Posted on 07/21/2011 5:41:09 PM PDT by jocon307
Real Clear Politics Reports: "...[W]'re going to have a vote tomorrow. I'm not going to wait until Saturday. We're going to have a vote tomorrow. I feel confident that this legislation will be disposed of one way or the other...." Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said on the Senate floor.
Reid said he would allow debate of the bill that passed in the House earlier this week. A vote is scheduled for Friday.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/21/harry_reid_cap_cap_and_balance_worst_piece_of_legislation_ever.html
Sen. Jim DeMint has a list of 22 Democratic or Independant Senators who have expressed support for a balanced budget.
These folks need to get A LOT of phone calls tomorrow morning.
From the Senator's website they are:
Max Baucus (D-Montana), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), Tom Carper (D-Delaware), Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania), Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Dianne Feinstein (D-California), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota), Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana), Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut), Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), Bill Nelson (D-Florida), Harry Reid (D-Nevada) [LOL!], Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), John Tester (D-Montana), Mark Udall (D-Colorado).
http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=b1c5626f-f9d1-4451-9b96-332ed0b4977b
Per the latest CNN poll, support for a balanced budget amendment is 66% of adults. Please see question #23. (There is other interesting reading there too. Not all of which is heartening.)
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/07/21/rel11b.pdf
In addition, this bill will require ONLY 51 votes to pass.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/07/21/speaker-boehner-to-rush-limbaugh-there-is-no-deal/
Call your own Senators no matter what.
Pass this list on to your family and friends, let us ring their phones off the hook yet again.
The lead link is to the find your senator page.
I don't want to be accused of mis-quoting Reid, he is completely negative in his statement, but I truncated it for space, not to mislead. Read his full, annoying, statement at the link.
PLEASE CALL PEOPLE, WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS!
I called both my liberal idiots (Sorry to the common idiots) Amy and Al..
Both basically replied via their staff “are you nuts?”
And he believed them?
In retrospect, while my message probably did not help our cause, I sure enjoyed it.
No, I think he is just pointing out their hypocrisy. They have said in the past they would support something and this is a something so they need to put their money where their mouth is.
“In retrospect, while my message probably did not help our cause, I sure enjoyed it.”
LOL!
Some of the staffers are pretty OK, even the ones that work for the dims. By far most are OK.
But some are pretty dreadful.
But, we need to let them know our thoughts.
I think it is having an effect.
The “gang of 6 plan” went from media darling at 4 pm one day to basically DOA by 11 am the next day.
THAT WAS US.
U.S. Capitol Switchboard, (202) 224-3121
PING! Call any and all Senators.
Reid must have changed his mind?
“So everyone understand, we’re going to have a vote tomorrow. I’m not going to wait until Saturday. We’re going to have a vote tomorrow.”
I feel confident that this legislation will be disposed of one way or the other. The American people should understand that this is a bad piece of legislation. Perhaps some of the worst legislation in the history of this country,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said on the Senate floor.
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