Glenn Beck: Raising the debt ceiling is the beginning of the end for Republicans

Glenn Beck tells D.C. politicos to Cowboy up on the debt ceiling
What this means is the Federal Government would have to stop borrowing and could possibly default on its monetary obligations if Congress fails to increase the ceiling before the limit is reached.  Some Democrats want to lie and scare the voters that the Republicans in the new Congress will seek to block an increase in the Debt Ceiling unless a plan is in place to significantly reduce federal spending and unfunded government liabilities on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Me...

White House Defends Obamas Senate Vote against Raising Debt Ceiling But Warns of Catastrophe If GOP Doesnt Raise Debt Ceiling
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Fred Lucas President Barack Obama is saluted as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, from Vacation in Hawaii. Col. Lee DePalo, commander of the 11th Wing, is at left. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Obama Administration is warning of catastrophic consequences if Congress does not increase the Debt ceiling, the legal limit on how much the Federal Government can borrow, but Obama held a different view on th...

Early Morning Swim: Republicans Playing Chicken with Debt Ceiling, Reports Chris Hayes on MSNBC
Batshit. Tea Party champion Sen. Jim DeMint says he’s ready for a “showdown” with President Obama over raising the government Debt ceiling. DeMint’s threat is setting up a high-stakes game of chicken on Capitol Hill with Republicans demanding stark Spending Cuts before they consider raising the Debt Limit and Democrats warning that a failure to do so would trash the country’s Credit Rating and risk a government shutdown. “This needs to be a big showdown,R...

Glenn Beck And Judge Napolitano: Raising Debt Ceiling Is Beginning Of The End Of The Republicans
Glenn Beck appeared on Judge Napolitano ’s show Freedom Watch and they agreed that if the Debt ceiling is raised then no lessons have been learned by the big spending Congress. Despite the warning of Austan Goolsbee , chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, that not raising the ceiling would be “catastrophic” and “insanity,” both Beck and Napolitano seemed willing to accept such an “insane catastrophe” presumably because that’s th...

House passes new rules package
The House wrapped up the first day of the 112th Congress on Wednesday by approving a new rules package that will enact some significant changes to matters ranging from the Debt ceiling to members' Voting Rights. The new rules passed on a party-line vote, with 240 Republicans voting in favor and 191 Democrats opposed. Democrats tried earlier Wednesday to block the package. Earlier Wednesday, the House rejected a resolution by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) that would have directed a committ...

Video of Juan Williams: debt ceiling a "come to Jesus moment"
The Bible does in fact reference finances a huge number of times, more than many other topics. That said, what is the point of a Debt ceiling when it continually gets raised? Funny that Williams wasn't so driven about the nations Debt problem the last 4 years when Pelosi racked up more the $5 Trillion of it. An additional silver lining to William's statement? A liberal that can use the name of Jesus. So there's that. ...

A Feature, Not a Bug!
To follow up on what Jamelle says below, I think it would be an excellent idea for Barack Obama to start praising Conservatives, precisely because it would alienate them from their fellows. There's little point in giving a shout-out to those who are actually working with him in good faith. When they inevitably get purged from the movement for winning the praise of a man that many conservatives believe is intentionally trying to destroy America, the right will merely get a bit more conservative, ...

New GOP member doesn't "know" what will happen if debt ceiling isn't raised
Speaking of clueless Republicans in the House that Teabaggers built, here's part of the new brain trust entering office today: Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC). Yesterday, newly-elected Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) appeared on Fox Business to talk about his own intention to vote against raising the Debt ceiling. The host asked Muvlaney if he was willing to “risk the possibility of a default on our debt.” Mulvaney responded that he has “no difficulty in” voting against raising the ...

Obama Flip Flops on Debt Ceiling
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended then-Senator Barack Obama's 2006 vote against raising the Debt ceiling on Wednesday - even as he urged current members of Congress not to "play politics" with the issue. Upon casting a vote against raising the Debt ceiling in 2006, Mr. Obama said, in part: "America has a Debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's Debt Limit." Gibbs said at his daily briefing We...

Baghdad Bob: Senator Obama Only Voted Against Raising Debt Ceiling in 2006 Because He Knew It Would Pass Anyway
Bobby’s going out with a bang. (ABC News)- On Sunday, President Obama’s top economic adviser, Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee, cautioned members of Congress not to “play chicken” by voting against raising the $14.3 Trillion Debt ceiling - despite the fact that as a senator in 2006, President Obama voted that way. “I don’t see why anybody’s talking about playing chicken with the Debt ceiling,” Goolsbee told me on ABC Ne...

DANIEL FOSTER: Why the Republicans Will Get a Lot in Exchange for Raising the Debt Ceiling.
DANIEL FOSTER: Why the Republicans Will Get a Lot in Exchange for Raising the Debt Ceiling. ...

