A Conservative triple play

A Conservative triple play

That last time Washington D. C. saw a triple play was in 1968 when Ron Hansen managed the feat against the Cleveland Indians in a game in which the Senators lost to the Indians by a score of 10 to one. Now the Republicans are staring at an opportunity to complete their own version of a triple play that could box President Obama into a corner that offers no easy way out.

The Republicans completed the first out against the President by passing the “Cut, Cap and Balance” legislation that many Americans long for. Even though the bill was defeated in the Democrat controlled Senate it should not be looked at as a loss for the Republicans. Speaker Boehner can now stand before the American public and tell them the GOP is trying to put America on the path to fiscal responsibility by balancing the budget and reducing the deficit but they are being undermined by the Democrats in Congress.

President Obama and Secretary Geithner have repeatedly threatened the nation’s veterans, the elderly and the sick by telling them he cannot guarantee them their checks will be mailed come August third. The President is also making our creditors nervous by continuously repeating that our country could default on our obligations to them even though he knows that our Constitution requires the government to pay our debt before any other bills are paid. The GOP should move quickly to pass legislation that stipulates our debt will be paid and checks will go out to Social Security recipients and military personnel.

By passing this legislation the Republicans would force the Democrats to pass it in the Senate or face a constituency of “mad as hell” elderly voters and military personnel. The President would then be forced to sign the law into effect or forever be known as the cruel, uncaring President. Either way the Democrats play it, the Republicans will be able to honestly tell the American public they are acting in their best interest. Out number two for the President.

The debate concerning the raising of the country’s debt ceiling has dominated the headlines for the past several weeks. House Republicans should stand firm in their opposition to any increase in debt. A denial of increased indebtedness to the President would result in a budget that is automatically balanced. The government would be forced to spend only revenues that are collected. This would force the President to make difficult choices about which agencies and social programs would be curtailed or altogether eliminated. Let the President explain his decisions to an American public that would increasingly see the situation as one that was created by the President himself. Out number three.

Conservatives would see refusal of a debt ceiling increase as an opportunity to shrink or even eliminate agencies and programs they have long felt were unnecessary. Organizations such as the Department of Energy, the Education Department or the EPA could be defunded and sent the way of the dodo bird.

Liberals would view the President as being too weak to negotiate with Congressional Republicans well enough to keep alive their social “give away” programs they call safety nets. Democrats look at the President and see the man that cost them ability to influence voters with taxpayer money.

With three outs against him, odds are the President would not be voted back into the Whitehouse in 2012. Any day without this man as President would be a good day for America.

Carl Goodson lives in Lake Jackson, TX. Carl can be contacted at www.conservativecarl@gmail.com.