All Senate Republicans oppose Democratic debt bill

Reuters ^ | Jul 30, 2011 | Andy Sullivan

[mdittmar]

(Reuters) - All 43 Republicans in the Senate have signed a letter, released on Saturday, saying they will not vote for a Democratic plan to raise the debt limit in a sign that the measure does not have the support it needs to advance in Congress.

[mdittmar]

Bite me harry!

[Leroy S. Mort]

So they’ll change the name and vote for it.

[norwaypinesavage]

ALL 43??? Andy can’t count

[Leroy S. Mort]

All 43 Republicans in the Senate..

Last I looked, there were 47 Senators who claimed to be Republican.

[Mygirlsmom]

All 43 Republicans in the Senate have signed a letter, released on Saturday, saying they will not vote for a Democratic plan to raise the debt limit in a sign that the measure does not have the support it needs to advance in Congress.

Lol, even Rooters doesn't consider Snowe, Brown, Collins or Murky to be "Republican"

[comebacknewt]

Wishful thinking from Al-Reuters.

[Cicero]

As clinton would say, it depends what you mean by “all.” Or “Republican.”

[Recovering_Democrat]

All 43, eh? This is what passes for journalism at Reuters nowadays.

[jennings2004]

Well, if 57 states and a couple of more is okay for Dear Leader, why quibble between 43 and 47?.../s

[FlingWingFlyer]

There is no reason for them to kneel and surrender to the commie ‘RATS now. The “media” has already done all the damage to the GOP that they can possibly do. According to the state run “media’s” recent “polls”, the Republicans, not the big spending ‘RATS, are “responsible for this mess”. Why give the “media” toadies the opportunity to carry Stinky Harry Reid off the field on their shoulders while portraying him as the hero of the game? It doesn’t make sense to me.

[Longbow1969]

Last I looked, there were 47 Senators who claimed to be Republican.

In theory. 4 of them don't count though. If I had to guess the 4 who didn't sign were the 2 witches from Maine, RINO Scott Brown and Moocowski.

[okie01]

In theory. 4 of them don't count though. If I had to guess the 4 who didn't sign were the 2 witches from Maine, RINO Scott Brown and Moocowski.

You're assuming they meant to write "43 Republicans in the Senate...".

But what they reported was "All 43 Republicans in the Senate...".

Either Reuters miscounted. Or they miswrote. We don't know which.

[YHAOS]

Let’s wait to see which RINO breaks his word and votes with Harry.

[nhwingut]

All 43 Republican Senators?

LOL. That makes the other 4 officially Republican RINO Senators, I guess.

[boomop1]

Maybe he forgot there are 57 states sarc.

[Mr Rogers]

It is 43:

http://global.nationalreview.com/dest/2011/07/30/reid_2.4_trillion_debt_increase.pdf

[mikrofon]

To paraphrase our Dear Reader, they mean there are 57 STATISTS in the Senate...

[Mike Darancette]

Last I looked, there were 47 Senators who claimed to be Republican.

But 43 is enough, there may even be a RAT or two that will vote the right way.

[WellyP]

You mean Snowe, MooCow and Collins can’t be bribed this time?

[Chaguito]

Perusing the scanned copy of the letter, I cannot find the signatures of the four you mentioned. No Brown, Snowe, Collins, or Murkowski, as far as I can tell.

Looks like you ‘guessed’ well.