Posted on 10/10/2013 6:05:12 AM PDT by JSDude1
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a shift some Republicans hope will strengthen their hand in the fight over the U.S. debt limit, some of the party's leaders in the House of Representatives are playing down demands to weaken "Obamacare" and focusing instead on calls to rein in deficits.
The emphasis on tackling long-term debt and deficits was evident in opinion pieces published on Wednesday by two of the most prominent House Republicans, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and a former vice presidential candidate.
Ryan's piece in the Wall Street Journal failed to mention Obamacare, the word Republicans coined to describe President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law, while Cantor's article in the Washington Post made only a passing mention as he criticized Obama for refusing to negotiate over the debt limit.
Ryan proposed that Republicans and Democrats work out a plan to curb costly entitlement programs and overhaul the tax code as part of negotiations to end the U.S. government shutdown and raise the country's borrowing limit.
"This isn't a grand bargain," Ryan wrote,
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JOHN BOEHNER:
http://www.speaker.gov/contact
U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 (202) 224-3121 TTY: (202)-225-1904
http://cantor.house.gov/contact
http://paulryan.house.gov/contact/#.UlaltyPn_IU
Obamacare IS the mother of all fiscal issues.
Oh joy! Surrender Caucus want to muddy the waters. Sheesh.
Its all about the Markets... nothing more!
This country is morally bankrupt as well as fiscally. ?.
It always is. Big Business (Wall Street) and the financial movers and shakers have no real problem with Obamacare - if anything, it saves them money because they can shunt their workers off onto the program and no longer need to provide health insurance. Saves them a bundle.
The health insurance companies? They’re gonna make a fortune off this. Imagine you’re selling a product which everyone is ostensibly compelled to purchase. You’re going to have dreams of rolling in a bed full of $100 bills with luscious babes and a mountain of blow the size of K2.
When Wall Street calls the tune down to Capitol Hill......everybody dances.
you know, you can win more than one fight. it’s gotten so bad in washington politics that real men don’t go there any more, we’re stuck with spinless people.
Yes but the question is timing and tactics.
Paul Ryan stepping in to save ObummerCare.
I guess that’s his newest mission, along with pushing amnesty through the House.
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