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Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget
Washington Examiner ^
| Tuesday, January 8, 2013
| Byron York
Posted on 01/08/2013 5:09:57 AM PST by upchuck
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Sounds like a plan to me.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:10:03 AM PST
by
upchuck
To: upchuck
Wouldn’t it be great to have a tough GOP? Just a thought.
To: upchuck
It’s not a plan unless they are willing to let the government shut down to get what they want. Are they?
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:14:52 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: upchuck
"I think it should be a firm principle that we should not raise the debt ceiling until we have a plan on how the new borrowed less money will be spent," Sessions told me Monday in a phone conversation from his home in Alabama. Close, Mr. Sessions.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:16:15 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: From The Deer Stand; upchuck
Wouldnt it be great to have a tough GOP? Just a thought.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:16:38 AM PST
by
Doofer
(Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
To: upchuck
Is the debt limit a more effective weapon to use than just refusing to pass the CRs that O demands?
With the CR if Reid rejects the House CR the government shuts down, obviously O blames Rs and finger pointing .game plays out
With the debt limit its unclear how it plays out. Treasury decides what to fund?
I have heard it suggested that he could cut off funding to industries in Red states like inspections of poultry, shutting those down.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:17:35 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Losing to O is NOT a principle!)
To: upchuck
Someone needs to ask Byron York if he’s Serious.I see nothing that the cowardly Republican’s are going to do to force Harry Ried into doing anything.
This has not been their history as of the last two year with John Boener leading the House.So I’d say its very unlikely.Not that I wouldn’t like to see Ried and the demrat s eat crow.I would and I’d enjoy it.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:20:30 AM PST
by
puppypusher
(The World is going to the dogs.)
To: upchuck
RE “
I think it should be a firm principle that we should not raise the debt ceiling until we have a plan on how the new borrowed money will be spent,” Sessions told me Monday in a phone conversation from his home in Alabama. “If the government wants to borrow money so it can spend more, then the government ought to tell the Congress and the American people how they will spend it.” Especially since O demands Debt limit extensions well into the future.
I propsed an idea like this. Connect the debt limit with the actual spending bills.
I think budgets (spending) can be passed with 51 Senate votes so Os excuse on that doesnt not hold water.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:23:47 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Losing to O is NOT a principle!)
To: upchuck
The GOP will “force” the Republican Party to accede to whatever it is that Reid and the kenyan desire after a respectable period of whining. The Republicans are in a “please eat us last” scenario.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:25:17 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: upchuck
Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget Yeah, because that constitutional requirement thingy hasn't compelled the vile POS to pass a budget in the last four years, has it Byron? Gee, I wonder if you and the rest of the communist-loving POS scumbags in the MSM would let Republicans get away with forgoing their responsibility to pass an annual budget? /s
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:28:40 AM PST
by
Common Sense 101
(Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
To: puppypusher
Being extremely generous, Pubbies could be given a pass for allowing this to happen once. We’re coming up on the 4th attempt ! It is absurd to consider anything else but shutting down unless the Senate meets their legal obligations.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:33:36 AM PST
by
chiller
(Do not consume any NBCNews;MTPTodayNightlyNewsMorningJoeMSNBCBrianWilliams sts)
To: upchuck
Budget, smudget.
This is just the republicans trying to hurt the middle class.
Next?
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:36:58 AM PST
by
John 3_19-21
(Do you know what sarcasm is?)
To: upchuck
Sounds like what Boehner et al. should have done long ago.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:43:07 AM PST
by
dinodino
To: puppypusher
I suspect Boehner has been smacked in the face with the reality that Obama wants chaos, not solutions. He should hang here more often, or catch a webcast of most conservative talkers, who have been saying this for years.
Never let a crisis go to waste is their MO. Plain to see for anyone who bothers to look.
Obeyme purposely flirts with sedition, knowing he can get away with almost anything. His intent to destroy/weaken the nation is could be provable, and impeachable, imho.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:43:13 AM PST
by
chiller
(Do not consume any NBCNews;MTPTodayNightlyNewsMorningJoeMSNBCBrianWilliams sts)
To: puppypusher
Agreed, it would be great to see but hearing more than talk. 1st step would be going thru a markup on Sandy relief instead of accepting Harry Reid’s bill.
To: upchuck
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Stop talking and ACT. Do something. With the GOP, they are always going to take a stand and win the next battle after the Dems roll over them time and time again.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:45:59 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: upchuck
The GOP couldn’t even force a fart... Are you kidding me? Impotent, bloated GOP... Evidence? Boehner is still the captain of the stinking ship.
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:56:06 AM PST
by
momincombatboots
(Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
To: upchuck
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posted on
01/08/2013 6:00:03 AM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(...and to the Republic for which it STOOD...)
To: upchuck
Harry Reid has no reason or motivation whatsoever to give ANYTHING to the GOP. Heck, the GOP has no reason to do anything conservative.
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posted on
01/08/2013 6:13:27 AM PST
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: upchuck
Budget?!? We don' need no stinkin' budget, ya bunch a amateurs. We spend just fine without a budget.
The first term was just practice, but now that we're serious in the second term, we're going to spend, spend, spend!!! We're going to borrow, borrow, borrow and print, print, print mo' money!
How's that for a budget? We're so good at budgeting, we're budgeting our great grandkids' money so they won't have any to worry about! Who's the greatest generation now?
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posted on
01/08/2013 6:14:58 AM PST
by
GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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