NO on the Debt Deal

King Pyrrhus, after defeating the Romans, is said to have declared “one more such victory and we shall be undone.”

Legislation to allow President Obama to continue to borrow against the future ability of our children and grandchildren to pay taxes may be such a Pyrrhic victory.  Is guaranteed new debt today with one-tenth the amount of cuts tomorrow a victory for fiscal discipline?  Is leaving Obamacare in place fiscally responsible?  What have we won when the prize is looming tax increases in eighteen months?

Conservatives have already been called terrorists by our vice president – it is not the respect of the other side we have won.  They get to keep spending and we get to hope for spending cuts and pray that tax increases do not happen.

It is a sad, disturbing state of affairs when this embarrassment of a deal is rationally called a victory. I would have voted  “no.” I think the immediate consequences that might befall the economy are less than those consequences of continuing on even with the thin patina of responsibility this bill affords.

The solution is not to shoot our own.  This is a clash of philosophies decades in the making.  Will we become wards of a Federal Government that is demonstrably incompetent at almost everything it does, or will we be free under a limited Federalist system.  Two thirds of the Federal Government, it’s entire salaried bureaucracy, the mainstream media, the academy and a staggering number of Americans are arrayed against those of us who believe our path cannot be sustained, nor is it moral.

The answer is electing more real conservatives to the House and Senate, and to have a real conservative in the White House.  So long as Harry Reid is the Senate Majority Leader and Barack Obama is President, this unsightly legislation is what will have to pass as a victory.

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