the Reid Bill & Boehner gets a standing ovation; Update: RINO’s set to vote for Reid’s Bill; Update: Boehner’s Bill Passes after he unloads on Obama

As we all know, Boehner’s plan was shelved last night due to enough opposition from enough House Republicans to kill the bill:

Just said by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said to Sean Hannity on Fox in live interview. If Paul is right — that there are as many as 10-14 GOP Senators who may vote against Boehner, which another report says is at this minute being “tweaked” to get conservative votes in the House — the Boehner plan as is known at this second is dead for sure.

If hypocrisy was a crime, democrats would be looking at the death penalty. Part II [Reader Post]

Several days ago Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) coughed up a furball. He asserted that Republicans who sought a Balanced Budget Amendment were now part of a “cult.”

Senate Democrats attacked the “Cut, Cap and Balance” measure on Wednesday, calling the House-passed bill “devoid of substance” and “dead on arrival” in the Senate, where it will receive a vote later this week.

Debt Ceiling Talks Break Down….Again; Obama – Tax Hikes not “some wild-eyed socialist position”

Talks broke down on the debt deal…again, and we all know why. The Democrats were upset about the deal Obama was about to make so at the last minute he moved the goal posts and expected the Republicans to cave. Didn’t happen:

[Boehner] said the two sides had agreed on an unspecified amount of revenue to be included in deficit reduction, achieved by broadening the number of Americans who pay taxes and lowering general tax rates. But he said President Obama on Thursday demanded another $400 billion in revenue, which Boehner said “was going to be nothing more than a tax hike on the American people.”

Democrats Say, Huntsman Is Our Man

The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we’re only in a recession, not a depression — as if definitions — words — relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it’s a definition he wants, I’ll give him one: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his!

Dem Congress uses same ol’ playbook – no budget offering from them

When it comes to main street’s kitchen table, the American family can’t hide from a need to tighten the belt because of of budget restrictions. When survival is at stake, a hard look at the check book, weighed against the income and higher expenses of daily living, must happen and spending is triaged for only what is absolutely vital. Such responsibilities are, apparently, above the Democrats in Congress.

Continuing their latest playbook antics of politics, Harry Reid isn’t shy about about the Democrat “run and hide” strategy when it comes to spending, and proclaims to the press it would be “foolish” for the Democrats to propose a budget.

Raising the debt ceiling is a sign of leadership failure [Reader Post]

A vote on raising the debt ceiling looms.

Barack Obama on raising the debt ceiling in 2006:

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure,” he said on March 16, 2006. “Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership . Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”