Posted on 07/25/2011 10:11:01 AM PDT by kristinn
Rush Limbaugh said Speaker of the House John Boehner phoned him this morning around 10:30 to brief him on the latest news about his negotiations with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
Limbaugh told about the conversation on his nationally syndicated radio program. Boehner said there is a two-tier plan in the works. Step one would cut $1.1 trillion in spending with a $1 trillion increase in the debt that would get the government to April 2012 with no tax increases.
The next tier would be recommended cuts by a joint House-Senate committee made by twelve members, six from each chamber with three each appointed by each leader, Boehner, Reid, McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Limbaugh said that McConnell is now on the same page as Boehner.
You are correct! Article I, Sec. 7, of the United States Constitution gives the House exclusive right to originate all Revenue measures. Under that provision, the Senate should have taken up the House Bill, modified it if it chose to and sent it back to the House. Simply ignoring it, and vowing to draft its own measure, ignores the plain language of the Constitution.
What the House must do is simply agree to raise the Debt ceiling only to the extent necessary to accommodate spending that is already authorized, and such additional spending as it anticipates authorizing by a date certain. Beyond that point it must stand like a rock. There is no rational reason to go beyond what the House is willing to agree to, with respect to spending.
Now there is another argument that needs to be voiced, here, beyond what is obvious. Obama wants additional revenue to accommodate his intent to spend money for things that Conservatives believe are simply wrong; wrong because they are not Constitutional; wrong because they actually injure those whose votes Obama seeks to buy--at least in the long-run. There is nothing to compromise on, with respect to such expenditures, anymore than one would award a sugar allowance for a diabetic with an uncontrolled sweet tooth in the family.
America is a multi-generational concept. The interests of our people are not defined by their wants or demands at any moment in time. We have to take a principled stand against that which is corrupting the present; that which is negatively motivating people to do far less than they could do on their own behalf. When you ask at the same time to tax those who are productive; those who are doing the right things for themselves and their families, to so corrupt others; you ask that which no one of conscience can go along with.
Thus far and no further, folks. We must not compromise on this.
William Flax
How dare he! Who the heck does Boehner think he is skirting around the Obama media devices?
Dump us now, then they'll call us back in 2012 when they need the votes.
They promised to get rid of Obomacare if elected, too. That was two years ago. Why haven't they defunded it?
No way is this close to the Gingrich episode.
Obama is getting NO tax hikes. Plus, he has to face another round on this which he was insistent he didn't want to do in an election year LOL.
Boehner is getting what he wanted...cuts equal to the debt ceiling with NO tax hike.
Certainly something to be expected from El Duce.
everyone does realize that the MSM will not report the actual story so by giving it directly to Rush, it’s assured that the real story will go out, one way or another.
Good move but it’s sad because the MSM has been so corrupted that you can’t trust them to tell the truth anymore.
Boehner caved in. We got screwed!!
OOPS!
“Once again, the Republicans have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat!” This should read:
Once again, the Republicans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!
(Can anyone tell how much I’m upset: future budget cuts are NO CUTS!
You don't think the Republican "leadership" will hand him yet another victory at that time like they have consistently done before? You think that all of a sudden the Democrats really won't pull the ball away at the last minute laughing all the time at the gullible Republicans? Obama crushes the effete Republican leadership every time and he will do it again during his reelection campaign. The only one showing fear is Crybaby Boehner.
He'll bring out his little pen and put it all to rest...that's what he did and will do again...
Yes, that it’s even worse than that because Congress and the president only have a say over spending for the next year and a half.
No, these talks have been about the debt ceiling being raised all along.
But the GOP conditions were that an equal number of cuts had to be included with no tax hikes.
That has been the Boehner/Cantor position all along. Looks like they got what they wanted.
Eaxctly my concern. Six Dems, six Republicans. How is that going to work? We already had a debt commission - ordered by Obama - whose recommendations Obama is currently ignoring!
No accountability, just fait acompli
Everyone is afraid of a constitutional convention, but with the republicans holding so many upper and lower chambers in the states, plus all the governorships if we could just get the two amendments that need passing put through it would bypass all of this drama from Washington.
3/4 of the states MIGHT vote for a BBA and legislative term limits so desperately needed, but right now there is no way anything really drastic could muster 3/4 votes from all the states to get something stupid like 2nd A. rescinded.
The state governments are the ones taking it on the chin as Washington keeps slowly draining them of their rightful legislative duties. Getting them together now during the current strife and bitch-slapping both entrenched party heavyweights upside the head by doing an end-around, especially going right past Obama while thumbing their nose at him also, is looking like it might be an answer who’s time has come.
(The states have the right to amend the constitution themselves, after last election and how many chambers went over to the red if we are ever going to try it, and our nation truly needs it, it might as well be now while its safer)
So you’re saying this is what Boehner wants?
“...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is devising a sham that will never pass muster in the House. A Capitol Hill source with knowledge of the plan tells me: “It includes $1.2 trillion in OCO [Overseas Contingency Operations] savings . . . which was assumed anyway, $1.2 trillion (over $1.1 trillion less than [Majority Leader Eric] Cantor identified in the Biden talks) and $300 billion in interest savings.” A Senate aide says dryly that Reid “has about a trillion in ‘savings’ from ending the war in Iraq that’s already going to end.” And a disgusted House adviser bluntly tells me that Reid’s plan “isn’t real.”
Per Jennifer Rubin, at WAPO
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Cut/Cap/Balance supporters not buying promise to hold vote later on Balanced Budget Amendment…
And TARP.
Enviro-nut Hank Paulson telling Bush that unless we rape the taxpayers NOW, tomorrow the Sun will crash into Earth.
There are PLENTY of items that can be cut RIGHT NOW...enough of this ‘kick the can down the road’ bullsh*t from these corrupt dirtbags.
Yes.
“Cuts” in DC-speak are reductions in increases to spending on Federal Programs. For instance, if they spend $20 billion on a program, and propose to increase spending on it to $25 billlion, then “cut” it to “only” $22 billion, that is not a 10% increase in spending the program, but a 12% “cut.”
Naturally Congresscritters and bureaucrats game the system by asking for increases large enough to get what they want when Congress “cuts” spending.
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