by W. James Antle, III
It's getting ugly on Capitol Hill, folks. This week, congressional Republicans have gone from holding the president and their leadership's feet to the fire to becoming a circular firing squad.
Conservatives were in full revolt against House Speaker John Boehner's two-step plan to raise the debt ceiling by the August 2 deadline after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found his accompanying spending cuts wanting. Perhaps it was payback from the last crisis, when GOP congressmen were stampeded into voting for a deal that would avoid a government shutdown, only to learn that it cut just $352 million from the current year's deficit.
Bamboozled time and again by Democratic presidents and their own leadership, many rank-and-file conservatives just don't believe fiscal discipline that must be maintained by future Congresses will ever materialize. They are unwilling to raise either taxes or the federal debt limit in exchange for phantom spending cuts.
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I encourage your readers to familiarize themselves with the Mack-Penny Plan to reduce the deficit and to advise their representatives to support it.
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