WSJ: Hitting the Debt Limit

President Obama and eight congressional leaders, including Speaker Boehner, are scheduled to meet at the White House tonight to determine how big a deal they can achieve. ✧ News that the unemployment rate rose to 9.2% in June, its highest level this year, pushed members of both parties further into their rhetorical corners Friday. ✧ Mr. Boehner, under pressure from Republicans to reject any tax increases, said the jobs data were a sign negotiators face a "dire" situation and "tax hikes on families and job creators would only make things worse." ✧ Still, Mr. Boehner has opened the door to a compromise on the thorniest tax issue by entertaining the idea of linking a broad rewrite of the tax code to allowing tax cuts for upper-income people to expire. Read more at WSJ... Read More......

Eugene City Council compromises on Pledge of Allegiance

FOXNEWS.COM, 6/28/2011 by Dan Springer (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler) - Compromise on Pledge of Allegiance in Oregon Town Has Some Seeing Red

An Oregon town's City Council voted down a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every council meeting, but later passed a compromise that seemed to make no one happy. ∴ The approved measure allows the pledge to be recited at just four Eugene City Council meetings a year, those closest to the Fourth of July, Veterans Day, Memorial Day and Flag Day. ∴ It was supposed to be simple, but Councilman Mike Clark soon found out when you’re dealing with God and country, nothing in Eugene is easy. Read more at Fox...

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Rove: Obama and the Democratic Revolt

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/9/2010 by Karl Rove - The White House must convince Dems—50 in the House and about 15 in the Senate. ---For agreeing to a temporary extension of all the Bush tax cuts, President Obama is now facing a full-fledged revolt within his party. The responses from congressional Democrats have ranged from chilly to angry to threatening. ∴ One asked, "Could we have a little fight before we cave? Why go right to surrender?" Another accused Mr. Obama of saying, "let 'em eat cake." Another called the compromise "an absolute disaster" and "an insult." Another complained, "we got screwed." ∴ Liberals outside Congress are even more bitter. MoveOn.org demanded Democrats not "capitulate to the GOP on this terrible deal." Some have talked of primary challenges to Mr. Obama. ∴ It won't be easy for Mr. Obama to push the compromise through Congress. Nancy Pelosi doesn't see where the votes will come in the House. Harry Reid's spokesman says simply that the majority leader "plans on discussing it with his caucus." Read more at WSJ... Read More......

The Base is Wrong about the Gang of 14 (Interesting perspective)

American Thinker, January 30, 2008 by Richard Baehr

When conservatives lay out their long list of apostasies committed by John McCain, one of them is always his role in the Gang of 14, the 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans in the Senate who agreed to a judicial compromise in 2005. To put it plainly, the critics of the deal are flat out wrong. Continued...

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