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Senate rejects 'Cut, Cap, Balance'
Politico ^ | 7/22/2011 | By SCOTT WONG

Posted on 07/22/2011 8:15:46 AM PDT by BfloGuy

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Friday narrowly voted to block a Republican measure that would force Congress to pass a stringent balanced budget amendment and cap spending before increasing the debt ceiling.

The legislation, a conservative priority, never had a chance of passing, but the strictly partisan 51-46 vote to table the “Cut, Cap and Balance” bill highlighted the partisan divide in Washington over how to tackle spending and raise the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt limit.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; bhofascism; ccb; cutcapbalance; debtdeal; democrats; gangof234; liberalfascism; obama; palin; taxes
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So, what's left? The Krauthammer Plan? Or has Boehner really reached a deal?
1 posted on 07/22/2011 8:15:47 AM PDT by BfloGuy
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To: BfloGuy

Screw em. No debt increase then!


2 posted on 07/22/2011 8:18:19 AM PDT by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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The Republicans can sit tight on their bill ~ at the last minute the Democrats will have to take up the bill for another vote OR they'll default.

The House did all it can do for these schmucks.

3 posted on 07/22/2011 8:18:32 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: BfloGuy

bump.


4 posted on 07/22/2011 8:18:32 AM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
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To: BfloGuy

Mission accomplished.

The record is clear.


5 posted on 07/22/2011 8:18:59 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: BfloGuy

The Rats voted to default. Too bad.


6 posted on 07/22/2011 8:19:27 AM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: BfloGuy

“We’re going to dispose of this legislation as it needs to be, so that President Obama and the speaker can move forward on a [plan] that will have some revenue in it,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said just before the roll call began.


7 posted on 07/22/2011 8:19:45 AM PDT by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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To: BfloGuy

What’s left is to get in front of as many microphones as possible and make it known the Democrats don’t want to cut spending or balance the budget. Make it known that all Obama is interested in is spending money and raising taxes without giving a damn about how the bills get paid when they come due.


8 posted on 07/22/2011 8:20:05 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: BfloGuy

Time for the House to go on summer vacation until September 12.


9 posted on 07/22/2011 8:20:44 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Senator Coburn intends on doing just that


10 posted on 07/22/2011 8:21:24 AM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: BfloGuy

“There is no deal. There is no agreement in private” with Democrats, Boehner told reporters at the Capitol as the Senate was voting on a bill pushed through the House by majority Republicans which is called “cap, cut and balance” in pursuit of an accommodation on raising the government’s debt limit. The legislation was killed in the Democratic-dominated Senate on a procedural vote by a 51-46 margin.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/22/3787123/boehner-says-house-has-done-its.html#ixzz1SqZJWJRe


11 posted on 07/22/2011 8:22:27 AM PDT by kcvl
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What’s left is for the House leadership to take to the media - including op-eds in all of the major newspapers and every inch of network TV they can slip in to.


12 posted on 07/22/2011 8:24:30 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: muawiyah
We saw what happened in Minn. demwit governor had to take the republican plan in the end....he thought he was so smart and proved what an idiot he is and dems are......

The senator dems who're running in 2012...can kiss their seats goodbye.

13 posted on 07/22/2011 8:24:30 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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To: BfloGuy

What’s left?

Wholesale cuts of all non-constitutional departments and spending programs of the federal government. (In my dreams)


14 posted on 07/22/2011 8:25:01 AM PDT by listenhillary (We know where you are. We know where you've been.We can guess what you're thinking about-GoogleCEO)
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To: BfloGuy

Idiot Alert...

“We’re going to dispose of this legislation as it needs to be, so that President Obama and the speaker can move forward on a [plan] that will have some revenue in it,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said just before the roll call began.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-senate-debt-vote-20110722,0,581804.story


15 posted on 07/22/2011 8:25:13 AM PDT by kcvl
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>>The Republicans can sit tight on their bill ~ at the last minute the Democrats will have to take up the bill for another vote OR they’ll default.

Or the House could double-down and re-pass the bill with even larger cuts to Dhimmi programs.


16 posted on 07/22/2011 8:25:34 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ./base)
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To: BfloGuy
In the history books now. Good.

Where is the Dems alternative bill?

17 posted on 07/22/2011 8:26:30 AM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: BfloGuy

The GOPers put a bill out there.. the only piece of legislation that will stem a default. They’ve done what they can... the ball’s in the dems’ court now. Now, just have to keep Boehner from caving to a bad deal, like he did re: the FY 11 budget. Any proposed deal must be vetted by the full GOP to avert another blunder.


18 posted on 07/22/2011 8:26:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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Let’s all call/fax Harry Reid’s office and ask him where his plan is...!!!

Washington DC
522 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3542
Fax: 202-224-7327
Toll Free for Nevadans:
1-866-SEN-REID (736-7343)


19 posted on 07/22/2011 8:27:17 AM PDT by kcvl
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“We’re going to dispose of this legislation as it needs to be, so that President Obama and the speaker can move forward on a [plan] that will have some revenue in it,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said just before the roll call began.”

They GOT their revenue when they decided to term the Obamacare mandate a “tax.”


20 posted on 07/22/2011 8:28:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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