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House rejects debt limit increase without cuts
Associated Press ^
| May 31, 2011
Posted on 05/31/2011 4:33:13 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have engineered the defeat of their own proposed $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any future increase in government borrowing.
The vote Tuesday was 97-318, far below the two-thirds majority needed for passage.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012budget; bipartisan; congress; debt; debtceiling; debtlimit
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Awesome. It's a gambit! ... a risky scheme ... a ploy. Gotta love AP, the propaganda wing of the democrat party.
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:37:43 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Republicans signaled well in advance that the debt limit vote was political theater and did not portend a final refusal to grant an increase.Caving before having to cave?
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:37:49 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The Democrats were the ones demanding a clean vote on raising the debt ceiling. The Reps gave them what they wanted. Interesting how many voted with the Reps.
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:41:40 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: Free ThinkerNY
huh...what clear message?
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:41:47 PM PDT
by
evad
(Obama needs to show us his green card)
To: glock rocks
when the GOP votes against their own plan its foolish to the lame stream media- when harry reid votes against one of the many rat bills he brings to the floor, the criminal liberal media call it a parlimentary manuever...
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:48:00 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
To: evad
The clear message sent by the House vote is that the debt ceiling will not be raised without cuts in spending and other structural budget changes. The Dems wanted a clean vote on raising the debt ceiling.
A month or so ago, 114 of them signed a letter to Boehner demanding that the vote be taken without being linked to anything else. They got their wish. It looks like over 80 Dems voted with the Reps.
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:51:38 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: Free ThinkerNY; Lead Moderator
Shouldn’t this be in breaking?
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posted on
05/31/2011 4:54:46 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
To: kabar
So if there is a Financial Doomsday, as many democrats and liberal financial wags were saying, they can’t pin it on the Republicans.
To: Free ThinkerNY
We need the voting record to see if the progressive caucus voted on mass for it.
To: muleskinner
Not really. The vote was about raising the debt ceiling without any conditions. It was defeated with all of the Reps and half of the Dems voting against it.
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:12:44 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: DCmarcher-976453
We need the voting record to see if the progressive caucus voted on mass for it. Massachusetts?
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:15:20 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn't common anymore.)
To: kabar
Hopefully the President gets the message. We’ll go ahead and raise the debt ceiling by one trillion dollars. But let us cut 500 billion dollars for the upcoming fiscal year.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Whoo-hoo! And the WH and the press were saying the GOP wouldn’t dare to do this...the heck with them!
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:22:57 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Free ThinkerNY
Good! I call that a good start!
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:23:55 PM PDT
by
luvie
(RUN SARAH...R U N!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
House Republicans have engineered the defeat of their own proposed $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any future increase in government borrowing. Spending cuts....ROTFLMAO!!!
Spending cuts...democrats ROTFLMAO!!!!
Spending cuts....Barrack Obama ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Yep, we are just THIS close! ROTFLMAO!
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:24:37 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: MinorityRepublican
Hopefully the President gets the message... --------------------------
The drones will willingly follow him over the cliff.
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:31:55 PM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: glock rocks
It's a gambit! ... a risky scheme ... a ploy. Gotta love AP, the propaganda wing of the democrat party. No, AP. It's a win-win situation for conservatives. For the vascillating GOP leadership who say that they must have concessions before raising the debt ceiling, I say that they get those concessions (plus much much more) if they refuse to raise the debt ceiling at all. Refusal to raise the debt ceiling will result in an automatic $1.6 trillion reduction in the federal budget, and there is no way in hell Republicans could ever get that by negotiating with Democrats.
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:32:27 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
To: Hoodat
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posted on
05/31/2011 5:35:03 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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