I said we certainly were NOT going to get everything overnight.... This is NOTHING and unacceptable....

And McCarthy demonstrates EXACTLY why people (including me) preferred someone else for Speaker... Bankruptcy still just around the corner...

The DEBT CEILING INCREASE "DEAL" the USHouse (controlled by Republicans (but, admittedly, NOT by a whole lot, and therefore cannot lose many in the "compromise" process or we have ZERO DEAL AT ALL)) being Reported as THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!

McCarthy FAIL... again... but let's deal in Reality.... TRUMP didn't do a damn thing about this either during his 4 years as POTUS45....

Now, for you Newbies to the process, who have NO CLUE how the BASELINE BUDGETING BULLSHIT SCHEMES WORK, that means only $300Billion a year, over the NEXT TEN YEARS (which, of course, will just be ignored anyway by future Congresses). And that is almost all in SUPPOSED/PROMISED REDUCED RATES IN AMOUNT OF GROWTH versus any REAL CUTS!!!

NOW, that is coming from ME who just a few days ago told you all to "temper your expectations" (see attached email below) about what LEVERAGE we have and can/may get. That we need SOMETHING but not going to get EVERYTHING; but this doesn't (IMO) even qualify as "SOMETHING" but yet another farce gimmick, gag, JOKE, since many too stupid to understand what is going on and just get GIDDY when they hear the THREE TRILLION DOLLARS headline with no regard for ANY REAL DETAILS...

This is NOTHING, and doesn't even begin to address BALANCING THE BUDGET and eliminating Deficits let-alone addressing THE STILL GROWING DEBT...

MUST SEE (my RedState piece from 2011):
https://redstate.com/diary/jlenarddetroit/2011/08/30/baselining-n187188

----------- here's that email (below) ------

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Joseph M. Lenard (yahoo.mail)
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 04:52:06 PM EDT
Subject: Debt ceiling discussions... NOW is our only and final chance to REVERSE the CLOWARD AND PIVEN Bankrupting of West direction...

Debt ceiling discussions... NOW is our only and final chance to REVERSE the CLOWARD AND PIVEN Bankrupting of West (as happened to Soviets, but we then let them RECOVER and get up from the mat, the Left will NOT allow any such Recovery here) strategy...

First, I deal in REALITY and NOT FANTASY LAND,
there is ZERO CHANCE $pending would be cut/slashed by TRILLIONS of dollars COLD-TURKEY/OVERNIGHT to the point where Deficits will be reduced to ZERO let-alone Budget Surpluses ( and not the FAKE Clinton/Gingrich "deal" kind (do NOT get me wrong here, Gingrich was the only Republican since Reagan to get ANYTHING done and resulted in some very meaningful shift in direction, a meaningful decline in Deficits directional change, but never, ever, was going to STOP the continuing Debt inflation)) so-as there would be NO MORE DEBT INCREASING and therefore NO NEED FOR A DEBT CEILING INCREASE. Period!!!

I don't give a shit who you THINK could have been Elected of late (short of a complete 90% cleaning of USHouse and USSenate, never happens, never gonna happen) that would have changed that.

THAT IS THE REALITY, if you cannot DEAL IN THAT then don't bother reading further!!

HOWEVER, there are ENOUGH (just barely, as evidenced by the Speaker fight earlier in the year, and yes I'll get to that again in a minute) to FINALLY USE SOME REAL LEVERAGE TO DEMAND/FORCE some REAL AND SPECIFIC concessions THIS TIME as part of the Debt Ceiling Increase Bill - THAT AGAIN THOSE DEALING IN REALITY ALL KNOW IS GOING TO PASS!!!

Now, I'm not going to go into specifics here, other than to refer back to a RedState piece of mine from/in 2008: https://redstate.com/diary/jlenarddetroit/2008/10/30/contract-with-america-part-two-n186968 , just to REFER AGAIN to the point that we FINALLY SEE A BIT OF BACKBONE FROM SOME WITHIN THE GOP as witnessed by the Speaker fight ---- and OTHERS in the GOP hopefully LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THAT about "LEVERAGE" and will finally f** use what we have to move that Overton-Window FINALLY a bit back to the Right from the never ending march Left-ward.

more/related:
https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/01/its-called-leverage-and-about-damn-time-real-conservatives-use-it-over-the-quickearly-sellouts-cinosrinos-yet-again-3651476.html (share with the aka/shortcut: https://tinyurl.com/OvertonWindowLeverage )

also related from B4IN a piece of mine written back in 2018:
https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2018/08/conservatives-teaparty-activists-whenwhere-are-you-willing-to-stand-and-fight-3394330.html

Plus https://tinyurl.com/RecruitConservatives
We MUST get more REAL CONSERVATIVES (not CINOs) ELECTED!!!!
And YOU must DO MORE if that is EVER going to happen!!!!

https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/?s=Joseph+M+Lenard
https://tinyurl.com/JLDArticles (at BIN)

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