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Pelosi: Give Obama Power to Personally Lift Debt Limit to Infinity
CNSNews ^ | November 30, 2012 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 11/30/2012 1:19:29 PM PST by jazusamo

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(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that Congress should hand over to President Barack Obama personal, unilateral authority to increase the limit on the U.S. government's debt.

At a Friday press conference, a reporter asked Pelosi if she agreed with a proposal made by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Congress give Obama the power to unilaterally increase the debt limit.

"Yes," she said.

When he met with members of Congress on Thursday to discuss a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that is set to occur at the end of this year, Secretary Geithner suggested that Congress give Obama the personal power as president to lift the legal limit on the federal government's debt.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debtlimit; obama; pelosi
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To: Gilbo_3; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker
gilbos plan would go a bit further...everybody show up to the House and finds a pocket Constitution on their table... "we havent been very successful with budgeting, so from today, if its not explicitly in *here*, it doesnt get funded...therefore, TODAY, we'll historically slash the deficit by $3.5 T "... gavel and go home...

"Scenes We'd Like to See"

181 posted on 12/04/2012 6:22:37 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; stephenjohnbanker; chopperjc; GOPsterinMA; Gilbo_3; Impy
RE :”I think a consensus is forming that, although there are some true conservatives in the party, something is very wrong in the GOP.”

What?? You mean we are moving off of the ‘it's all voter fraud’ phase ? :)

You know I have been preaching this for a while. It only took a few months into 2011 before I saw that there was way more than one thing wrong with the GOP.

Most here agree that the Romney's and Mccain’s and Gramnesty’s are a disaster. We all do.

But what about the claims being posted by more than a few that Angles or Akins would have beat Warren in MA this election? It seems like this is definitely the wrong lesson learned.

The real question is, and you should appreciate this Is :

How could the GOP have picked a bunch of fights with Obama and executed as a team to actually beat him, meaning making him cave to public opinion? Or at least the opinion of key voters in swing states? Rather than the opposite?

Was that really impossible ?

182 posted on 12/04/2012 6:40:02 AM PST by sickoflibs (Has Bohner caved yet? And called it historic again?)
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To: IM2MAD
Does anyone know how much of our debt has gone to muslim countries in the last four years? I’d like to see a list.

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183 posted on 12/04/2012 6:48:44 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: sickoflibs; DoughtyOne; stephenjohnbanker; chopperjc; GOPsterinMA; Gilbo_3; Impy
The real question is, and you should appreciate this Is : How could the GOP have picked a bunch of fights with Obama and executed as a team to actually beat him, meaning making him cave to public opinion? Or at least the opinion of key voters in swing states? Rather than the opposite? Was that really impossible ?

Dishonest, leftist media?

Pop culture figures support the "cool" candidates?

Ignorant or apathetic voters?

Unelectable candidates?

Other GOP candidates who do get elected but are too comfortable in the DC culture?

I liked Mia Love in Utah. Didn't put her foot in her mouth but she lost.

184 posted on 12/04/2012 7:03:48 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; chopperjc; GOPsterinMA; ...

” the GOP didn’t worry that much about the debt in the GWB years, “

GOPe was getting all of THEIR pork, so why worry?


185 posted on 12/04/2012 7:25:34 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker

gilbos plan would go a bit further...everybody show up to the House and finds a pocket Constitution on their table... “we havent been very successful with budgeting, so from today, if its not explicitly in *here*, it doesnt get funded...therefore, TODAY, we’ll historically slash the deficit by $3.5 T “... gavel and go home...

“Scenes We’d Like to See”

LOVE to see!


186 posted on 12/04/2012 7:30:46 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: crosshairs
And thats just for liquor.

Nah, more face-stretching. The rest of us will need the liquor.

187 posted on 12/04/2012 7:43:37 AM PST by pigsmith (Now I understand why America is not mentioned in the end times.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

No it didn’t, and I’ve railed on that for years. It gave the the Left cover to say we were no better too. And now we look like we’re being two faced.

Bush destroyed our ability to push for decent policies. Too many well meaning people on our side, trashed criticism of Bush’s actions in what they considered to be defense of Conservatism.

It played right into the hands of the Left.

It’s why I detest voting in Leftist Republican. In this instance (Romney), it’s tough to see how you take a pass on that.


188 posted on 12/04/2012 10:15:10 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: jsanders2001
Word is they’re trying to find a clever way to disarm the gun owners[...]

I wonder what they'll try, and if it'll be another midnight-deal... or worse a "secret treaty" with the UN.

189 posted on 12/04/2012 1:24:08 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: IM2MAD

And once again trickle down fund our own jihadist demise at an accelerated rate.


190 posted on 12/04/2012 5:39:29 PM PST by Huskerfan44 (Huskerfan44)
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To: ecomcon

They believe they have full CONTROL of the assets to justify the borrowing.
These may include all Federal controlled land, petroleum and mineral assets. Would we ever get them back? Only through war. Follow the dots of China lending, along with Hillary and Geithner visits, from the inaugeration of Obama.


191 posted on 12/04/2012 6:12:07 PM PST by Huskerfan44 (Huskerfan44)
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To: jazusamo

I saw this today at a Save Mart in Sacramento.. The Obama Democrats are testing the new shopping cart each will receive once Obama get the sole authority to raise the debt limit . . . .

192 posted on 12/04/2012 9:03:26 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Stormdog

“It would never happen here”

Oh, it could happen here. But it wouldn’t last long.


193 posted on 12/05/2012 2:40:03 AM PST by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: jazusamo

I think that last shot of Botox went straight to her brain!


194 posted on 12/05/2012 3:38:30 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: jazusamo

The civil war is coming...get prepared.


195 posted on 12/05/2012 6:49:46 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: jazusamo

Final Phase Obamanation Communism File.


196 posted on 12/05/2012 8:48:13 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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