Yea, Let's come together and solve this...but Obie says it's MY WAY or the HIGHWAY. So much for working with a power mad dictator.

Game on. Obama is demanding a tax increase or over the fiscal cliff we all go.

A must read! He is so right about forcing Obama to make the difficult choices..He won't lead, he's not a leader...show the half of our country that we still do have a say in this..and we will not cave in to him!

We got a better chance of Alice in Wonderland becoming a reality before anything in this article does. Face it. Rebublicans do what rebublicans do. The bubble things up. Usually playing nice. And they will continue until a real leader (Reagan who forced socialist to back down) emerge.

A very good read. But, I don't think the GOP lawmakers(most of them) will read and abide by them. It's gonna be a very long and hellish 4 years.

Now is the time....fight him...destroy him...march... protest...

Who killed my Seal...who watched our men raped and murdered?

We need to send this to every one of our congress people! Sums up my thoughts in a nut shell!

While I second Eric's emotions, it won't work. There is no way to stop what is coming. Read some of the other threads today. It's already happening. The Democrats only want political cover. Boehner and the party elites are stupid enough to give it to them. Any attempts by the House to force NerØbama to do anything will simply be ignored. He has his Chicago ways. Witness how he handled caps on carbon emissions and work requirements for welfare. The strategy simply won't work. The 'least bad' solution is to step aside, vote "present" and let the Dems take full responsibility for the failure that is sure to follow. Then be available to pick up the pieces. It doesn't start in 2014; it starts now.

Finally someone who gets it.
There is no constitutional requirement that a house representative has to be the speaker, it is just anybody that gets 50% plus 1 of the votes decided by the house representatives.
Eric Gulob for Speaker of the House!

Winner FTA: Don't send a liberal to do an adult's job.

I can't disagree with the advice.

But it is advice for a textbook Washington where the House has various powers, the Senate others, the President operates the government, and the courts sometimes slap their wrists.

IOW, a nice place where good is intended. Where from time to time the voters will toss control to the other party. A fantasy. A theme park.

Washington is not that place. It is much bigger and much, much more expensive than Disneyland. It grows and devours.

This is a center-right nation...

Is it? I'm not so sure any more. My own daughter, who's smart as a whip, says she's equally repelled by far-left and far-right. But when making her assessment, she seems happy to overlook that number - $16 trillion. Maybe when she has a few more years of balancing her own budget, she'll at least understand the wisdom of conservative FISCAL policy.

I go with #8, elections have consequences, get out of the way and let the liberals hang themselves with their own rope.

I think the author forgets who runs the House. The spineless Members in the House and Senate will fold on tax hikes. This will cause the Republican Party to disintegrate, as it should. It is time to rebuild a coalition to oppose socialism, and it isn't going to happen inside the current GOP. Strict adherence to social conservative priorities has resulted in most younger voters keeping their distance from Republicans.

I am hoping for something more along strict fiscal conservative lines -- like the Tea Party movement.

The Senate can't pass bills unless the House does also.

Until Atlas Shrugs, we have only one solution:

Abide by Obama's principal that overspending be "paid for" [by the generation that incurs it].

Refuse to increase the Debt Ceiling.

Leave Obama and his Democrat Party to rely exclusively on the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply to cover ALL overspending.

As ignorant and apathetic voters scramble to cope with inflation-diminished buying power that shrinks as fast as deficits accumulate, they will convert to conservative values or succumb to Democrat plantation masters who will starve them like North Koreans.

Then watch hyperinflation kick in as lenders demand floating interest rates on government debt to cover losses from the plummeting value of the dollar [that causes "necessarily skyrocketing" prices for everything as Obama advocated for electricity].

Within 12 months, the public reaction will make the founding of America look like a walk in the park.

Things may move even faster if doctors withdraw from practicing, layoffs multiply as nonessential consumer demand implodes, and half of our electricity supply ends as coal-fired electric generation shuts down, eliminating our capacity to support consumer, household and business electronics.

Just sayin.

#16, your scenario makes good sense on paper, but at every point along the way the the administration will invent a scapegoat, and the lapdog MSM will drive home the lie to an ignorant and confused public.

Somebody needs to blow this up and wallpaper Boehner's office with it.

Right on, right on...

Bambi has no:
work ethic
ability to work with others
intelligence
integrity in dealing with people

He is a failure and so is the co-potus, ValJar.

How can anyone make Barry lead when he´s already going on trips to the far east? Then comes Thanksgiving, X-Mas, and New Years (all vacation time). Barry will simply let the tax cuts expire on Dec 31st so he can tax the maximum amount of money for fancy dancy ongoing new programs like bailing out union pensions or even CA now that they´ve actually gone over the cliff. After all, CA needs quid pro for all those delegate votes.