Posted on 07/29/2011 6:38:45 AM PDT by LottieDah
On the surface, the current debt limit debate appears to be a traditional argument between Republicans and Democrats over spending and tax priorities and two seemingly incompatible visions about the role of government - a discussion that Americans have been having for more than a century.
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Funny, but I seem to recall a certain Senator from Nevada saying that anything from the House is DOA in the Senate. Who is the real obstructionist?
Nice try to blame the TEA Party members. Obama owns the Obama Depression. It will not end until he leaves office. Nice try to blame the TEA Party members.
Link no work.
Here’s an interesting link:
“Debt ceiling deadlock could lower interest rates”
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/28/news/economy/debt_ceiling_interest_rates/index.htm
Yeah, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah.
The real hostages in this country hold themselves hostage, and they are the electorate for voting the buffoons in Congress, especially the ones with how many terms under their wing?
We all know that the “Rats have very selective memories.
I can imagine Boehner’s closed door negotiations with some of the Tea Party Members.
B: OK, I will put a new expensive project in your district for your vote.
Tea Party Representative: I don’t care.
B: What do you mean you don’t care? This is a really big deal! Most reps would bend over
TPR: Nope, no spending increase.
B: This is crazy. This is not how things work in Washington. I’ll see that you never serve on any committee.
TBP: So what?
B: But what am I going to tell Harry Reid?
Only ONE SINGLE person can end this immediately! The President can sign the CCB passed by the House!
BONER has done a MASTERFUL JOB in running away from his own party’s approved legislation!
The House is the only branch crafting legislation. So far, the Ryan proposal and the CCB have been summarily dismissed by the Senate and the POS. Who again are holding the country “hostage?”
There. Fixed.
Right you are! So all you liberals need to do is present a plan of your own!
Because so far you've offered Bupkis.
Obama threatened to veto the first bill out of the house and the Democrat Senate refused to even take up the bill. Bottom line - Rats don’t want to cap spending and balance the budget. It’s on them.
If boner allows this to go past the 2012 election, a third party should be started immediately and ask the Tea Party congress people to join. Yeah, I know that would make pelosi speaker. NOT if boner and the rinos vote with the new party. If they don’t they’re showing their true colors.
We have GOT to do something about the blatant BIAS and double standard in our media. This headline states the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of what's really happening.
If we do not do something about the propaganda machine we will lose this republic.
The repubs get set up to be the obstructionists. They should have passed one bill with lots of cuts, sent it to the Senate then referred to that bill until the Senate and Pres. did SOMETHING. They choked and panicked.
That Senator from Nevada-and his buddies like a senator from Colorado who wants us to believe “nobody would put us in a place where we are about to default on our debt for partisan politics? IT’s time to cut up the Govt.Credit Cards-tell Washington DC no new spending—No more borrowing -time to pay your debts?
Patriot Post Friday July29 quote form Jefferson letter to Madison 1789 “....neither the legislature nor the the nation itself can validly contract more debt than they may pay within their own age,or within the term of 19yrs....” See entire letter Thomas Jefferson :Writings,Library of America 1984 ,Merrill D.Peterson editor pp.959-964. Letter dated Sep.6,1789
“The Earth Belongs to the Living” wisdom form the Founders that Senator Bennet of Colo.so loaths and fears.
The people who insist that you cannot take more jelly beans out of the jar than were in it are holding this country’s economy hostage. Terrorists!
The government is recklessly holding our country's liberty hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's small business' hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's jobs hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's health care hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's light bulbs hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's property hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's children hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's decency hostage
The government is recklessly holding our country's air travelers hostage
The “Boehner bill” was intended to be the horse on which the “Reid compromise” would ride in the door.
If the Republicans in the Senate hold firm at the 60 vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster, then there will be no Reid compromise.
What’s left = the original House bill that Reid “tabled.”
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