GOP leaders discussed the proposal with their members at a conference meeting, with some aides saying a vote could come as soon as Thursday. ...."
Harry, you really are overplaying your hand now.
If Reid shuts this down, then this is Reid’s total shutdown.
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LOL all or nothing with this bunch.
Removing the emergency brake is not a solution.
Yes the move to temp inc the debt limit worked.
Dems won’t take it. After the chicken little about what if it doesn’t happen... now they won’t take it?
lo frickin’ l
They want to make Boner beg after he bends.
Can Reid legally do this?
Just by-pass the House and put us another 1.1 trillion in the hole?
When Mr. Obama became president in January 2009, the total federal debt stood at $10.6 trillion. This week, it hit $16.7 trillion an increase of 57 percent. In the same time frame under President George W. Bush, total federal debt rose 38 percent. Under President Clinton, it rose 32 percent.
Sophie's choice was to decide, immediately and at gunpoint, which of two children she was going to keep, and which to send off to the Nazi concentration camp.
That fat lying disgrace of a man Dickless Durbin ought to be dragged out of the Capitol building and horse-whipped in the street.
What a filthy garbage-minded piece of offal he is.
Guess they see weakness in GOP on debt limit, lots of GOP $$$$ interests getting scared.
If I were Boehner then I’d say: SCREW YOU (pass a short term debt increase) then let the default (which isn’t a default) rest on Senate DEMOCRATS)!
He should call the "clean bill" what it really is, a blank check.