House rejects debt limit increase without cuts

Associated Press ^ | May 31, 2011

[delbertt]

This is wonderful news.I am so proud of Ron Paul for leading us to this point and the great tea party. God bless Dr. Paul and his awesome son and God save this nation from liberal Republicans like robedme.

[TCH]

AP ... Always Partisan

[TCH]

Have you met Miss ZO T. KITTY?

[Windflier]

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.

Not sure I'm liking that math, and I don't think our creditors will, either.

None of us run our own fiscal houses that way. It's time that Washington started living on a kitchen table budget, too.

[MinorityRepublican]

It's time that Washington started living on a kitchen table budget, too.

Not going to happen.

[South40]

AP's naked partisanship is laid bare. Again.

You see it too? I thought I was the only one. /s

:-)

[kabar]

How long do you think it will take a balanced budget amendment to be drafted and passed by the states and Congress?

[Husker24]

They’ll vote to cut Fifty Million and raise the Debt celing another Trillion, and call it some kind of victory.

[Windflier]

Not going to happen.

Then prepare for interesting times, my friend.

[PGalt]

Defund ALL collectives.

[YoungBlackRepublican]

Score 1 for the good guys. Yay they stood up for once. Now if we can get them to do that on about 100 other things we might be able to get the country turned around. Next up...health care.

[MarineBrat]

Welcome to Free Republic!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

But Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., accused Republicans of a "ploy so egregious that (they) have had to spend the last week pleading with Wall Street not to take it seriously and risk our economic recovery." He and other Democrats added that Republicans were attempting to draw attention away from their controversial plan to turn Medicare into a program in which seniors purchase private insurance coverage.

About half of the Dems voted against raising the ceiling without any cuts. This may be a sign that Bill Clinton was right when he warned them that they could not merely attack the Ryan plan, and hope that the voters would forget about the budget.

And the GOP had better not raise the debt limit without real cuts. Looks like the voters want to hold both parties accountable. At least until they realize that some of their sacred cows would get the axe.

[AndyJackson]

Which means that at least 7 of the jerk-offs who demanded that action voted against the very policy they worked to force to a decision!

Hey, they are not j.o.s because they demanded a vote and then voted against it. That happens on every voting board in the world. It is what you do to send a clear signal that something just is not going to happen. It shuts up the minority who thought they were going anywhere with whining and disruptive behavior.

The real question is ok, what now?

[evad]

"The clear message that Boehner’s GOP is going to look tough and have little to no effect. You know, the one that promised 100 billion in cuts and got zilch."

THAT's the clear message I'm getting.

[PGalt]

Score 1 for the good guys. Yay they stood up for once. Now if we can get them to do that on about 100 other things we might be able to get the country turned around. Next up...health care.

ABSOLUTELY!

[1010RD]

en masse.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/en+masse

;-]

[DaveMSmith]

Return to the gold standard — the war is over

[JustSurrounded]

If spending is cut why must the debt ceiling be raised?

This has been puzzling me as well. Cut enough spending and you won't be taking on new debt. Seems simple to this simple mind.

[Thunder90]