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LIVE BLOG: The Latest on the Debt Negotiations (TOTUS to speak at 10:20AM)
National Journal ^ | 7/29/11 | Ethan Klapper

Posted on 07/29/2011 6:32:45 AM PDT by markomalley

A day after the House postponed its vote on Speaker John Boehner's Budget Control Act, Washington remains at a stalemate. Follow our live blog below for the latest developments.

9:10 a.m. The White House announces that President Obama will deliver a statement at 10:20 a.m.

9:08 a.m. Hotline's Sean Sullivan reports that 22 Republicans are still no votes. He'll be updating the whip count all day, which can be found here.

8:49 a.m. Lawmakers are reacting to last night's events, and we're collecting that reaction here.

8:03 a.m. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s deficit reduction plan is bad, but Boehner’s is worse in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published today.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government
KEYWORDS: debt; debtceiling; deficit
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To: Truth29

If I even half believed your thoughts about our military I’d move to New Zealand.


201 posted on 07/29/2011 8:39:38 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (IACTA ALEA EST!!!)
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To: VirginiaMom

BBA = Balanced Budget Amendment


202 posted on 07/29/2011 8:40:09 AM PDT by swamprebel ((jmho))
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To: VirginiaMom

BBA = Balanced Budget Amendment


203 posted on 07/29/2011 8:41:05 AM PDT by GeorgiaGuy
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To: VirginiaMom

Balanced Budget Amendment...
(from Southeastern VA...cheers! and GO ALLEN!)


204 posted on 07/29/2011 8:41:27 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: swamprebel

Exactly!!!!!! Harry Reid was throwing McCain’s words back in his face this morning yet we have a smorgasbord of words from the marxist himself that we’re afraid to revisit.


205 posted on 07/29/2011 8:42:35 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: TheShaz

Did the same with Rep. Ross....my Rep!


206 posted on 07/29/2011 8:42:40 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: silverleaf

If the Reps were smart they would do exactly that, i.e., a clean short term increase in the debt ceiling covering 6 to 8 months, take it or leave it. Let the Senate and Obama take the heat for not signing it. Obama wants to extend this thing past 2012. Why should we be giving him a $2.4 trillion limit increase on the current $14.3 trillion ceiling? When Obama took office, the debt was $10 trillion. So after four years we will have raised the ceiling to close to $17 trillion. Insane.


207 posted on 07/29/2011 8:44:41 AM PDT by kabar
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To: PieterCasparzen

Definitely see your point...especially if you know that despite the “Big Wall Street Fat Cats” mantra the dims use all the time, their biggest donors and insiders in dim admins are from Goldman, AIG, etc. The revolving door there is just as bad as the “Mainstream Media”.


208 posted on 07/29/2011 8:45:42 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Eagle of Liberty
.......We have a President Government that HAS to be removed

FIFY

209 posted on 07/29/2011 8:45:50 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (0 - 537 They ALL must go.)
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To: wxgesr; VirginiaMom

Thanks.


210 posted on 07/29/2011 8:45:58 AM PDT by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: GoCards
Work together like we did during the healthcare debate.

um.....yeah.
211 posted on 07/29/2011 8:46:45 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Shaking My Head on a daily basis)
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To: wxgesr

Ah, D’uh! Thanks, I should’ve known that.


212 posted on 07/29/2011 8:47:00 AM PDT by VirginiaMom
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To: MrB
Won't be played on the MSM. They will put up all the women with kids that work for the unnecessary departments, and how mean it is that the GOP will make them starve in the dark.

The GOP painted themselves into a corner, and are going to pay a steep price. Either raise the debt ceiling, and get blasted, or have Obama do it himself, and witness the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire.

213 posted on 07/29/2011 8:47:43 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: MrB
Won't be played on the MSM. They will put up all the women with kids that work for the unnecessary departments, and how mean it is that the GOP will make them starve in the dark.

The GOP painted themselves into a corner, and are going to pay a steep price. Either raise the debt ceiling, and get blasted, or have Obama do it himself, and witness the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire.

214 posted on 07/29/2011 8:47:43 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: kabar

“If the Reps were really smart, they would send a clean, short term increase in the debt ceiling and send it to the Senate.”

This is the obvious solution now tha Boehner and McConnell have fubared this. We lost this battle when it became clear Republican leadership would not fight. Today we could have been pounding barry with new GDP numbers but instead we continue the circular firing squad of multiple GOP plans.

It seems many freepers want to storm obama beach right now with a troop of useless Congressional Reps who have no fight in them. Everything should be about getting barry out in 2012. Boehner’s continued bumbling is a gift from heaven to the dims. We just need to spotlight barry’s lack of leadership and his policy failures starting with a clean debt ceiling bill.


215 posted on 07/29/2011 8:47:57 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Truth29

I suspect he will pay the generals. And to be honest, the military is so subverted now I doubt they will fight anyway.


216 posted on 07/29/2011 8:49:19 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: kristinn
Obama now lying about debt ceiling, says it does not involve new spending, just paying bills.

He got that line from Robert Reiccccccch.
217 posted on 07/29/2011 8:49:54 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Shaking My Head on a daily basis)
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To: PieterCasparzen; kabar
I don't know why Quinn's "Burning Platform" isn't posted @ FR, but here's an excerpt from ZH:

This Country Defaulted Long Ago

The final collapse of our credit expansion boom approaches. We have a choice over the next week. We could voluntarily abandon further credit expansion by voting for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution or we can raise the debt ceiling, pretend to cut spending far in the future, and allow our currency system to experience a catastrophic final collapse.

We’ll take what’s behind door #2 Johnny. The vested interests in Washington DC and Wall Street only care about power and wealth. They will never abandon credit expansion. It’s their drug. They must have it. They are addicted to it. They will keep injecting it into our system until they overdose America.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-country-defaulted-long-ago

218 posted on 07/29/2011 8:52:50 AM PDT by semantic
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To: markomalley
click here
219 posted on 07/29/2011 8:57:42 AM PDT by Razzz42
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To: markomalley

“TOTUS to speak at 10:20AM”

AGAIN??? He sure loves the sound of his own voice.


220 posted on 07/29/2011 8:58:56 AM PDT by chessplayer
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