Bye Bye Boehner (#RINOS)

John Boehner, the ineffective, compliant collaborator with all things Obama, will resign from Congress and the Speakership of the House, at the end of October.

It's about time.  Mitch McConnell should be next.  Pink slips for pinkos.  I like it.

I wrote about the Boehner problem almost two years ago, and nothing has changed since then.

Read it here.

John Boehner's a Jerk

John Boehner:  "I'm Collaborating As Fast As I Can"

This past week House Speaker John Boehner attacked the conservative wing of the Republican Party -- the "Tea Party" -- saying that "they lack all credibility."  Boehner was immediately praised to the skies by various Democrat and liberal spokesmen.  Dick Morris said that "Boehner Eats His Young" by castigating the very people responsible for his being a Congressman in the first place.

The truth is, John Boehner is to the GOP what the Vichy Government was to France in the 1940's.  He is a collaborator.  He likes the limelight, the praise from major media.  He wants to be seen as "responsible," as mischaracterized by the mainstream (Democrat) media, for the GOP's slow surrender to liberalism.

I would hope that we can kick Boehner's butt out ASAP.  I don't really care if there is a huge internecine fight for the "soul" of the GOP.  With our Vichy Republicans, we continue to lose our freedoms, our prosperity, our culture. Our nation continues its downward trend with increasing debt and decreasing credibility in a hostile world.  Supporting ideological wimps like Boehner accomplishes nothing.

If the Tea Party cannot take control of the Republican Party, then it is time to create a Third Party that advances conservative goals and candidates.  We may continue to lose the country, but I'd rather go down fighting than to submit to the slow death the GOP establishment seems to embrace.

Big Spenders Always Win, or So It Seems; Tea Party Steamed Over Budget Deal

Obama's Budget

I have been trying to get a handle on the big budget fight between Republicans and Democrats.  What I want to see is actual numbers, but there is precious little explanation on the web.  That's because numbers cause eyes to glaze over and remind readers of doing math homework in the 10th grade; it wasn't fun then and it isn't fun now.  However, as an accountant I want to see the numbers and draw my own conclusions.  Bear with me if you can stand it.  I use numbers from the 2011 budget as described at this link.

It appears that the shut down of the federal government was averted by a budget compromise engineered by Republican John Boehner, Speaker of the House.   The Democrats want to spend $3.819 trillion in 2011, adding $1.645 trillion to the national debt.  Put another way, they want to spend $1.645 trillion more than they take in from tax and other revenues.  Boehner's compromise would cut $39 billion from the planned expenditures, a percentage so small that it is barely detectable.

The Republican proposed cuts would reduce the 2011 debt increase by only 2.37%, or 2 cents for every dollar added to the debt.  These same cuts would reduce total 2011 expenditures of $3.819 trillion by only 1.02%, or a single penny for every dollar spent.  That's chump change and hardly a "victory" over Democrat fiscal malfeasance.

When you consider the total national debt of $15.476 trillion (forecast for the end of 2011), the budget reduction amounts to only 0.25% of the total national debt, or two one-thousandths of each penny of debt.

WHOOPEEE!

Anybody who thinks this is a Republican victory is delusional.  After promising to cut a paltry $100 billion (as a "serious first step"), the GOP settled for cutting only $39 billion.  Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review Online explains it further here.  He says:

So now they’ve stopped short, significantly short, of that purportedly serious step, and the reaction is, “We won!” You’ve got to be kidding me. The only thing Boehner won is future assurance that GOP leadership can safely promise the moon but then settle for crumbs because their rah-rah corner will spin any paltry accomplishment, no matter how empty it shows the promise to have been, as a tremendous victory.

Some others also "get it," namely Rand Paul and Michelle Bachmann.  Others are content, as usual, with a superficial "win."  Ooooh, we made them cut 2/1000 of each penny!  That's got to hurt!

The GOP is perpetually weak and irresolute.  We need more radical solutions to stop the fiscal insanity of the Democratic Party.  I am not sure what those solutions are, but as of right now, I am thinking of voting for Ron Paul or Rand Paul if either runs.  I will not waste my vote on a Huckabee or a Romney or other establishment Republican.

Just for the record, I have long been critical of Ron Paul and previously wouldn't have voted for him if he were running against Satan.  Now I am beginning to realize that he is a hell of a lot better choice.  We've tried Satan and he just hasn't worked out.