[Gaffer]

The constituent orders I’ve given my congressman are: no debt increase, decrease spending NOW dammit, and stop ANY Friggin’ thing Obama wants to do. The MSM may hate him. His peers (loosely called as Democrats and RINOs) may hate him, and Obama may hate him, but in my book if he does that, he’s got my vote and that’s all that counts by damn.

[shield]

IF the freshman congressmen aren’t being told...then we’re back to square 1...no effin’ deal.

[TexasFreeper2009]

any tax hikes will take effect immediately or maybe even retroactively, while any cuts will be spread across the next 10 or more years with the majority of them being weighted to the tail end.

Just watch.

[screaminsunshine]

I agree with Rush. Get rid of the stupid debt limit. The elected reps. need to fight it out. We gave the House the power. Let them exercise it or be replaced.

[EGPWS]

As many as 100 Republicans would not vote for a negotiated debt ceiling increase if it does not include significant cuts in the first year, according to Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.).

So we went from "No new taxes" and "No debt ceiling increase" to just "no new taxes" today?

What is it going to be tomorrow, raise the debt ceiling, raise taxes, and increase spending?

[Jim Robinson]

Repeal ObamaCare or no deal! Deal? What deal? The REPUBLICAN congress controls the spending and the taxes. The REPUBLICAN congress should pass the bills to repeal ObamaCare, cut the spending and cut the taxes. Let the Democrats be the party of no. Then fight it out right up to election day. See which side the people prefer on election day!

[arthurus]

No portion of any deal regarding the debt ceiling matters. The only significant act will be the authorization of more debt. The Republicans will lose when they raise the debt ceiling. The economy lost long ago. Republicans, in the same way as Democrats, are Keynesians. They "know" deep in their bones that the government must grease the wheels for an appearance of some sort of free market. They khow in their DNA that the world and the Economy can only be run by an elite that employs the Experts that are required to make the economy work. They understand at the same time but more superficially that the government should get out of the way but we are, after all, in depression, and they are so afraid of not appearing to "do something" that they will, they must, DO SOMETHING. So the economic decline will be smoothed out a little more so that the collapse, when it comes(WHEN it comes, not if) will be deeper and of longer duration if not. We call it "kicking the can down the road." Somewhere this road ends in a cliff and the exits ahead are fewer and harder to get to, the offramps describe tighter and tighter turns, harder and harder for politicians to make the decision to get off this road.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it will be the beginning of the Tea Party becoming a real Party

[joe fonebone]

100 tea party freshmen?? Hell, they CONTROL the house, if they were organized and had the balls (looks like they may have found them)....nothing would pass or fail without their votes....NOTHING....hell, they could get judges impeached, roll back entitlements, eliminate entire branches of the fed, or else the establishment repubs would look like establishment retards...

[pabianice]

Alas, my congressman is Richard “Stinky” Neal (Communist - 2nd MA district).