{"id":7077,"date":"2010-09-17T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2010-09-17T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:05:47","slug":"its-the-spending-stupid-wsjs-daniel-henninger-should-like-cfifs-one-more-vote-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7077\/its-the-spending-stupid-wsjs-daniel-henninger-should-like-cfifs-one-more-vote-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s the Spending, Stupid”: WSJ’s Daniel Henninger Should Like CFIF’s “One More Vote” Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his weekly Wonder Land<\/em> column entitled “It’s the Spending, Stupid,”<\/a> The Wall Street Journal’s<\/em> Daniel Henninger describes how “concern” over out-of-control federal spending has reached the boiling point:<\/p>\n

They, the voters, are not ‘concerned’ about Uncle Sam’s spending floating toward the moon.\u00a0 They are enraged, furious, crazed and desperate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heninger rightfully points out that it won’t be enough for voters to simply return Republicans to House and Senate majorities this November.\u00a0 Rather, something more lasting, tangible, and assuring is needed:<\/p>\n

If voters give control of the House to the GOP, the party desperately needs to establish credibility on spending.\u00a0 Absent that, little else is possible.\u00a0 Independent voters now know that the national Democratic Party, hopelessly joined to the public-sector unions, will never stabilize public outlays.\u00a0 In a sense, the GOP’s impending victory is meaningless, a win by default.\u00a0 If the Republican rookies entering Congress next year don’t do something identifiably real to stop the federal spending balloon, voters two years from now will start throwing the GOP under the bus.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enter CFIF’s new “One More Vote”<\/a> citizen activist campaign.\u00a0 “One More Vote” refers to the fact that Congress fell just one vote short in the 1990s of passing a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, and sending it to the states for ratification.\u00a0 Echoing Daniel Henninger’s commentary this week, the “One More Vote” homepage states that, “Currently, there are several worthy ideas proposed in Congress.\u00a0 But we need more than ideas.\u00a0 We need a solution.”\u00a0 Accordingly, “One More Vote” proposes a Constitutional amendment requiring (1) a federal balanced budget annually, (2) a 60% majority of both houses of Congress to raise the debt ceiling, and (3) a 60% vote of both houses of Congress to increase or create new taxes.<\/p>\n

It’s precisely the type of real, lasting and tangible change that enraged American voters described by Henninger demand.\u00a0 Click on “One More Vote”<\/a> now, and join the movement.\u00a0 This time, let’s make sure the change is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his weekly Wonder Land column entitled “It’s the Spending, Stupid,” The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger describes how “concern” over out-of-control federal spending has reached the boiling point: They, the voters, are not ‘concerned’ about Uncle Sam’s spending floating toward the moon.\u00a0 They are enraged, furious, crazed and desperate.” Heninger rightfully points out that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,59,12,465,111,24,35,1802,14,38,61,179,71,28],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-deficit","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-one-more-vote","tag-president-obama","tag-senate","tag-spending","tag-stimulus","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}