Harry Reid debt ceiling bill to be targeted by House on Saturday (What bill?)

House Republicans will bring up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s debt limit package Saturday just to vote it down, an attempt to show that the legislation is dead in the lower chamber, according to GOP leadership sources.

Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) debt limit package passed the House Friday with 218 votes. The Boehner plan would raise the debt limit by $900 billion, requiring another vote to boost the government’s borrowing authority early next year by another $1.6 trillion.

Reid and other Senate Democratic leaders have already declared the Boehner plan dead-on-arrival in the Senate.

In order to show Reid’s package would face a similar fate in their chamber, House Republicans will do force a vote on Saturday.

Maybe somebody can elucidate and clarify for me.

If the Senate is going to gut whatever the House passes and turn it into a Reid/McConnell bill, why was there a need to pass the latest Boehner bill which passed today?

Why couldn’t Reid use the Cut Cap and Balance Plan (which he tabled) , gut it for their purposes and send that back to the House?

Why did we go through all the agony of passing another bill knowing it was going to be tabled as well?

It’s all Kabuki. This latest bill will be totally liberaled up so that Pelosi’s party could even vote for it when it comes back to the House, and our guys will be left looking like saps because their vote won’t even be needed to pass it. The rinos will help Pelosi push it across.

The only thing accomplished by this charade is that the media and dems got another chance to trash and divide the Tea Party guys in Congress.

I would have just told Harry that we sent them the CCB legislation and let him deal with it. Don’t know why we had to do a re-do.

What bill?...The one Reid et al have been working on in secret to have ready after shooting Boehner's bill down.They want to ride to the rescue, give Obummer his boost til after 2012, blame the Repubs and try to take the credit for saving the country, when they have had the biggest part in destroying it---with a lot of help from old line RINOS.

The Dems have ticked me off so much, they are history as far as I am concerned--local, state, national. And I am one of those "independents" they would love to entice. Of course, I have been onto them for years and have been holding my nose and voting for people like Bob Dole, John McDem.

I honestly do not know how anyone at the grass roots level can support these lying scumbags unless they are from CA, OR, NY.

vaudine

I don’t think you need any “elucidatin”. Sounds like you got it figured out.

I sometimes think the Florida recount was a scam to make us believe our votes counted. Watching this theater that just took place......Are we played for fools every day?

If Boehner takes up Reid’s plan and it passes on a “bi-partisan” (chicken S_ _t) vote, without any Tea Party support, then I’ll BELIEVE BEYOND A DOUBT that our only hope will be 75% Tea Party take over. Could that ever be accomplished?

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