Debt Ceiling

Conservatives Renew Campaign Against Boehner Debt Limit Plan

Brian Beutler | July 27, 2011, 3:37PM

RedState's Erick Erickson

Conservative advocates opposed to House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) debt limit plan aren't relenting just because GOP leadership is twisting arms.

Club for Growth president Chris Chocola, and Red State founder Erick Erickson are both continuing to push House Republicans to vote against Boehner's plan when it comes to a vote on Thursday. Indeed, they're opposed to any plan that doesn't guarantee vast spending reductions, and allow conservatives to declare victory in a decades long fight over the propriety of federal safety net programs.

"That's why groups like the Club for Growth and others oppose the Boehner debt reduction plan, the Reid debt reduction plan, the McConnell debt reduction plan (has there been an Obama debt reduction plan?), and any other plan that does not include those basic tenets," Chocola writes in a Wednesday afternoon Politico op-ed. "Even newspapers like the Wall Street Journal that support the Boehner plan point out that 'It's true that the Boehner plan doesn't solve the long-term debt problem.'"

Erickson -- an influential figure among House conservatives -- is taking names.

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'Uncle Sam' Actor Is Back -- Pro-Biz Anti-Debt Group Launches New Ad Campaign

Christina Bellantoni | April 29, 2010, 5:09PM

Randolph Bragg, an actor from Northern Virginia, holds a sign as part of a paid stunt done by a group calling itself Defeat the Debt

The pro-business front group that brought fake homeless people to the streets of Washington to highlight the swelling deficit is back today with a $10 million ad campaign, this time showing "Uncle Sam" drowning in debt.

Defeat the Debt's new campaign appeared last night on Seventh Ave. in New York's Times Square, just as thousands of people were marching on Wall Street to call for financial reform. The group, funded by non-disclosed private donations, is calling it the second phase of its deficit education plan. It also will be accompanied by new television commercials and newspaper ads. Readers may remember the campaign paid big bucks for a SuperBowl ad showing children pledging allegiance to China.

"America is drowning in debt," the ads declare as the Uncle Sam actor is shown going under water. It is designed to drive traffic to the Defeat the Debt web site, which shows a ticker of the growing national debt.

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