David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness
"When you are in Washington, remember what the voters back home want -- less government and more freedom." -- Jim DeMint, welcoming Tea-Party-backed victors in the 2010 Midterm Elections This is no ordinary day in American politics. This is the day power officially shifted in the House of Representatives from Nancy Pelosi's Democrats to John Boehner's Republicans. This is the day the inmates retook the asylum. For Progressives, this shift in power necessitates an equivalent shift in strategy. ...

Jewish group campaigns to keep Glenn Beck off NY radio
On the heels of yesterday’s news that Glenn Beck was being dropped by his New York Radio Station, Jewish Funds for Justice, a group that has sparred with Beck in the past, is launching a campaign to keep him out of that market for good. From their release: Simon Greer, president and CEO of Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), applauded WOR’s decision to remove Mr. Beck from its programming. WOR is one of the nation’s leading conservative Talk Radio stations. Following WOR’s...

Glenn Beck Pulls A Jon Stewart, Weaves Star Wars Analogy To Explain Radical Leftists Evil Plot
And here I thought the prequels had killed off the Star Wars franchise. I guess someone forgot to tell the cable TV hosts because we’ve been writing more Star Wars-related posts this week than the guys and gals over at Geekosystem. Just two days after Jon Stewart spent a few minutes explaining how Barack Obama’s presidency follows the path of Luke Skywalker, Glenn Beck took time out to explain how progressive radicals are like Darth Vader using the dark side of the force. Clearly Sta...

Tonight on Fox: 9/11 Truther Hosts for Glenn Beck
That’s right, standing in once again tonight for Glenn Beck on Fox News is 9/11 Truther Andrew Napolitano. ...

Glenn Beck Canceled in New York
Boo-freaking-hoo. Glenn Beck may be one of the Hottest Talk Show hosts in the country, but he apparently left New York's WOR cold. WOR (710 AM), one of the city's two biggest talk Radio Stations, said this morning it is dropping Beck's syndicated show as of Jan. 17 and replacing him with a familiar New York name: Mike Gallagher. "The reason is Ratings," said WOR program director Scott Lakefield. "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting what we wanted." It's not a shocker that New Yo...

Obama Voted Against Raising the Debt Ceiling, But He Didn't Really Mean It
Then-Sen. Obama used the vote “to make a point about needing to get serious about fiscal discipline….His vote was not necessarily needed on that.” More here....

Gibbs defends Obama 2006 vote against raising debt ceiling
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today defended a 2006 vote by then-senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) against raising the nation’s Debt ceiling. The vote to raise the Debt ceiling will be a major battle next year because Tea Party-backed Conservatives have vowed to let the government default on its debts rather than authorize a raising of the $14.3 Trillion limit. Republican leadership is expected to use the situation to force deep Spending Cuts to the 2012 Budget. White House economic ...

Congressman Who Intends Vote Against Raising Debt Ceiling Doesnt Know What That Would Mean
Newly-elected Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina doesn’t want to raise the Debt ceiling, but when asked on Fox Business what that would mean his answer: “I don’t know.” “What do you think would happen if the Debt ceiling wasn’t raised?” he was asked. Well, I don’t know. I’ve asked that question, I’ve asked that question a lot. I’ve heard Goolsbee on Sunday say it’d be catastrophic, I’ve heard others say that. I’ve a...

Reid on Raising Debt Ceiling in '06: Weakens Country, Hurts Economy
“If my Republican friends believe that increasing our Debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 Trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it. They should explain why they think more Debt is good for The Economy. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more......

Flashback 2006: Dingy Reid Says Raising Debt Ceiling Will Weaken Country, Hurt The Economy
“If my Republican friends believe that increasing our Debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 Trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it. They should explain why they think more Debt is good for The Economy.” Click here to cancel reply....

As A Senator President Obama Voted Against Raising the Debt Ceiling, Called it Leadership Failure
My, oh my, how things change. In 2006 President Obama, who at the time was a First Term US Senator with ambitions, voted against raising the Debt ceiling. He said: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s Debt Limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … I...

The new format at WPHT sends Conservatives into a tizzy
Late last year, "1210: The Big Talker" a/k/a WPHT 1210 AM announced that they'd be doing a slight format change in the Talk Radio they present to Philadelphia and South Jersey. Just like a light switch, their format changed on New Year's Day and the station dropped Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in favor of local guys Michael Smerconish and Dom Giordano. The problem is that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are now, at this time of printing, no longer on the air in the Philadelphia market. This is the fo...

Chris Hayes: White House Needs to Call Republicans' Bluff on Debt Ceiling
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How Will John Boehner Run the House?
Republicans took control of the House and their leader, John A. Boehner took the Speaker's gavel Wednesday, promising Conservatives they would stay true to their roots, cut spending and attempt to shrink the size of government. For Boehner that means he will try to be the same man with the same goals, but with a brand new title. More Video ...