Why the whole fight over the debt ceiling was a waste of time and doesn’t really matter. What McCarthy did and how Republicans voted was irrelevant in the long run.
Mark Levin Explains Why the Debt Ceiling Negotiations Didn’t Matter: The System Is Broken
On Life, Liberty, and Levin on Sunday, Mark Levin used his opening monologue to reveal some sobering truths about the coverage of the debt ceiling negotiations by the legacy media. He cited reports by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the trustees of the Social Security system that show that federal spending has gone completely insane. Levin calls it frightening. Notably, Levin points out that all the reports he cited came from the Executive Branch, controlled by the Biden administration. He openly questions whether anyone in Congress bothered to read the reports, never mind the upper echelons of the Biden administration, and concludes our federal government has become irrevocably broken.
Levin said:Because our Constitution can save us. We have all these conservatives in the House and the Senate that are upset at what’s taking place. Not one of them gets up and talks about Article V. Why is that? They know, I know, you know. If you didn’t know before, now you know. We are on a horrendous path, and no bill passed by Congress is going to fix it. I’m all for taking as many conservative principles and applying them as possible. But we have a structural problem. It didn’t happen yesterday. It’s happened over a hundred years. Our Constitution gives us a way out. And if the state legislatures, the state representatives, the state senators would understand their power… they actually have more power than the Congress and the president put together… there are now twenty state legislatures that have adopted a resolution for a convention. NOT a constitutional convention. A convention of states. A meeting of state delegates. You still need 34 states to ask for it. You still need 38 states to ratify it. So it’s not easy. But I have to ask myself, where are my fellow conservatives in the House and in the Senate? Where are the conservatives running for president? If you want to save the country, at least fiscally, this is what you have to do!
Gettin’ quite the storm here at the Dome. Glad I went out and pulled a few ‘maters before it started to get really dark and loud outside.
George Washington bridge. Just up the road from Texpat.
A report that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has taken a plea deal to testify against ex-President Donald Trump is nothing more than “bull****,” according to his attorney George Terwilliger.
– Newsweek
https://youtu.be/0_P3uCyngkk
Rest in peace Texmo.
Say hey to Katfish for me.
It was at the parish church that Hammie attended locally as a young ‘un. There was family there (we talked to his sister), but there was such a clamoring for her attention that I’m sure she forgot all about those strangers who stalked her as soon as the priest ended the mass. We only had a few hours between finding… Read more »
#59 Re Hammy’s funeral I probably live closer to the location of that ceremony (several years ago now) than any other Hamboner did, but the word came so late that I would be driving in the dark to a location I had never been to before. I simply chickened out. And now I am stunned that Shannon didn’t get the… Read more »
Oh, well.
As my my mind/memory relentlessly deteriorates, it’s quite possible that I don’t remember that a memorial service was held for Hammie locally.
It was a difficult time. And no doubt I was in the middle of some personal crisis at the time.
It all runs together these days.
#44
TexMo, it was a pleasure to have you as a blog friend for many years, and we all mourn your loss from our group. Condolences to your family and all your other friends.
I am stunned. I had no idea.
was there Tipton family there?
what church?
you have got to be kidding me.
We got wind of it the day it was happening. The three of us attending – Texmo, Bones, and myself – had to move fast. It wasn’t a funeral as such, but a mass as a memorial service. We tried to wrangle the keys to old Hammie land after it was over, but for nought. I gather that by the… Read more »
50 Bones
I got to share a drink with him in the parking lot just before Hamous’ funeral.
What?
There was a Mark Tipton funeral to attend?
When? Where?
I drove by our Montrose property (the 11 unit) that we sold last year. We had a few tenants call us after we sold, telling us how they missed us. It seems the new management sucks. We had contracted with a trash collection company to drag out the three trash cans each week and empty them. The area where they… Read more »
I just read a Dr. Malone column. Wow.
Just. Wow.
Gonna turn it into a thread here soon.
Heads. Roll. They should.
I just watched two of your guy’s freeze drying videos. I have so much to learn. I am excited about prepping the avocado. Have to work fast, though, in that fifteen minute time frame between “ripe” and “oh crap I missed it”.
#53 Tedtam – Amen ♥♥♥
I got to share a drink with him in the parking lot just before Hamous’ funeral.
He was really a good guy.
He still is. Just being a good guy in another room.
May TexMo’s memory be a blessing to all whoever knew him.
God Bless.
I’ll agree with that statement.
R.I.P. Texmo and Godspeed home.
I keep thinking of what Tedtam said that TexMo said, “I’m not going to make my 50th birthday”. Let that sink in. 🙁
I’m sitting in the shade in my backyard and my puppy Sarah is really happy to not be in the laundry room.
RIP TexMo.
I got to share a drink with him in the parking lot just before Hamous’ funeral.
He was really a good guy.
#41 Tedtam – WHEEEEEEE Dawgies!!!!!! Now we can share tips and tricks and… and… bore the guys to tears 😉 We got a 5 doz case of eggs yesterday to freeze dry – but are waiting for the divider trays we ordered to come in, so that I can do raw individual eggs… The taters is did yesterday that finished… Read more »
I told Mrs. Texmo that I was particularly driven to pray for Texmo & Family yesterday.
