Had I the power, I would do the following:

1) No Debt Ceiling Increase unless Obama agreed to immediate serious spending cuts…

2) I would agree ONLY to a $1 Trillion debt ceiling level increase – which would not even last 1 year under Obama’s current deficit-spending rate – during which time this Administration would have to come up with & PASS a BUDGET, something it has not done in 4 years (even though it is REQUIRED BY LAW)! If no Budget is passed by the time the new $1 Trillion Debt Ceiling Increase is reached, there will not be another increase until the administration DOES pass a budget!
– A nation moving forward without a budget to guide their actions is like Christopher Columbus setting sail without any way / plan to navigate – you end up drifting / wandering aimlessly.

3) If Obama/Liberals don’t like it I would let the government SHUT DOWN. Democrats will try to scare people by telling them their SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc will stop with a govt shutdown but that is NOT TRUE. What is true is that our elected officials won’t get paid & the govt can’t waste hudreds of billions of dollars passing pork & wasting time in Congress the way Harry Reid did yesterday – by stopping Senate business to throw partisan insults at Boehner rather than work on the ‘fiscal cliff’ issue. If Reid wants to engage in such UNACCEPTABLE behavior then he should be forced to do it without pay! Guys like this POS gewt paid WAY TOO MUCH & receive WAY TOO MANY TAX-PAYER FUNDED BENEFITS for engaging in self/party-serving behavior instead of the NATION’S business & should be PUNISHED for it.
– A Govt shutdown would not be a bad thing – it would be a BLESSING!

House controls payments last time I checked. Close the government until they start acting responsibly or stop paying for certain departments we can do without.

riddick on December 27, 2012 at 2:14 AM

The problem is … no one in GOP leadership in the House has the balls to do that.

That’s it in a nutshell brah.

http://wh.gov/Q71X

This is a petition to the White House calling for the immediate resignation of everyone in Congress and the President.

We have zero leadership in Washington. There are no adults left.

Let us send a message that we need a clean slate, a fresh start, with mature and competant leaders who will actually ACT and do things for the welfare of the Nation, not for the short-term political gains for their party.

Enough is enough.

Oh, that’s right, you haven’t passed on in 4 years.

Sweet. So we get to tell Obama “give us what we want, or you can enjoy having a ballanced budget for the next two year”?

Time to not give Obama anything.

As Liberals say, ‘Never allow a crisis go to waste’!

Republicans should start focusing public comments on how we Americans are going to bounce back from this disaster of an economic policy, and how jobs can be created in droves by electing Republicans. Every single TV interview should start and end with references to the Democrat recession, the ObamaCare doctor shortages and the crazy regulations that have led to the lowest rate of new business starts in thirty years. The Democrat economy should be hung around their necks at every opportunity. AP’ s approach is nutty, because it leads to sharing the responsibility: the absent President and the crazy Democrats in Congress brought us here and the voters will make them pay.

Pass whatever Obama wants and let him and the Democrats own the double-dip recession.

muckdog on December 26, 2012 at 8:32 PM

Stop this insanity! NOW!

Hussein wants UNLIMITED Debt Ceiling. NO DEBT CEILING.

Stop sniffing whatever you are sniffing.

We’re going over the so called cliff one way or another, the only question is we do it slower or not. Taxes are going up, no matter what, via HusseinCare and other means. Economy is going to be killed via EPA and other new business laws. Spending IS NOT going down, no matter what. Its only a matter of time now. Even “sequestration” is nothing but paper numbers, who the hell cuts $200 Billion per year in spending while deficit runs in the $1.5 TRILLION range?

Are you guys as bad with numbers as Paul Ryan is, our math genius in the House?

NO RAISE IN DEBT CEILING! Spending cuts in the $1 TRILLION range NEXT YEAR and more thereafter. The ONLY way out. Close Ed Dept, EPA and Energy, for starters, they do nothing but destroy the minds of our kids and kill jobs. Or cut them to bare minimum if need be, lay off 80% right there. Sell those buildings or stop paying leases. TSA should be chucked as well, its a huge waste that does nothing. All other Fed departments should be cut across the board 10-20% next year and attrition afterwards until salaries match private sector (freeze pay and raises), this saves not only in the immediate future, but long term as well in benefits owed. No foreign aid to our enemies ($20B per year right there?). Stop ALL payments to UN and tell them they have 2 years to get the hell out of USA soil. We can pay as much as, say, Saudi Arabia, once they move and that about settles it. Pull our forces from muslim countries, TOMORROW. $100 BILLION in that alone?

You don’t need a calculator for this. Should be an easy $1 TRILLION right there without even trying.

House controls payments last time I checked. Close the government until they start acting responsibly or stop paying for certain departments we can do without. And stop paying for HusseinCare implementation, we cannot afford to. That in itself is BILLIONS next year.

Going over the cliff = republicans be blamed/ never hold a majority at least of any substantial numbers… for a long time.
You all have already seen the numbers… and it will get much worse. Besides the more informed like those of us here… who do you think knows anything besides what CNN and such say on TV? Sure, say that the republicans can turn the tide by getting on and talking about it, look at how well that went down for Mittens/Ryan.

Its going to take a long time and a lot of work to get things turned around… doing it all at once will NOT help things along in fact most likely just sway it the other way ….

IMO, this battle is long lost, but not the war. That takes time to win.

Boehner could wait until after the 1st and put Obama’s 400k cutoff up for a vote and see how many Dems vote against it. Then put up a permanent AMT and Medicare fix and see how many dems vote against it. If the Dems kill it while most GOP are for it, put the blame where it belongs.

kick the can down the road until the US debt implodes the country. We just have to hope that it’s not during our generation.

muckdog on December 26, 2012 at 8:32 PM

Unless your generation is “those over 85 years old and whose health is failing” …

… it WILL be during your generation.

Meanwhile, over 98% of workers will avoid a tax hike.

kick the can down the road until the US debt implodes the country. We just have to hope that it’s not during our generation.

U.S. to hit debt ceiling on Monday, says Geithner

Good! If we are going over the cliff, let’s do it in full measure.

I hope that Harry washed those hands. There is no telling where they have been.

onlineanalyst on December 26, 2012 at 6:54 PM

On the floor in front of Bark.

Think Obama can find 30 Republicans willing to vote “yes”

Since Allen West lost, that’s one less.