Tea Party Prepared To Revolt.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Tea partiers eye debt-cap filibuster

The Senate’s Tea Party Caucus will face a tough decision when it comes time to vote to raise the national debt limit: Fall in line behind Republican leadership or go rogue.

The founding members of the new caucus – freshman Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and second-term Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) – are each considering whether to mount a filibuster to block an increase of the $14.3 trillion national debt ceiling.

The vote, which carries both tangible and political consequences, will be a test of how far the fiercely conservative tea party senators are willing to take their purist ideology.

“Look, I intend to fight the debt ceiling increase and use as many tools in my disposal as I can muster under the circumstances,” Lee told POLITICO Wednesday. “At this point, there are a lot of variables to figure out exactly what the best procedural tool is and what the best way of influencing my colleagues not to do this is. I’m not ruling anything out.”

Asked about leadership’s wariness of a potential filibuster, Lee said: “On an issue this big, obviously there is going to be some coordination among Republicans, and I want to make sure anything I do doesn’t undo what my colleagues within the party are doing.”

DeMint said Wednesday he’s “considering both options” when asked whether he’d filibuster or allow an up-or-down vote.

“I think we should do everything we can to avoid raising the debt ceiling,” DeMint said. “I think what’s going to disappoint [tea party activists] is if we don’t get a clear vote on a House budget amendment, and if we don’t get a good vote on the spending caps. I think people want to see our lining up on those things.”

For his vote, Paul told reporters Wednesday a debt limit hike must include a balanced budget amendment, but Democrats say such a plan would make Congress virtually ungovernable. And it would almost certainly lack the 67 votes needed for its adoption, since just 11 Democrats voted for Lee’s non-binding resolution on the matter in March.

But Paul wouldn’t say whether he’d filibuster a plan without a balanced budget amendment.

“We’ve got to significantly change the way we’re doing things around here,” he said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53149.html#ixzz1JW77u4Dd

Edited April 14, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[mawilson 2,133]

Awesome.

Hope you have enough ammo and food for a few months.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Awesome.

Hope you have enough ammo and food for a few months.

I should probably include my cat in the emergency food supply.

By the way, where did they learn to tie a tie? The two on the left need lessons.

Edited April 14, 2011 by Sousuke

[slim 1,530]

Hope you have enough ammo and food for a few months.

I'm good.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'm good.

I thought you weren't allowed to own firearms?

[mawilson 2,133]

I thought you weren't allowed to own firearms?

Grenades are allowed.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I thought you weren't allowed to own firearms?

He just confirmed he's good on food and ammo. No mention of firearms. Suppose he could just throw the bullets...