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.
His birhtday party is in jeopardy? His umpteenth vacay at the Vineyahd?
He’s going to threaten again...I can’t see him caving or melting down...at least not until Monday.
SHOW US YOUR PLAN, 0bama.
Does anyone know where I can find a list of the Republicans who say they’ll vote against the bill? I want to congratulate every one of them. I hope my own congressman, Doug Lamborn (R-CO) is among them.
>>> Where have you been? You act like you’re shocked that there’s gambling going on.
Nothing shocks me anymore.
I’m just pointing out the obvious.
It’s ridiculous for the media to blame tea party republicans for a bill defeat when democrats have close to half of the seats in the house.
We hit the spending “limit” over 6 weeks ago
Geithner used federla law to raid federal/military retirement savings fund (TSP- contributory 401K-type) for over $200 billion since June to keep spending
Thus our debt is not at the $14.3 trillion ceiling, but is now over $14.5 trillion
Timmy promised the federal/military workers he’d just put the cookies back in the cookie jar (with interest) when he got his debt ceiling increase
Now, who knows. “By Law” is meaningless with this bunch
It's ridiculous but that doesn't mean it won't happen.
Yeah, does this mean Hussein won’t be 20 minutes late as usual?
#Sen John Cornyn R-TX: “Did Harry Reid just say it was his bill or default? Irresponsible.”
Messing up plans for his birthday bash, ramadan, and his golf schedule. Any fancy end-of-summer vacation plans, particularly one of those expensive foreign outings for the wookie, MIL, and the girls, are probably messed up, too.
Yeah, he won’t be able to hide how ticked off he is.
He’s that fragile.
Could it be?
...that Boehner was this smart to wait until the GDP numbers came out to hammer it home knowing Obmama wanted to get it done BEFORE they came out? Could the squabble be feigned?
...or is it just coincidence and we’re too stupid to use these numbers to help get real cost cutting and CCB passed?
There is a Spock qoute I can’t quite get out of my head that is appropriate here.
Again?
Well, the drive-by’s are lamenting that he’s losing sleep over this debacle, so maybe he’ll come out in his jammies...
#jamiedupree
Sen Reid says he will have to file cloture on his debt limit bill tonight if the House can’t pass anything
#jamiedupree
Sen McConnell rips President Obama for spending time today rolling out new fuel mileage standards
GDP of 1.9 revised to .4 from last month, meaning, this month’s 1.3 will be revised to negative...when was the last time this great country’s GDP contracted???
Is Boehner smart enough - perhaps with help - to postpone the vote on purpose?
Brilliant.
“I resign” is DumBO’s only responsible response.
#debt
“Reid says he will not accept a six month debt limit extension”
This quote should be put in the echo chamber. Why did the US get downgraded? The Senate Blocked all legislation!
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