Posted on 07/21/2011 12:45:50 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
Senate Democrats just wrapped up a meeting with OMB Director Jack Lew in the Capitol and they are not pleased. All indications are that the reports Dan cites are more or less accurate. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) told reporters that a call came in from the White House during the meeting to announce a “potential agreement” with House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio).
Reid appeared to confirm reports that the proposed deal would not raise significant revenue, at least in the near term, and indicated that he didn’t think this would be acceptable to Democrats in congress. “The president always talked about balance, there had to be some fairness in this,” he said, grimly. “This can’t be all cuts. There has to be balance, there has to revenue and cuts.”
So, provided the reports are generally true, is Obama really willing to sell all Congressional Democrats down the river (apart from the moderates facing reelection in 2012) just to win another term? I think the answer is self-evident.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
It’s REALLY hard to tell ... BUT ... I have pretty much predicted the outcome WOULD be exactly this:
- a small deal that is spending cuts only
Why?
BECAUSE THE HOUSE GOP IS HOLDING FIRM AND WONT PASS ANYTHING ELSE!
1) Gang of 6 ‘deal’ is NOT ready for a vote.
2) McConnell plan is DOA in the House.
3) Tax hikes are DOA in the House.
4) Cut, Cap and Balance has majority House support and will get almost 50 votes in the Senate.
5) Obama has threatened to veto Cut, Cap and Balance.
The ONLY option left is a small debt ceiling raise combined with some significant spending cuts. So they do a 6 month extention, promise to discuss a ‘grand bargain’ and pass some spending cuts.
Either Obama gets NO deal
I agree.
Simple really. Every dollar they can conficate from you is one more dollar under their control, one less under your control.
That's all there is to it.
if Lord Obama doesnt get the Extortion Cieling razed he will make us suffer more than Obamacare ever will
Go blow thyself, ReidIdiot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkbDdPeL7I
“I believe his intent is to destroy the U.S.”
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I believe that you KNOW that RC! Can you or anyone else reading this give me one good reason to even suspect that you might be wrong? Is the intention any less clear than the view of the sun rising out of the ocean at Myrtle Beach on a cloudless morning?
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