I guess there was a good reason for that.
#44 Tedtam – AMEN to the happier journey… and sweet reunions with those who went before him.. Prayers for peace and comfort for those he left behind <3 <3 <3
RIP TexMo.
Bones – If I were an evil SOB who inserted genes into a virus to make it more transmissible and deadly, AND I produced a ‘vaccine’ that was orders of magnitude more dangerous than the virus is was supposed to prevent;
Read Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six”.
It is with both a sad and joyful heart that I inform the Couch that Texmo has passed. Mrs. Texmo will let me know of the arrangements, and I will pass them on to y’all when I get them. His journey here is over, with all of the suffering at the end. He begins a new one now. A much… Read more »
If I were an evil SOB who inserted genes into a virus to make it more transmissible and deadly, AND I produced a ‘vaccine’ that was orders of magnitude more dangerous than the virus is was supposed to prevent; why wouldn’t I put a pathogen/toxin in the test strips? I’m not using them anymore – ever. If it can’t be… Read more »
They are saying the Lehigh River Valley in Pennsylvania, which runs north to south, is acting like funnel for the smoke from fires over the border in Canada. It brings it down south to northeastern Pennsylvania and the prevailing west to east winds blow it right towards NYC and the Atlantic. Bergen County NJ is right in the pathway. It… Read more »
Greta warned us:
Heads up: Important climate change “Save That Date” in 17 days
Well, if she wants to die, that’s her choice. I certainly won’t get in her way.
Bsue – I bit the bullet and ordered my freeze dryer. Got the oil free pump. Medium sized machine.
Now, to name it…Bear Grylls? The survival guy?
I’m sure I can come up with something better. I shall ruminate.
In #3 Shannon linked to this column in City Journal about the disastrous results from the destruction of civics and history instruction in primary, secondary and America’s college campuses. Data clearly bear out this analysis. According to the 2019 RAND survey, social studies teachers placed the highest educational value on being “tolerant of people and groups who are different from… Read more »
Finally – a Democrat who gets it: RFK Jr. does what Biden and Kamala WON’T do by meeting the real victims of the border crisis: Democrat says ‘tsunami of migrants defecating in irrigation canals threatens safety of food supply’ and shows extent of ‘dystopian nightmare’ This is something those liberals in the east don’t figure into their sanctuary city and… Read more »
Tucker Carlson’s video from last night has now received over 72 million views.
In less than tree hours, Carlson had 17 million views. Musk is starting a video platform like YouTube and Tucker is the inaugural contributor.
I may have to take back some of the mean things I’ve said about Elon in the past.
Stuff happens. Life intervenes and needs to be dealt with.
34 granny
Dude received the rubber stamp of “denied” at the end.
Morning, gang! I have a report on Billy Cat today. As I have been feeding him 3 times a day for 6 weeks now, I am wondering if he will ever trust me. I don’t see him around other people, just in my back yard, but it is clear that he has had some bad experiences with people. He sees… Read more »
I have a question, and not to be rude but is Will Hurd, X-Texas Congress Critter, a Jackass? If not he missed a real good chance. FWIW; I just saw him on Fox News.
33 wagonburner
Neither will I.
One daughter was at her new endocrinologist’s office the other day and was asked by the nurse practitioner there if she was vaccinated. When she said no, the nurse swooned and said how lucky she was and wished that she herself had never taken the “vaccine”.
wagonburner! Good to see yoy where the H3!! have you been?
Okay, play stupid games, etc. Perp gets roadkilled. Question: the two cars that saved taxpayers so much money – were they police cars? The image is blurred on those two, but not on the other cop cars. I can’t tell if they had markings or not. Were these citizens who were just fed up and decided to help? I can’t… Read more »
I will not accept any mRNA “vaccine” ever again.
#26 SD
I absolutely agree the kid should not have the slightest chance to access a firearm. Actually not sure I believe that part of the story though.
A PYRO SIGHTING!!
There’s a vaccine for melanoma working it’s way through trials.
Yes, it’s an mRNA product.
Good luck with that.
What and/or where is this “North Dakota” of which you speak?
Bones: #21 TT: Every day we get a fax here at the office describing a teen, usually female, missing. Every day. At least one. These are US citizens, not the wave of illegal alien invaders. I’ve always been an advocate for not raising children in an atmosphere of fear, but I do worry about my granddaughters. Sunshine, especially. There are… Read more »
#23 TT: I wonder how low CNN’s ratings are going to go before their owners pull the plug. I can’t imagine that they are operating in the black now and I can’t see it getting any better.
fourteen yr old autistic boy a couple houses down ran off with daddy’s pistol yesterday afternoon I am far from a hand wringing protectionist that wants all guns locked up, separate from their ammunition, making them totally useless for self defense BUTT DAYAAM! If I had an autistic son I’d make damn sure he couldn’t get a hold of a… Read more »
Officers on foot with a dog now, word is they spotted him this morning but lost him again.