To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : The debt fight will define Republicans Debt owed to the public Boehner: “We don’t have the votes”… Whip Count: 22 House Republicans oppose Boehner debt plan Phony cuts, not austerity Does the Boehner plan include a tax increase trap? Debt debate: A pox on both parties Obama the immoderate Barone: Under Obama, millennials move toward GOP Government is twice the size it was a decade ago Revulsion against bailouts on both sides of the Atlantic The next Republic of California?

By Rebekah Rast – “The last thing I want to do is create a state that’s a carbon copy of what we have now,” says Republican Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone about his recent plan to fix the state of California. His plan: split the […]

By Robert Romano – In a recent column for the Wall Street Journal , Holman Jenkins criticized rating agencies for threatening to downgrade the United States’ Triple-A credit rating because, he writes, “the debt to bondholders will be the last to be dishonored.” As such, the U.S. is nowhere near default. That may be so — […]

By Howard Rich – Last week a gleeful American press corps celebrated the most recent “European” bailout of Greece. In fact, one major wire service blissfully concluded that this $230 billion infusion of cash would “end the region’s debt crisis.” Of course such unfounded optimism […]

By Rick Manning – Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, has put the finger on why America is suffering from a jobless recovery as high unemployment continues at 9.2 percent, the federal government and the regulations it imposes. In an interview with Investor’s Business Daily , Marcus doesn’t mince words when he says, […]

Click here to contact Congress to tell them to oppose the House and Senate debt plans. The following post from Erick Erickson is a must read, and is a great way to think about the fight that confronts Conservatives and Republicans right now: This morning took an interesting turn of events. First the Wall Street Journal called us hobbits. Then Bill Kristol proclaimed […]

The only vital difference between the House and Senate plans is Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Senate plan places a cap on spending which includes war spending, and the House plan allows the discretionary spending cap to be adjusted to pay for the war.  So, while […]

By David Bozeman – Why is it that nearly every time there’s a federal budget impasse, Republicans find themselves on the losing end politically? More important, wh is it that our on-going “debate” resembles more a sitting room tiff than a real clash of ideologies? […]

By Robert Romano – A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate released on July 26 states that the total cut for Fiscal Year 2012 in a now-dead House leadership plan to increase the $14.294 trillion debt ceiling would only amount to $1 billion. Americans for Limited Government Bill Wilson called the proposal “laughably pathetic,” noting that “after claiming $1.2 […]

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today reacted to a Congressional Budget Office estimate stating that the total cut for Fiscal Year 2012 in the House leadership debt ceiling increase plan would only amount to $1 billion: “It is laughably pathetic that after claiming $1.2 trillion […]