He's praying...
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.
that would be “Fruit of Ka-boom”.
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“Fellow Americans, this crisis has caused me to spend far too much time away from the golf course. I have another vacation scheduled which means that Congress must get this resolved now. Many millions of Americans are facing the real possibility of losing their government cell phones. I must now go get come ice cream, please call Congress while I select between sherbet or chocolate chip cookie dough.”
Pushing up on 10 minutes late...
Is he on yet? Late again? Don’t see anything yet....
no TV here, please give the play by play..thanks
also, is this on the networks or just cable news?
Picture of empty podium .... thought he was to speak at 10:20 so he’s 10 minutes late.
Late as always.
He's praying...
Pence a yes? Sad.
Can the drinking game be played this early in the morning?
It’s only 7:30 AM here in LA.
Millionaire
Billionaires
Corporate Jets
Shared responsibility
“I”, “I”, “I”, “I”.....
On Drudge, V. Jarrett is quoted as saying O’bummer is not getting any sleep at night...
hmmm...begs MANY questions!
That has been the case of every 0 press conference since 1/20/09
Gotta roll up the prayer rug before he appears on TV
only 15 mins late and counting
Must be changing his golf shoes ....... oh wait, 2 minute warning just given.
Two minute warning given.
Substitute a shot of alcohol for RED BULL :-)
Here’s my problem with all this.
I fully understand holding the line on spending and that this bill is not really doing all that much. However, it’s VERY REASONABLE from a “moderation/compromise” standpoint, and politically is a good thing from the point of view of independents.
If the GOP House fails to pass it, then the Senate will pass a Reid-penned bill, send it to the House, and then if the House votes “yes” - they look somewhat bad, and Obama looks good, but if they vote no, then any consequences that do occur (I do think the markets will TANK among other things if nothing is done) goes right on the GOP. Neither is a pleasant position.
If they “get their asses in line” as Boehner says, at least now if the Senate fails to pass the bill, or Obama vetoes it, then the consequences are on the Democrats. Unless of course they still revise and send back.
We have to remember we only have one half of one branch of government.
Passing Boehner’s bill is not the “end-all” - we can STILL propose the Penny Plan or even CCB itself (w/o the debt ceiling increase) after the fact.
The debt ceiling WILL be raised, so we might as well do it in the most advantageous way possible.
FOX is showing the DJIA in a little box on the screen.
-100.0 points now.
Hope they keep it up while Zero is speaking...
17 min
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