Posted on 07/21/2011 1:21:59 PM PDT by iowamark
I have higher standards, and remain underwhelmed.
Boehner sounds like he will agree to any deal he can get the votes to pass.
Yeah. Rush sounded a bit skeptical of Beohner.
Unfortunately San Fran Nan plays for the other team. Obama must be grinning from ear to ear at being able to go up against Boehner.
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I agree.
I contacted Boxer and Feinstein already.
I too heard it. Pure lawyer/politician talk. I needed a bath afterward.
“unknown zone” — Where does Boehner think we are now?
Now this thread has become a Rush bashing thread. I’ll ignore you bashers. I have been listening to Rush since he started talking about making a movie about Desert Storm and wanted to cast Molly Yard as Jabba the Hut. I’ll just ignore your opinions as I am sure Rush does.
More than a little, perfect timing for boner, the show ended.
When you have a Republican House but a Democrat Senate and a Democrat president, I understand that a compromise may be the best you can get. And wouldn't raising the debt ceiling, temporarily, and just enough so as to avoid default--IF you can get with that NO increase in taxes ("revenues" in Obamaspeak) and REAL cuts in spending--would that not be an acceptable compromise? I could live with that. But to give in on tax increases and to not really cut spending--then I would call that a Republican cave-in. We'll see what happens.
He is probably up to the task as he sees the task. He thinks that in the interests of the American people he has to cave to the Democrats. A fatal flaw in Republican character is the subconscious belief that the Democrats are the rightful rulers of the land and Republicans exist to temper the excess of the Rightful Rulers a little bit.
Actually it sounds like a good deal just for the howls it will engender on the far left.
And if we get real CUTS then it is amazing that we have convinced a far-left radical liberal President to do so... I really don't have much complaint.
The Republicans in the House who think of themselves as Real Republicans will follow Boehner. Those who think of themselves as free people will not.
OK well said “There has to be a line of what s unacceptable, and failing to make real cuts and instead raising taxes is one.”
I hope they hold out.But the republicans’ actions in the past have made me gunshy.
The problem is not increase in taxes. That is just another way to slow the economy further and reduce revenues further. The problem is the spending power. It has to be cut off. The ceiling has to be reached and no way around it be found. Raising the debt ceiling puts off the necessity of doing something about entitlements. That is the most important thing to the mugabe. Enacted spending cuts as part of any deal are nothing at all. They will be ignored and exceeded very quickly as these teapartiers morph into Washington pols. And they WILL morph into Washington pols. We have to get that ceiling rock solid and it has to be reached so that the administration has to make real cuts, not just the ephemeral pretend cuts of a deal.
One word from Rush and Specter would’ve lost the primary to Toomey. Instead, Mr. “I Don’t Have Guests” brought Specter on the show. It was sickening.
Boehner is not lying. He is not saying anything at all.
Cheers!
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