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Democratic House Whip tells lawmakers that debt vote has been "postponed."
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, July 28, 2011

Posted on 07/28/2011 2:59:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

GOP aide confirmed and said it would take place later Thursday evening.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: boehner; boehnerbill; boner; debt; debtceiling; debtdeal; debtdealpostponed; debtlimit; default; reid
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To: tennmountainman
First, nothing will solve it at this point. The destruction is already here. All the congress is voting on is how much worse they plan to make it. The GOP is a little less worse while the Rats are more worse.
The only hope now is that the Tea Party takes over 2012 but there needs to be a real denigration of Obama and the other Rats.
121 posted on 07/28/2011 4:26:29 PM PDT by tobyhill (Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
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To: All

Funny thing all this stuff is mute. We have to make major changes even bigger than the CCB bill.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2755402/posts

It is coming and everyone will feel the effects. So why are they still playing games with small numbers? Where is reality and Leaders? Paul Ryan did speak about this today but where is the choir?


122 posted on 07/28/2011 4:27:11 PM PDT by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: jafojeffsurf
I know not reality but man I can dream...

There is so much in play right now; hell, it could be right.

I'm wondering what the "lobbyists" are up to about now (K street; right?). All these talks of massive cuts has to be generating open wallets from lobbyists to congress-critters.

123 posted on 07/28/2011 4:30:42 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: crusader71

This is the crap Republicans have been saying for years. Lets not act Conservative yet because if we do we will lose the next election. Then people will say the same thing after that. What’s the point of electing Conservatives if they don’t do Conservative things? If Conservatives can’t act Conservative without losing elections then it’s not important who wins because we will never be able to do anything significant enough to save our nation.

The fact is it’s probably already too late to save our nation. Does anyone really believe we will be able to cut spending drastically enough for an extended period of time to make the difference needed?

That’s not even taking into account the invasion of illegal immigrants who are literally taking over parts of the nation, and who are supported by the administration(as well as past administrations), and many in both parties. Very few are willing to take a stance against it even when we have had several incidents of the Mexican military making incursions onto U.S. soil. Our own federal government fights against States for Mexico.

The Tea Party movement and the recent State laws on illegal immigration have given some hope, but the problems have went on for so long and are so bad at this point it’s going to take a lot more.


124 posted on 07/28/2011 4:31:14 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Illegal immigration is a bigger security threat to our nation than any terrorist group.)
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To: InterceptPoint
Indeed.

A comment from one of the Freshmen Representatives:

@JimPethokoukis
James Pethokoukis RT @jacksonjk: Rep. Southerland going into McCarthy's office says only way he'd not vote no is if “the lord take me home right now.”

125 posted on 07/28/2011 4:31:16 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: tobyhill

I agree that only a new group of real conservatives can save this country now. The current group are not capable.


126 posted on 07/28/2011 4:33:57 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: CA Conservative

Reid does not want to get tagged as the ultimate obstructor. That’s why eventually if the House doesn’t cave he WILL re-vote on CCB and foist it off on Zero.


127 posted on 07/28/2011 4:34:20 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS
Anything that stops a compromise forces Reid to bring up CCB AGAIN (which under the rules he can do and will have to do). So, I say, “no deal!!!!”

CCB will be brought up even if the house bill passes. The Senate can't add enough cuts to make the house bill stretch through 2012 without raising taxes or cutting entitlements.

128 posted on 07/28/2011 4:34:48 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama, eat your GOPeas.)
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To: swamprebel

http://youtu.be/8SGyVNippvA


129 posted on 07/28/2011 4:35:29 PM PDT by swamprebel ((jmho))
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To: Rational Thought

Luke Russert
LukeRussert Luke Russert
Members of the South Carolina #GOP House delegation praying for their leaders in the House Chapel off of the Rotunda. #Debt
9 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

get on twitter to those two praying reps

boehner only needs two votes.


130 posted on 07/28/2011 4:36:56 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: expatpat

If Reid passes Odumbo signs. Anything that Odumbo doesn’t want to sign won’t pass or maybe won’t be allowed to come up to a vote.


131 posted on 07/28/2011 4:38:51 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: RummyChick

I recognize the technology for what it is and will not use it for that reason alone.


132 posted on 07/28/2011 4:40:06 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: RummyChick

jacksonjk Jill Jackson
Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a no, just walked into Speaker’s office. Said he is still a no. Asked if anything would change his mind and he said no.


133 posted on 07/28/2011 4:40:19 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: swamprebel

Downstairs, GOP leaders were meeting with a number of Republicans who did not want to vote for the bill. I ran into one of them, Rep. Bill Posey of Florida, who was being hauled in for another meeting with the Speaker.

All week, Posey has stayed on the fence, but his body language has been that of someone who is not interested at all in voting for this legislation. He had no comment on where he stood on the bill when asked as he walked down the hallway just outside the House Chamber.”
Jamie dupree~AJC
http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2011/07/28/debt-bill-on-hold/


134 posted on 07/28/2011 4:41:40 PM PDT by swamprebel ((jmho))
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To: LS
Reid does not want to get tagged as the ultimate obstructor. That’s why eventually if the House doesn’t cave he WILL re-vote on CCB and foist it off on Zero.

While I agree Reid does not want to be the "obstructor", I see nothing that would force him to go with CCB rather than his own bill.

135 posted on 07/28/2011 4:41:53 PM PDT by CA Conservative
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To: MinorityRepublican
McCotter's on CSpan right now for about 2 minutes...

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

136 posted on 07/28/2011 4:42:12 PM PDT by moovova (Obama rolled up his sleeves...and cut 2 strokes off his golf score.)
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To: moovova

ooops...sounds like McCotters thrown in the towel...voting Yes.


137 posted on 07/28/2011 4:43:45 PM PDT by moovova (Obama rolled up his sleeves...and cut 2 strokes off his golf score.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Look, all our huffing and puffing, rah rah rah, Boehner should do this, I don’t care, blah blah blah isn’t helpful. What really matters are two things:

1. Not attacking the debt at all, which we all know this bill does none of that.
2. Not coming out looking like the R’s caused damage that Obama and his press can blame successfully on the R’s.

So, point is, I’m fine criticizing Boehner, but acting like brats here and saying, I don’t care if it gets shot down is just silly and immature. We have to call our reps, call Boehner, and let them know how we feel...saying you already did that DOES NOT COUNT...do it again!


138 posted on 07/28/2011 4:45:55 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: CA Conservative

Because his own bill is DOA in the House and he knows it.


139 posted on 07/28/2011 4:46:09 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: swamprebel

RT @chucktodd: GOP leadership aide: no vote before 8pm


140 posted on 07/28/2011 4:56:25 PM PDT by swamprebel ((jmho))
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