I certainly could live with a Senate Majority Leader Ron Johnson or Rand Paul!

TheRightMan on July 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM

I mean, I guess I could live with that ;)

Rush and Rand are also calling on Obama to prioritize spending – we will not default.
MeatHeadinCA on July 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM

Sorry, I don’t see any connection between the first part of that and the second part.

People keep blythely assuming that Barack Hussein Obama desperately wants to PREVENT the goal that he spent his entire life being groomed for and working toward — the fundamental transformation of the evil Imperialist American economy.

Why? What has this man ever said or done that would lead anyone to believe that?

I have to point this out, lest anyone forget. The Lady from Wasilla was the FIRST major figure out there suggesting that the debt ceiling does not have to be raised, but that the interest can be serviced thus averting U.S. default.

But of course she doesn’t know anything and we should talk about her, even though she’s been right and ahead on ALL the issues.

milemarker2020 on July 7, 2011 at 1:12 PM

Amen, brother. Amen.

Sen. Ron Johnson: We could operate under a debt ceiling budget for days or even weeks

Or, years even.

What would an actual accountant know about the debt?

tetriskid on July 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM

What newspapers does he read?

“Again, let me use the word — it’s disgusting. It’s disgusting the way this process is playing out.”

I agree completely with this assessment and it applies even more so to the GOP for their part in the secrecy.

Thank you so much, Tea Party, for putting people into office who have demonstrated that they get it.

McConnell and co. better be praying that the GOP nominate a conservative to win the White House. Otherwise, I foresee a clean-up in the aisle of the RINO leadership.

I certainly could live with a Senate Majority Leader Ron Johnson or Rand Paul!

We could operate under a debt ceiling budget

Being that we’ve been running without a budget at all for 800 days now….

Who?
phreshone on July 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM

Just the senator who helped Senator Feingold retire.

Who?
phreshone on July 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM

Someone who clearly deserves more attention.

America needs to be told the truth.

“If this administration misses one payment to a Social Security recipient, if they miss one payment to a soldier, if they miss one debt payment, that is a choice they are making. It doesn’t have to be this way if they plan for it.”

The reason that the GOP is losing so many of these arguments is that too many of them agree with the Dems or too many of them are too stupid to put forth arguments like Senator Johnson’s. The GOP should NOT be losing on this score, but they absolutely fail to get the right people in front of cameras to hammer home these points. Johnson is absolutely correct to turn this back on Obama and the Dems that the elderly and soldiers won’t get paid and that food won’t get inspected if the ceiling isn’t raised.

Establish priorities. For crying out loud, aren’t we still funding a successor group to ACORN? The list of cuts is endless.

Good luck, Mr. Johnson!

‘Secured creditors are getting dollar for dollar — that’s interest on the debt, that’s Social Security. The rest of you guys, until we get this figured out, will basically get 60 cents on the dollar. Once we go through the reorganization, once we get this figured out, you’ll probably get 98 cents on the dollar.’

Hey, Ron? Social security recipients aren’t secured creditors, they just paid a tax for 40-odd years, and believed a lie.

But of course she doesn’t know anything and we should talk about her, even though she’s been right and ahead on ALL the issues.

Wisconsin rocks.

oh, and the Packers win the Superbowl.

Good year to be a cheesehead conservative.

new to the senate I guess.

rob verdi on July 7, 2011 at 1:03 PM

Ron Johnson is an accountant and a businessman. So he actually grasps how budgets & basic math work.

Again, let me use the word — it’s disgusting. It’s disgusting the way this process is playing out.”

new to the senate I guess.

Shouldn’t we ask a lawyer? /s