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By Victor Davis Hanson
During the recent debt crisis, President Obama talked about the need for bipartisan compromise and, as in the past, urged civility. Giving ground and engaging in polite discourse, of course, can be noble aims. But, like most one-eyed-jack politicians, Obama has rarely embraced the admirable qualities he advocates — a fact increasingly evident to a skeptical public.
So spare us any more of the bottled piety, Mr. President. Instead, just make the argument to the public that borrowing $4 billion a day is still necessary and sustainable — and explain how it came to be that this post-recession recovery on your watch is the weakest since World War II.
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The Institute for Justice has had remarkable success in lawsuits, breaking many economic barriers, such as those against hair braiding in Arizona, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio and California and taxi restrictions in Denver, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.

Arbitrary licensing and permitting laws foreclose many occupations that are ideally suited to people of modest means, particularly minorities. Here’s my bet: Ask any liberal politician, from the president and the Congressional Black Caucus to civil rights organizations and black local politicians, whether he’d take up the fight to eliminate these barriers to upward mobility. You’ll get answers, but they won’t be a simple yes. The reason is the ins contribute to their political campaigns and the outs don’t.Walter Williams
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There’s a lot of testosterone in the Republican Party. Too bad all of it’s Sarah Palin’s.

Like the new wise guys on the street, tea party Republicans should continue to ACT LIKE A MAN! Or at least a Palin woman!Dave Weinbaum
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By John Stossel
The political class predicted “disaster” if Congress didn’t raise its debt limit.

I think that was a scam to get more money. See, the poor politicians don’t have enough, and they need to borrow more. We taxpayers are cheap. This year we’ll give them only $2.2 trillion. They want to spend $3.8 trillion.

The president said if he didn’t get more money, Social Security checks wouldn’t go out. Why not?

With $2 trillion, they can pay Social Security, Medicare, the interest on the debt and still have billions left. It’s billions more than the government spent when President George W. Bush took office. What’s the problem?

The problem is that Republicans and Democrats under Bush and President Obama doubled spending. Now, Obama wants more taxes.

Taxes shouldn’t be the answer when spending is the problem.

I wasn’t worried that Congress would fail to raise the debt ceiling. But I am worried that Congress will keep spending.
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Regarding recent history: Panic-mongers warned, “Raise the ceiling lest the stock market experience a TARP convulsion.” Yes, the market declined almost 778 points when the House rejected the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But who remembered that after TARP was quickly enacted, in the next five months the market lost an additional 3,800 points? George Will
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“Assuming the $30 million-a-day figure in lost revenues is correct, as of Tuesday the government was out $330 million. According to the Associated Press, the entire annual budget for the program for rural air services is around $200 million.

So here’s where it stands now: Senate Democrats are blocking the House-passed FAA extension because it includes the cuts for rural air service; Senate Republicans are blocking the Senate Democrats’ extension because it restores the cuts.

This stuff would actually be funny if it weren’t costing us badly needed tax revenues and delaying badly needed airport improvements. As baseball’s Casey Stengel once said in a different contest: ‘Can’t anybody here play this game?'”Dale McFeatters

That’s why the tea party. The Republicans are dysfunctional. They are anticonstitutional. They want to throw granny under the bus rather than pay her what they owe her. They want the FAA, but they don’t want equal service. I really don’t think the Democrats could get a single vote, let alone have such a large registration advantage, if the Republicans were who they say they are.

The Republicans have never attempted to restore the Constitution while in control of Congress and the WhiteHouse. They’re just as big on earmarks and pork. And when they are forced to pee or get off the pot, they sell the White House. George H. W. Bush didn’t exactly go all out against Clinton. There were Republicans who could have beaten Clinton, but the Republicans nominated Dole. Not that we weren’t better off with Clinton than with a commie Republican president. At least it kept up the war between the parties. Otherwise the commie Republican president might have pulled off a real coup for liberals. And McCain? Well, you see what I’m talking about.

Do I need to go through this again? We the People are not members of the parties. The politicians own them. We the Stupid keep sending money to the party and they are shrewd enough to use it to get their own kind nominated. Don’t send them money. Don’t look to see who they endorse. Pick your own candidate and send your hard earned bucks to somebody who recognizes what they are worth to you.
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By Paul Greenberg
When your credit card maxes out, why sweat and fret? Just extend your credit limit. Or apply for another card and start all over again. It’s the American Way, or at least it’s the way we got into this mess in the first place. No fuss, no muss, and it’s so much more convenient than having to cut back on expenses, on all those little extras that became necessities a long time ago.

There’s no need to change your spending habits, just your credit limit. And … Voila! All your problems disappear. (“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!” –J. Wellington Wimpy, sage financier and general scam artist of the old Popeye cartoons, whose voice really should have been that of the immortal W.C. Fields cadging another drink.)
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Boner and McCongenial have saved the dozen or more unconstitutional gun laws and hundred if not thousands of regulations. They saved hundreds of unconstitutional programs. They didn’t save the country. They didn’t save you and me.

They didn’t make a compromise(see dictionary), They compromised the Constitution and We the People. Like thousands of times before. When will We the People learn that it is not about restoring the Constitution and the economy? Under the Republicans nothing is ever restored. Sometimes the economy gets better, but it is not permanently restored. That which has been given away is gone forever. The next compromise will take a little more. It’s going fast. We the People still haven’t read Infringement. We didn’t gain anything we just lost a little less. If we had to lose, we should have lost instead of giving away the farm.
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What we need is people who say “You can have my Constitution when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers”.
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